FM101      Half Unit
Finance

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Dr Paula Lopes

Availability

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Accounting and Finance and BSc in Management. This course is available on the BSc in Data Science, BSc in Mathematics, Statistics and Business, Erasmus Reciprocal Programme of Study and Exchange Programme for Students from University of California, Berkeley. This course is freely available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. It does not require permission. This course is freely available to General Course students. It does not require permission.

This course is not capped, any eligible student that requests a place will be given one.

Course content

This course includes an introduction to: the financial decisions of firms, in particular capital budgeting and financing; the financial decisions of households; the role of the financial system in the economy.

Teaching

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the Winter Term.

Formative assessment

Classwork exercises will be set each week. 

 

Indicative reading

The main readings for this course are selected chapters from two textbooks available from the LSE library:   

Corporate Finance by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo, 6th edition, Pearson.

Money, Banking and Financial Markets by Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill.
 

A few additional readings will be discussed during the lectures and posted on Moodle for downloading.

Assessment

Exam (90%), duration: 120 Minutes in the Spring exam period

Continuous assessment (10%)


Key facts

Department: Finance

Course Study Period: Winter Term

Unit value: Half unit

FHEQ Level: Level 4

CEFR Level: Null

Total students 2024/25: 513

Average class size 2024/25: 38

Capped 2024/25: No
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Personal development skills

  • Self-management
  • Problem solving
  • Application of information skills
  • Application of numeracy skills
  • Commercial awareness
  • Specialist skills