Accounting, Finance and Banking - Business as usual? Not at Essex

Business as usual?

Not at Essex Becca Coster becca.coster@essex.ac.uk

Vicki Doughty vdoughty@essex.ac.uk

Welcome to Essex Business School For the next 40 minutes: 

Our school, our ethos and our approach

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Our courses in Accounting, Finance and Banking

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Supporting our students

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Employability matters

Elsewhere today: 

Group interviews and parents briefing

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Tour of EBS building

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Video introduction to Bloomberg Trading Floor

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Meet our students session

About us 

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Our mission is to offer a transformative education and research excellence that has a positive impact on business and society We are located at both the Colchester and Southend campuses We’re a community of more than 2,000 international researchers, students and entrepreneurs from across the world You’re always more than a number to us and we do everything we can to ensure students are supported as individuals throughout their time with us

Our teaching, our research  Essex is a dual-intensive university  Our teaching quality at Essex has been ranked as ‘Gold’ standard (TEF 2017)  Essex Business School is ranked in the UK's top 25 for research excellence (REF 2014)  Our research is embedded in societal trends and informs our teaching

Our research culture Emeritus Professor Prem Sikka Accounting  Trend: Tax havens & corporate governance

Professor Neil Kellard Finance  Trend: The food crisis

Why does this matter to you?  Research-led teaching  Understand society and culture in which business operates  Develop individuals who think critically, act differently, and do better business  Ensure our graduates can apply their knowledge to the real world and make a tangible difference in their organisations

Our courses We’re champions of responsible management and sustainable business and this influences everything we do, particularly our courses:       

BSc Accounting BSc Accounting and Finance BSc Accounting and Management BSc Accounting with Economics BSc Finance BSc Banking and Finance BSc Finance and Management

Teaching and learning  

A common first year covering all aspects of business Examples of modules: Financial Reporting and Analysis International Accounting Financial Modelling Introduction to Banking Portfolio Analysis

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Opportunities to tailor your course Study Abroad Languages for All outside your degree Optional external modules with other Essex departments

Where are our graduates now?

Samuel Baker BSc Banking and Finance (with study abroad year)

Qin Zhou BSc Accounting and Finance

Academic and Professional Skills  Dedicated EBS Learning Team  Run activities that support your studies, improve your grades, provide opportunities to build your CV  Support for placement search and interviews  Train students to deliver opportunities to other students  PAL mentors: maths, Excel and Bloomberg  Student Engagement Team

LEAP student dashboard 

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Shows how you are engaging with your studies PC log-ins, library loans, Moodle access, tap-in registration Keep track of meetings with tutors Help us support you in your studies

Employability  Support for your future from your first term  Central careers centre and bespoke business school activity  Job fairs, conference and employer visits  Internships, research opportunities and start-up advice  One-to-one support and careers advice  EBS Successful Futures

Placements  All EBS courses can include a placement year  Placement is embedded into your studies  Many benefits including: work experience, impressive CV, better grades in final year  Increased success in graduate labour market  Placement year available for all courses  Listen to what some of our placement students said

Any questions?

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