BU5566 - Securities and Investment Regulation and Practice

Credit Points: 15

Course Co-ordinator: Professor Roger Buckland

Pre-requisite(s): Students must be registered for Postgraduate programmes in Finance and Investment Management, Accounting & Finance or Corporate Finance and have successfully completed the Semester 1 courses.

Co-requisite(s): None

Note(s): None

The aim of this course is to provide students with the capacity to understand the forces governing financial behaviour in contemporary securities markets and to provide the techniques and practical tools for the analysis of financial statements.


The main recommended texts for the course are:
Fell, L. (2000), An Introduction to Financial Products and Markets, Continuum. ISBN 0-8264-4886.
Valdez, S. (2003), An Introduction to Global Financial Markets, Palgrave, ISBN: 1-4th edition, 4039-0012-4.
Students are also advised to refer to the material from the Handbooks in Central Banking , Centre of Central Banking Studies Handbook and Lecture series. Both series can be found on the Bank of England web site at www.bankofengland.co.uk

12 x 2hr lectures, 11 x 1 hr seminar

2 hour written examination (80%); group report 3000 words (20%)