Required skill:

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

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Decisiveness, initiative		 Technical ability
Business awareness
Process operation, financial awareness, commercial awareness		 Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

An ability to understand financial statements, and a basic appreciation of the limitations of financial reporting practices and procedures (e.g. financial statement analysis; the relation between cash flow accounting and accrual accounting; discretionary accounting practices; and the nature of accounting measures of financial performance)

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Decisiveness, initiative		 Technical ability
Business awareness
Process operation, financial awareness, commercial awareness		 Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Capacity for the critical evaluation of arguments and evidence

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Listening, questioning
Personal capabilities
Decisiveness, creativity, initiative		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Ability to analyse and draw reasoned conclusions concerning structured and, to a more limited extent, unstructured problems from a given set of data and from data which must be acquired by the student

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail, planning and organising		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Decisiveness, initiative, achievement orientation		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements

Required skill:

Ability to locate, extract and analyse data from multiple sources, including the acknowledgement and referencing of sources

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail, planning and organising		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Decisiveness, initiative, achievement orientation		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements

Required skill:

Numeracy skills including the ability to manipulate financial and other numerical data and to appreciate statistical concepts at an appropriate level

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail, planning and organising		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities Technical ability
Business awareness
Financial awareness, commercial awareness		 Practical elements
Professional expertise

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