Financial Management

This programme is ideal for those seeking a management career in the finance area. It is ideally suited to students with a business, economics or numerate background. The first half of the taught section focuses heavily on core areas of finance; it also provides an intensive course in accounting for those students who do not have an accounting background. The second half of the programme allows students to choose from a wide range of specialist finance options, and these are supported by a core course in financial markets.

Aims of the programme

• To enable students to become competent and thoughtful practitioners in the wider field of finance
• To develop students' reflective, critical and evaluative thinking and judgement and to expose them to the contemporary issues in the field through teaching that is strongly supported by research and professional practice
• To provide an intellectually demanding academic programme of study which emphasises the students' ability to analyse, synthesise and evaluate key theoretical concepts and practical applications in the accounting and finance subject area
• To provide a flexible programme which delivers a strong theoretical underpinning in finance through compulsory courses and which enables students to pursue coherently related areas of specialism by selecting particular options and a dissertation title

Content

• Financial Management (15 credits)
• International Corporate Finance (15 credits)
• International Capital Markets (15 credits)
• Foundations of Scholarship (15 credits)
• Research Methods (15 credits)
• Dissertation (45 credits)

One option (15 credits) chosen from:

• Management Accounting
• Financial Accounting

Three 15-credit options (45 credits) chosen from:

• Accounting and Business Ethics in the Corporate Environment (MSc only)
• Financial Modelling
• Risk Management (MSc only)
• Portfolio Management
• European and International Financial Institutions
• Behavioural Finance
• Micro-Finance in International Development
• Project Finance
• Financial Trading Techniques
• Financial Analysis