Objectives
Our programme is designed for aspiring financial professionals. We can help you accelerate your career prospects by sharpening your analytical and critical reasoning skills, and honing your proficiency in financial knowledge and techniques both in national and global economics. The programme aims: -to help you to develop skills, competencies, knowledge, and understanding demanded by a complex financial environment -to enhance problem-solving skills in corporate financial management -to foster an understanding of the global financial environment, with particular reference to stock markets and institutional issues, and the implications of this for financial management decisions and policies -to develop an understanding of the implications of a firm"s financial strategies on investor income, wealth and risk -to develop an understanding of the complex, diverse and international nature of financial management -to promote in-depth knowledge and understanding of financial management decisions and policies -to meet the needs of commerce, industry and society in producing postgraduates with high analytical skills and a critical appreciation of financial issues and their implications -to provide you with an opportunity to take an elective, for example, in quantitative or maritime finance; and -to demonstrate technical competence and knowledge in econometrics, which can provide a sound basis for dissertation preparation and the possibility of subsequent postgraduate research in finance
Course description
Programme highlights
-Gain a global perspective on the overseas financial environment
-Three flexible study options give you more control over your time
-Accelerate your career through academic achievement
-Enhance your current vocational skills to a higher level
General programme structure
We devote the beginning of the programme to a thorough understanding of the core principles of finance including investment, financing, capital investments, capital structure and market efficiency, risk management, and mergers. Specialist study is then made of investments focussing on equity derivatives, shares and bonds and portfolio analysis.
The essential tool of econometric analysis is taught alongside, which leads to an introduction to research to aid you in understanding and developing a range of statistical techniques.
Our programme applies modern financial and economic techniques and models to real world problems. In the second term our focus takes on a global perspective. You will study the international issues, cross border obstacles and trading blocks that can hinder global business transactions. You will study exchange rate movements, inflation and how that affects interest rates, currency options, financial future and swaps. You will also conduct financial statement analysis and develop and understanding of its importance to international financial reporting implications for valuation.
In addition, you have a choice of further study options to follow and will need to write a final dissertation.
What you study and when, depends on which of the three attendance options you choose.
Detailed programme structure
Your options
-One year full time
-Two years part time block release. You attend both first terms of each year. You start your dissertation at a distance and complete at the end of the two years.
-Two years part time continuous learning. In the first year you take two modules in each term. In year two, term one, two modules are taken plus dissertation preparation which goes on until term two. In year two, term two you study one elective and the dissertation is completed by September
Route A (full time over 12 months)
Term 1
-Principles of finance
-Investments
-Econometrics
Term 2
-International finance
-Financial statement analysis
-Elective - may include maritime finance, issues in finance, quantitative finance and methods, economics, organisation and management or public economics and public finance
Term 3
Dissertation (completion by September)
Route B (part time by continuous study over 24 months)
Term 1 of year 1
-Principles of finance
-Investments
Term 2 of year 1
-International finance
-Financial statement analysis
Term 1 of year 2
-Econometrics
-Dissertation preparation
Term 2 of year 2
-Elective - will include maritime finance, issues in finance, quantitative finance and methods, economics, organisation and management or public economics and public finance
-Dissertation preparation (continued)
Term 3 of year 2
-Dissertation (completion by September)
Route C (part time by block release over 24 months)
Term 1 of year 1
-Principles of finance
-Investments
-Econometrics
followed by a 12-month gap for project preparation
Term 2 of year 2
-International finance
-Financial statement analysis
-Elective - will include maritime finance, issues in finance, quantitative finance and methods, economics, organisation and management or public economics and public finance
Term 3 of year 2
-Dissertation (completion by September)
