Taught in the Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), our three-year joint honours Finance and Economics degree provides an academic foundation for anyone interested in a career in management and finance. Your Finance studies cover capital markets, investment decision-making and option pricing. Your degree will also require you to study financial statement analysis. In Economics, you will study micro-economics at an individual and market level and focus on national economies at the macro-economic level. You will also take a rigorous look at wider contemporary economic issues, such as the crisis in banking, failures in corporate governance, fairness in organisations, CEO salaries and incentives in organisations. You will also spend your third year undertaking an industrial placement.