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Module ASB-2502:
Professor John Ashton

Module Facts

Run by Bangor Business School

20.000 Credits or 10.000 ECTS Credits

Semester 2

Organiser: Mr Ian Roberts

Overall aims and purpose

The module will introduce the main elements of personal financial management and retail banking. The module is aimed at all 2nd year undergraduate students both within the business school and the wider university which have an interest in improving the ways in which they can manage their finances, enhance their financial capability and navigate retail financial services markets. The module is suitable for all persons interested in both their own personal finances and also the provision of personal financial services in the UK and internationally. The module is focused on both developing key skills in managing personal finances as well as assisting an individual to navigate decision making at a time where individuals face increasing responsibility for their financial actions.

Course content

The lecture programme will outline the principle areas of content with specific skills honed within the seminars. The lecture programme will be introduced through considering the importance of personal finance education, the need for financial literacy, a knowledge of retail banking markets and how this relates to the student and graduate experience. The module provides consideration as to the form and use of different financial services encountered in life including debt, pensions, insurance, savings and investments. Students will explore how these markets operate and are regulated. Lastly there is consideration of how to financial customers make decisions in financial services markets, how decision making may be enhnanced and how customers can be mislead by current sales techniques employed by the financial services industry.

Assessment Criteria

good

B- to B+ (60-69%): Very good performance Most of the relevant information accurately deployed. Good grasp of theoretical/conceptual/practical elements. Good integration of theory/practice/information in pursuit of the assessed work's objectives. Evidence of the use of creative and reflective skills.

threshold

D- to D+ (40-49%): No major omissions or inaccuracies in the deployment of information/skills. Some grasp of theoretical/conceptual/practical elements. Integration of theory/practice/information present intermittently in pursuit of the assessed work's objectives.

excellent

A- to A+ (70%+): Outstanding performance. The relevant information accurately deployed. Excellent grasp of theoretical/conceptual/practice elements. Good integration of theory/practice/information in pursuit of the assessed work's objectives. Strong evidence of the use of creative and reflective skills.

C- to C+

C- to C+ (50-59%): Much of the relevant information and skills mostly accurately deployed. Adequate grasp of theoretical/conceptual/practical elements. Fair integration of theory/practice/information in the pursuit of the assessed work's objectives. Some evidence of the use of creative and reflective skills.

Learning outcomes

  1. Extend personal financial management skills and knowledge.

  2. Provide financial knowledge of services provided by the financial services and retail banking industry including insurance, loans, mortgages, pensions and investments.

  3. Foster understanding of the sources and applications of finance while a student and a graduate.

  4. Develop a critical comprehension of how commonly used financial services are used, priced and sold.

  5. Cultivate a greater level of financial literacy.

  6. Develop insight into the cost of borrowing and the implications of debt.

Assessment Methods

Type Name Description Weight
Personal Finance and Banking Essay 50.00
Examination 50.00

Teaching and Learning Strategy

Hours
Private study

The module requires additional private study from the textbook and additional materials signposted within the teaching sessions.The lectures and seminars will supplemented by 168 hours of private study. This will be guided by directed readings in the text book and from additional materials suggested in the classes to inform both the seminars and also the module learning more generally.

168
Lecture

The lecture programme will outline the principal areas of personal finance and banking content within the module. There will be 11 lectures of 2 hours duration.

22
Seminar

Specific skills related to personal finance and banking will be honed within the seminars.There will be 10 seminars of 1 hour duration.

10

Transferable skills

  • Literacy - Proficiency in reading and writing through a variety of media
  • Numeracy - Proficiency in using numbers at appropriate levels of accuracy
  • Self-Management - Able to work unsupervised in an efficient, punctual and structured manner. To examine the outcomes of tasks and events, and judge levels of quality and importance
  • Exploring - Able to investigate, research and consider alternatives
  • Information retrieval - Able to access different and multiple sources of information
  • Inter-personal - Able to question, actively listen, examine given answers and interact sentistevely with others
  • Critical analysis & Problem Solving - Able to deconstruct and analyse problems or complex situations. To find solutions to problems through analyses and exploration of all possibilities using appropriate methods, rescources and creativity.
  • Presentation - Able to clearly present information and explanations to an audience. Through the written or oral mode of communication accurately and concisely.
  • Management - Able to utilise, coordinate and control resources (human, physical and/or financial)
  • Argument - Able to put forward, debate and justify an opinion or a course of action, with an individual or in a wider group setting
  • Self-awareness & Reflectivity - Having an awareness of your own strengths, weaknesses, aims and objectives. Able to regularly review, evaluate and reflect upon the performance of yourself and others

Subject specific skills

  • An understanding of the factors influencing the investment behaviour and opportunities of private individuals (bonds, equities, and derivatives; risk aversion; risk/return trade-offs; portfolio management and performance measurement; pensions and long term savings; the tax treatment of savings and investments; international diversification; forex risk; objectives of and constraints on institutional investors and advisors).
  • An understanding of financial service activity in the economy, and an appreciation of how finance theory and evidence can be employed to interpret these services (for example, information asymmetry, adverse selection and moral hazard could be employed to analyse the fundamental nature of services, such as insurance, pensions, bank lending and consumer credit, and also explore fundamental problems arising in such financial service provision. Efficient market hypothesis could be used to explore evidence for fund manager performance and the effectiveness of equity and bond saving services).
  • Problem solving and critical analysis: analysing facts and circumstances to determine the cause of a problem and identifying and selecting appropriate solutions.
  • Articulating and effectively explaining information.
  • Conceptual and critical thinking, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Resources

Resource implications for students

A textbook purchase is recommended.

Talis Reading list

http://readinglists.bangor.ac.uk/modules/asb-2502.html

Reading list

Currently Talis list listed as for ASB 2415. https://rl.talis.com/3/bangor/lists/A7A2E9FD-DA71-B769-32DE-1E15B3690087.html?lang=en&login=1

Core text: Callaghan, G., Fribbance, I and Higginson, H. (2006) Personal Finance, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.

Supplementary reading Redhead, K. (2008) Personal Finance and Investments. A Behavioural Finance Perspective, Routledge, London.

Additional reading.
Agarwal, S., Driscoll, J. C., Gabaix, X, and Laibson, D. (2009). “The Age of Reason: Financial Decision over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation”, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall, pp.51-117.

Autor , D. H. (2014). “Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99%”, Science, 344, pp. 843-851.

Avery, C. and Turner, S. (2012). “Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much – Or Not Enough?”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(1), pp.165-192.

Babutsidze, Z. (2012). “How Do Consumers Make Choices? A Survey Of Evidence”, Journal of Economic Surveys Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 752–762.

Black, J. and Nobles, R. (1998) “Personal Pensions Mis-selling: The Causes And Lessons Of Regulatory Failure”, Modern Law Review, vol.61, no.6, pp. 789-820.

Browning, M. and Crossley, T. F. (2001). “The Life Cycle Model of Consumption and saving”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol.15, no.3, pp.3.-22.

Callender, C. and Jackson, J. (2008). Does the fear of debt constrain choice of university and subject of study?”, Studies in Higher Education, 33(4), pp. 405-429.

Cohn, A., Ferh, E. and Maréchal, A. (2014). Business cultures and dishonesty in the banking industry”, Nature, vol.516, no.4, pp. 86-89.

Drucker, P.F. (1991). “Reckoning with the Pension Fund Revolution”, Harvard Business Review, March – April, pp.106-114.

Elliehausen, G. (2008). “Implications of Behavioral Research for the Use and Regulation of Consumer Credit Products”, Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.

Elliott, W. and Lewis, M. (2015). “ Student Debt Effects on Financial Well-Being”, Journal of Economic Surveys, 29(4): 614-636. (US orientated yet interesting all the same)

Ericson, R. V and Doyle, A. (2006). “The Institutionalization of Deceptive Sales in Life Insurance”, British Journal of Criminology, vol.46, pp.993-1010.

Guiso, L. (2012). “Trust and Risk Aversion in the Aftermath of the Great Recession”, European Business Organization Law Review, Vol.13, no.2, pp 195–209.

Guthrie, C. P. and Nicholls, C. M. (2015). “The Personal Budget Project: A Practical introduction to financial literacy”, Journal of Accounting Education, 33: 138-163. (US orientated yet interesting all the same)

Hill, R. P. and Kosup, J. C. (2007). “Consumer Experiences with Predatory Lending Practices”, The Journal of Consumer Affairs, vol. 41, no. 1, pp.29-46.

Llewellyn, D. (1999). “The Economic Rationale for Financial Regulation”, FSA Occasional Paper 1, April.

Luigina Canova, L, Rattazzi A. M. M. and Webley, P. (2005). “The hierarchical structure of saving motives”, Journal of Economic Psychology, vol.26, pp. 21–34.

Moloney N. (2010). Regulating the Retail Markets: Law, Policy, and the Financial Crisis” Current Legal Problems, vol. 63, No.1, pp.375-447.

Perry, V. G. And Motley, C. M. (2009). “Where’s The Fine Print? Advertising And the Mortgage Market Crisis”, California Management Review, vol. 52, no. 1, pp.29-44.

Prelec, D. and Loewenstein, G. (1998). “The Red and Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt”, Marketing Science, vol.17, no.1, pp.4-28.

Stango, V. and Zinman, J. (2009). “What Do Consumers Really Pay on Their Checking and Credit Card Accounts? Explicit, Implicit, and Avoidable Costs”, American Economic Review, vol.99, No.2, pp.424–429.

Wei, S.J and Zhang, X. (2011). “The Competitive Saving Motive: Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China”, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 119, no. 3, pp. 511-564.

Courses including this module

Compulsory in courses:

  • NR33: BA Banking/Italian year 2 (BA/BIT)
  • NR34: BA Banking/Spanish year 2 (BA/BSP)
  • NR31: BA French/Banking year 2 (BA/FRB)
  • NR32: BA German/Banking year 2 (BA/GB)
  • NN44: BSc Accounting and Banking with International Experience year 2 (BSC/ABIE)
  • NN43: BSc Accounting and Banking year 2 (BSC/ACCB)
  • NN46: BSc Accounting and Banking (4 year with Incorp Found) year 2 (BSC/ACCB1)
  • NN3F: BSc Accounting and Banking year 2 (BSC/ACCBF)
  • NN3P: BSc Acc & Banking with Place Yr year 2 (BSC/ACCBP)
  • 8V55: BSc Banking and Finance (with International Experience) year 2 (BSC/BFIE)
  • N391: BSc Banking and Finance year 2 (BSC/BFIN)
  • N39B: BSc Banking and Finance (4 year w Incorporated Foundation) year 2 (BSC/BFIN1)
  • N39F: Banking and Finance year 2 (BSC/BFINF)
  • N39P: BSc Banking and Finance with Placement Year year 2 (BSC/BFINP)
  • N324: BSc Banking and Finance (Bangor International College) year 2 (BSC/BICBF)
  • N312: BSc Banking with Financial Tech year 2 (BSC/BKFT)

Optional in courses:

  • N107: BA Business year 2 (BA/BUS)
  • NL41: BSc Accounting and Economics year 2 (BSC/ACCEC)
  • NL4B: BSc Accounting and Economics (4 year with Incorp Foundation) year 2 (BSC/ACCEC1)
  • NL4F: BSc Accounting and Economics year 2 (BSC/ACCECF)
  • NL4P: BSc Accounting and Economics with Placement Year year 2 (BSC/ACCECP)
  • NN4J: BSc Accounting and Finance (4 year with Incorp Found) year 2 (BSC/ACCF1)
  • NN4H: BSc Accounting and Finance year 2 (BSC/ACCFIN)
  • NN4F: BSc Accounting and Finance year 2 (BSC/ACCFINF)
  • N402: BSc Accounting & Finance (with International Experience) year 2 (BSC/ACCFINIE)
  • NN4P: BSc Accounting and Finance with Placement Year year 2 (BSC/ACCFINP)
  • NL42: BSc Accounting and Economics with International Experience year 2 (BSC/AEIE)
  • L190: BSc Business Economics year 2 (BSC/BEC)
  • L19B: BSc Business Economics (4 year with Incorporated Foundation) year 2 (BSC/BEC1)
  • L19F: BSc Business and Economics year 2 (BSC/BECF)
  • L191: BSc Business Economics with International Experience year 2 (BSC/BECIE)
  • L19P: BSc Business Economics with Placement Year year 2 (BSC/BECP)
  • N406: BSc Accounting and Finance (Bangor International College) year 2 (BSC/BICAF)
  • L192: BSc Business Economics (Bangor International College) year 2 (BSC/BICBE)
  • N202: BSc Business Man & Finance (Bangor Uni International Coll) year 2 (BSC/BICBMF)
  • N106: BSc Business Stud & Finance (Bangor International College) year 2 (BSC/BICBSF)
  • L193: BSc Financial Economics (Bangor International College) year 2 (BSC/BICFE)
  • NN23: BSc Business Management and Finance year 2 (BSC/BMF)
  • NN2B: BSc Business Man & Finance (4 year with Incorp Foundation) year 2 (BSC/BMF1)
  • NN2F: BSc Business Management and Finance year 2 (BSC/BMFINF)
  • NN2P: Business Management and Finance with Placement Year year 2 (BSC/BMFP)
  • NN1H: BSc Business Studies and Finance year 2 (BSC/BSFIN)
  • NN1J: BSc Business Studies and Finance (4 year with Incorp Found) year 2 (BSC/BSFIN1)
  • IN00: BSc Computer Information Systems for Business year 2 (BSC/CISB)
  • IN0B: BSc Computer Information Sys for Bus (4 year w Incorp Found) year 2 (BSC/CISB1)
  • IN02: BSc Computer Information Systems for Business (Franchised) year 2 (BSC/CISBF)
  • L112: BSc Financial Economics with International Experience year 2 (BSC/FEIE)
  • L111: BSc Financial Economics year 2 (BSC/FINEC)
  • L11B: BSc Financial Economics (4 year w Incorporated Foundation) year 2 (BSC/FINEC1)
  • L11F: BSc Financial Economics year 2 (BSC/FINECF)
  • L11P: BSc Financial Economics with Placement Year year 2 (BSC/FINECP)

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