Finance is basically the analysis and study of investments; it deals with two related aspects which are how money is actually managed and the process on how to gain money for specific funds.

It looks at the assets and liabilities and also the uncertainties and risk factors of big industries and businesses, government and corporate.

Finance degrees are often collaborative with other degrees like:

l Accounting

l Management business

l Economics

Finance is a very crucial ingredient for businesses and organizations.

In finance there are many options that one can choose like:

- Financial Analysis

- Risk Management

- Insurance

- Taxation and many more.

With the different courses comes different set of skills and requirements, it varies with every course.

There are set courses for the finance degree but students should consider taking these additional courses to help them understand finance on a deeper level:

l Mathematics

l Economics

l Psychology

l Economics

l Writing

l Communications

l Ethics

These additional courses will really enhance their understanding of finance and can benefit students in many ways, most students who take these courses have an advantage on all the other students who prefer not to take the additional courses. However these additional courses needs to be personally arranged as they are not offered as part of the curricula.

Studying finance and going into a finance field is a major responsibility. Financial managers, advisors, etc have a lot riding on them as they manage the cash flow of the company or the business and have to be able to spot financial risks that may occur in the future or the near future, hey have to make decisions that will affect a lot of things so they have to be as accurate as possible.

These are some of the main courses of finance:

l Corporate Finance – this course gives an introduction to methods and theory of corporate finance.

l Monetary Economics and the Global Economy – deals with macroeconomics.

l Business Economics – goes into details for microeconomics and macroeconomics and growth issues.

l International Banking – international financial institutions.

l International Corporate Finance – problems the corporate is faced with because of international relations.

l International Financial Markets – financial markets and exchange rates.

l Fixed Income Securities – the intensive study of fixed income and many more other aspects.

l Funding Investments – corporate securities that can be used to pay for investments.

l Behavioural Finance – deals with the financial markets.

l Financial Economics and many more.