Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Insurance

Skills

Basic Competences

• That students have demonstrated to possess and understand knowledge in a study area that starts from the base of general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that imply knowledge coming from the vanguard of their field of study.
• That students know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of study.
• That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their area of study) to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
• That students can transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to a specialized or non-specialized public.
• That the students have developed the necessary learning skills to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

General Competences

• Adequately manage, organize and plan time at work related to finance and insurance.
• Develop interpersonal skills: empathy, tolerance and respect for diversity, for its application to finance and insurance.
• Develop the ability to learn and autonomy in learning knowledge in finance and insurance.
• Master economic and business terminology, and use it in the appropriate contexts of finance and insurance.
• Be able to adapt to new situations, in the environment of finance and insurance.
• Be able to manage information related to finance and insurance: obtaining, selecting and analyzing information from various sources.
• Identify the relevant elements for decision making in the environment of finance and insurance.
• Apply knowledge in practice, obtaining results that lead to the resolution of problems, specifically in the field of finance and insurance.
• Develop critical reasoning in aspects of finance and insurance.
• Search for excellence and quality in the development of tasks in the field of finance and insurance.
• Actively participate in interdisciplinary and international finance and insurance teams.
• Know the general principles and the historical evolution of the processes related to the economic activity and the company.

Specific Competences

• Identify the most relevant financial and insurance information sources and their content.
• Know the financial fundamentals of business activity.
• Identify relevant financial problems in relation to the allocation of resources in general.
• Provide rationality to the analysis and description of any aspect of financial reality.
• Issue advisory reports on financial and insurance situations specific to the economy (international, national or regional) or sectors related to it.
• Know and understand the operation of the main financial and insurance institutions, both European and international
• Select and use quantitative and qualitative information from diverse sources, including regulators of markets and institutions or supranational organizations.
• Use the appropriate conceptual and regulatory framework to address a financial or insurance sector problem.
• Analyze the economic situation of companies through the relevant information (accounting, financial, strategic).
• Be able to understand and transmit information on economic-financial aspects in Spanish and/or English and applied to the area of finance or insurance sector.
• Know and apply the support tools for financial management functions, to define, implement and control company policies.
• Know and use mathematical techniques that allow modeling and solving problems in the financial-actuarial, business environment.
• Be able to efficiently use the appropriate computer resources for writing reports or solving problems.
• Obtain relevant information through the use of databases and other sources specific to the financial or insurance areas.
• Apply the knowledge acquired in the undergraduate degree to successfully prepare, write, present and defend the Final Research Project, thus demonstrating that the competences inherent to the degree have been achieved.
• Understand and apply the public regulatory rules of the fiscal processes of the financial markets and insurance entities.
• Identify and solve financial, commercial and risk management problems, in the framework of decision making, asset valuation and advice in the financial area of any company and insurers.
• Identify financial instruments, distinguishing financial assets from financial liabilities, and assess them based on the accounting criteria that are determined in the various existing regulations in the financial and insurance sectors.
• Use quantitative tools for the analysis of conflicting situations between agents, both at a competitive and cooperative level.