This course is designed to offer the opportunity of acquiring a wide range of valuable skills, which are transferable to the workplace. It will allow participants to gain in depth knowledge and understanding the Financial Services Industry and focus on the roles and skills that are essential to an environment which is characterised by regulation, customer needs, application of ethics and the recognition of risk. Participants will study a number of core modules which will examine the financial services environment, the traditional and contemporary roles and systems within the financial services institutions, law governing the financial services sector and principles and practice of financial advice.