This document provides information about the BA (Hons) Business & Finance degree offered by IBS in Mauritius. The 3-year degree program provides students with sound financial knowledge in a business context, allowing specialization in areas like marketing. Graduates will be prepared for careers as financial managers or in related fields due to gaining both general business knowledge and specialist skills. The degree features guest lectures, work experience opportunities, and teaching staff with professional experience. Coursework covers foundation subjects in the first year and becomes more specialized in finance and business in the second and third years.

1. BA (Hons) Business &
Finance
ibs.ac.mu
(Coventry University)
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Email: enquiries@ibs.ac.mu
The core theme throughout this degree is to provide you with sound financial knowledge, placed in a
business context while also allowing you to specialise in areas such as marketing.
Career Prospect
Upon completion you will be well placed for a wide variety of careers as a financial manager in business and
the financial sector. Your general business knowledge and specialist knowledge in fields like marketing will
be enhanced.
With the academic knowledge you will acquire on the course and the option of a year out in an industry
setting, you be well prepared to start a career in business or finance.
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Special Features
• Guest lectures will deliver sessions with students in commercial awareness, employability and working in
the accountancy profession
• Opportunities to undertake relevant work experience involving business and finance functions in private
and public organizations.
• Access to teaching staff who have relevant professional qualifications and commercial backgrounds,
who bring this experience into their teaching
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Course Structure
During your first year you will study the foundation subjects of business and finance including business
accounting, business organisations and marketing as well as modules to develop your numeracy and IT
skills. This theme continues in the second year with a greater emphasis on finance, business management
and applied marketing. Research skills are also developed in this year in preparation for a final year research
project on a topic of your own choosing. In the final year of study, a wide range of optional modules in finance
and business are available enabling you to choose a specialist path you may wish to follow in your career.

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Course Duration
For full time study, course duration is 3 years.
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Email: enquiries@ibs.ac.mu
Modules
Year 1
• Research Skills for Marketing
• Introduction to Marketing
• Introduction to Business Accounting
• Introduction to Personal Finance
• Introduction to Business Organisation
• Data Analysis Skills for Economics and Accountancy
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Year 2
• Principles of Marketing
• Principles of Financial Invesment
• Financial Reporting and Analysis
• Economics of Banking and Finance
• Accounting Information Systems
• Financial Services
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Year 3
• Financial Management
• Investment Analysis
• Corporate Governance
• International Business Strategy
• Advanced Study for Accounting