Finance
What is Finance?
Finance centers on the basic principles of the business world and deals with how individuals or businesses use their resources over time. It is about finding the most effective way to use the money you have, the money you'll make, and the money you'll spend. Studying finance will help you with many important aspects of business, such as investment decisions. Knowledge of finance will tell you what investment opportunities will earn the most money and how individuals and businesses can maximize profits.
What Can You Be With a BBA in Finance?
Your BBA will prepare you for high demand, high-paying careers in the business world. In New Brunswick, for example, there is a high demand for construction supervisors, project managers and financial estimators. There are also many high-salary management positions available within the province’s energy sector. Opportunities exist in virtually every sector around the world.
- Financial Assistant
- Financial Estimator
- Associate Accountant
- Financial Advisor
- Mortgage Sales Associate
- Financial Estimator
- Loan/Mortgage Officer
- Entrepreneur
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With additional education/training or experience…
- Chief Financial Officer
- Financial Planner
- Fund Manager
- Investment/Securities Analyst
- Chartered Accountant (CA)
- Certified General Accountant (CGA)
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
- Professor/Teacher
- Lawyer
Where Can You Work?
Our graduates have found exciting, satisfying jobs around the world:
- Financial Planner, Anderson Financial Services
- Director of Finance, Coast Tire
- Chartered Accountant, Grant Thornton
- CA and Manager of Assurance and Business Advisory Services, Grant Thornton
- Financial System Analyst, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
- Managing Partner, Deloitte & Touche
- Lead Corporate Analyst, Syncrude Canada Ltd.
- Senior Accountant, KPMG
You will be prepared to work in your own entrepreneurial venture or to enter management positions in financial departments of business enterprises and other organizations, including:
- Public Accounting Firms
- Personal and Commercial Banking
- Investment Firms
- Asset Management Firms
- Corporations (Finance, Development, Strategic Planning, for example)
- Governments (Treasury Department, Finance, for example)
- Insurance Companies
- Securities
What Skills Can You Develop?
You will learn all the business skills you need to meet the challenges of the fast-paced world of business. Focusing your studies in finance allows you to gain key subject-specific skills. You can also offer employers valuable transferable skills that will help you in whatever career you choose.
Specific Knowledge Skills
- Knowledge of changing global economic situations and the implications on financial planning and decision-making
- Understanding of capital markets and the financial institutions that operate in those markets
- Skills to manage assets and liabilities of a publicly owned business enterprise
- Analysis and management of financial assets (“securities”)
- Use of mathematical and numerical models to predict risk and simulate situations for planning/analysis
- Ability to analyze business/financial options including resources, market trends, business requirements and new opportunities
- Understanding of how to forecast trends using financial/economic factors
Valuable Transferable Skills
- Communication skills: Identify, access, compile and organize data; interpret data and prepare presentations and reports using current technology
- Teamwork skills: Work effectively with others, identify your role and contribute to meetings and the goals of a project
- Interpersonal skills: Understand group dynamics, human relations and effective negotiation
- Management skills: Oversee a project and determine goals, make decisions, assign roles and ensure completion of tasks
- Organizational skills – Set priorities, manage workloads and project deadlines
- Professional skills: Demonstrate ethical behaviour and professionalism, exercise accountability and sound judgment
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Critical and creative thinking
Professional Associations & Resources
Professional associations can be a great way to meet, learn from and network with professionals in your field of interest. Some associations offer student memberships, often at a reduced rate. Below is a sample of professional associations and industry-related websites you can explore.
- Association for Financial Professionals Canada
- Association of Women in Finance
- Canadian Academic Accounting Association
- Canadian Bankers Association
- Canadian Securities Institute
- Certified General Accountant Association of Canada
- Certified Management Accountants
- Chartered Accountants of Canada
- Chartered Financial Analysts Institute
- Financial Executives International
- Investment Funds Institute of Canada
- Certified Financial Planners
- Wetfeet
Contact the Faculty
UNB Faculty of Business Administration
University of New Brunswick
PO Box 4400
255 Singer Hall
7 Macauley Lane
Fredericton NB E3B 5A3
