SECTION 3 – BUSINESS, ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING SPECIALISED DEGREES
BA Finance CAO Code: MH401 FIN | CAO Points 2021: 370 CAO Code: MH401 FIN CAO Points 2021: 370 CAO Points Range 2020: 357-613 Places 2021: 60 (MH401) Duration: 3 years years (4 years with placement and/or Erasmus/Study Abroad)
Erasmus/Study Abroad Option: Yes Mature Applicants: See p. 208 UK, EU & International Applicants: See p. 214 QQI Link: See p. 210 Placement Option: Yes - subject to availability
Leaving Certificate: 2H5 & 4O6/H7, Irish, English & O4/H7 Mathematics OPC: Open Choice Option Up to 4 weeks to decide on MH401 degree stream (entry requirements apply)
>Potentially > pursue a career in finance with this degree.
Options after graduation?
>Learn > how the financial system works – how assets are
Finance graduates have strong numeracy skills, coupled with an ability to think critically and analytically – invaluable assets in a wide range of professions. Graduates can be found in the banking and financial services industry, economic consultancy, finance units of public and private sector organisations, financial research, journalism and teaching. Many of our students continue to further postgraduate study in a very wide range of Business subjects at Maynooth University or another leading university in Ireland or abroad.
traded, international markets are linked, government policy decisions affect the economy and how financial markets respond. >Understand > why currencies rise and fall, stock markets boom and bust, property values soar and crash and why interest rates fluctuate.
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Why choose this degree? >You’re > considering a career in financial management or banking. >You > would like to have the option of studying another subject as a Minor. >You’re > interested in learning how to use analytical tools - including mathematics, deductive logic and applied statistics – to examine problems and devise logical solutions.
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You might also like MH101: Finance in the Bachelor of Arts degree p. 66 MH401 IFE: BA International Finance and Economics p. 129 MH402: BSc Quantitative Finance p. 130 MH403: BA Accounting and Finance p. 131 MH415: BSc Economics p. 139
Course structure 1st year
2nd year and Final year
Finance and Economics are the major elements of your degree. Study of Finance begins in 2nd year as students first require an introduction to the principles of how markets work and how money and finance interact with the economy. >>15 credits of Economics, 7.5 credits of Accounting, 7.5 credits of Mathematics >>Option to take a further 7.5 credits of Mathematics >>Optional (but recommended) extra 7.5 credits of Accounting in the 2nd semester >>Choose 1 subject including Critical Skills from groups 1, 2 and 5 – maximum one per group (see p. 45 for subject groups)
Students choose from these options (a) or (b): (a) Choose between the Single Major and Major/Minor routes to degree level. Single Major: about 50% of modules are compulsory and are in Finance and the parts of Economics important to Finance. There are a lot of optional modules in Economics, and depending on your choices in the 2nd semester of 1st year you may take further modules in Financial Accounting and/or Mathematics.
(b) Switch to the BA Accounting and Finance degree (MH403). MH401 is a sister degree to MH403 BA Accounting and Finance, with many modules in common. Side steps between the two degrees are allowed at the end of 1st year, depending on the 1st year optional modules chosen.
Major/Minor: approximately 33% of your time is spent with the Minor subject, and you take fewer modules in Finance and Economics, though the core modules are still compulsory. Minor subjects to choose from include Business, Computer Science, Criminology, Geography, German, History, Law, Mathematical Studies, Music, Philosophy, Sociology or Spanish. You must have completed 15 credits in the subject in 1st year to be eligible for the Major/Minor. BA Finance students may choose to take a year out between 2nd and final year either on placement (subject to availability) or studying abroad.
Students can switch to MH403 Accounting and Finance degree at the end of first year provided 22.5 credits of Accounting are taken in 1st year and you attain 60% if you did not have the required CAO points for entry to MH403. Those who are reasonably certain they wish for a career in Accounting should consider MH403 or MH407 both of which maximise Accounting exemptions. However modules such as Money and Banking, and Financial Institutions are not available to specialist Accountants (MH403). Some exemptions are available to those who choose to study Financial Accounting in all three years through MH401, taking either Finance (FIN) or International Finance and Economics (IFE).
1st year
2nd year
Final year
>>Economics, Macroeconomics, Mathematics and Accounting >>Optional 15 credit Critical Skills (see p. 12 for details)
>>Corporate Finance, Financial Management, Econometrics, Financial Markets and Institutions, Money and Banking, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Financial Modelling >>Optional 10 credit Electives (see p. 13 for details).
Investments, Derivative Securities, Ethics and Corporate Governance, Advanced Financial Modelling, Fixed Income Markets, Econometrics, International Finance, Irish Economy, Finance Thesis.
Maynooth Education Critical Skills Option / Electives Option (see p. 12 for details)
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