Bachelor of Economics (Finance)

The Finance program is committed to educating students with a solid foundation of financial and economics knowledge, skills, methodology and theory. The program also aims to train students to be professional in the most contemporary forms of finance, which prepares them to pursue challenging careers in the financial sector as investment bankers, financial engineers, hedge fund managers, policy advisors for China’s financial reforms and innovative entrepreneurs in the finance industry. This program not only provides a strong foundation for critical thinking, entrepreneurship, and global vision, but also develops innovative and visionary talents to solve the practical problems of China’s financial reforms.
1. Have a basic understanding of classic theory, growth theory and business cycles theory, should be able to employ qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze and explain to others how various behaviors of economic agents and government policies can be explained by economics.
2. Students will be able to explain basic Corporate Finance concepts, such as time value of money and risk-return trade-off, evaluate firms’ capital budgeting projects, dividend policy and capital structure, Read and analyse financial statements. Evaluate financial statements of a listed company.
3. You need to be familiar with commonly used financial database such as WIND (China) and WRDS (Global data), and master some statistical packages such as SAS, Matlab or R. You will be required to apply methods to do your own empirical work. To learn hands-on skills in investment .Econometrically model the real economic problems and interpret empirical findings.