Dr Paula Lopes Cocco

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. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

This course cannot be taken with AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance.

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

This course includes an introduction to: the financial decisions of firms, in particular capital budgeting; the financial decisions of households; the role of the financial system in the economy and the flow of funds; causes and consequences of the recent financial crises.

10 hours of lectures and 9 hours of classes in the WT. 1 hour of classes in the ST.

Classwork exercises will be set each week. Two classworks will be marked by class teachers.

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

Hillier et al (2022) Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, European Edition, McGraw-Hill.

Cecchetti et al (2021) Money, banking and financial markets, McGraw-Hill.

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

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the spring exam period.