Courses on the MS in Finance

FINANCIAL REPORTING & CONTROL* – This course develops an understanding of the key concepts and procedures of corporate financial reporting and control. You will learn to understand financial information, and how financial information is developed, analyzed and used by both corporations and outside stakeholders.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT* – This course provides a rigorous understanding of the principles of finance. You will be introduced to asset valuation and the concept of risk versus return, learn about the fundamentals of stock, debt and derivatives markets, and understand how companies make investment, financing and payout decisions.
CORPORATE FINANCE & RISK MANAGEMENT – Companies are exposed to a variety of financial risks, including interest rate, currency, counterparty, commodity and M&A-related risks. You will learn what risks companies should manage and why, how risk management policies should be developed and organized, and how the various types of risk can be measured and managed. You will gain critical new insight into the operational problems that today’s corporations face, and how financial market conditions interact with corporate performance and decision-making.
COMPANY VALUATION – This course equips you with the various valuation techniques used by business consultants and bankers, as well as discusses how the various elements in these models are derived, and equally, how our inherent biases and preconceptions cloud the valuation process. We draw upon illustrations faced by a range of real-world companies across a broad spectrum of industries under different circumstances.
CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING – This course covers both aspects of corporate restructuring: financial and operational. Financial restructuring considers various improvements made to a firm’s capital structure, in line with their cash flow needs to promote efficiency, support growth, and maximize the value to shareholders, creditors and other stakeholders. Operational restructuring is the process of increasing the economic viability of the underlying business model through mergers and acquisitions or divestitures.
BOARDROOM GLOBAL CHALLENGE – This course is designed to place you into realistic business and management scenarios. An on-line, turn-based, management-level business simulation forms the basis of the class. The simulation incorporates supply chain, finance, pricing, investment and marketing-related decision-making problems. The course exposes to the need for transformational and system-wide process-oriented thinking. The pedagogical approach is strongly focused on Kolb’s learning cycle and the experimental approach.
ADVANCED REPORTING & CONTROL – This course examines the fine lines between estimation, assumption, mistakes, and deliberately misleading information. You will learn the fundamentals of corporate group reports, and take a dive into accounting practices around the world. The course equips future analysts and investors with the advanced tools to interpret published information, and to be on the lookout for omissions and misrepresentations.
BEHAVIORAL FINANCE – This course reviews the effects of social, cognitive, and emotional factors on the financial decisions made by individuals and institutions. Psychological biases inhibit the individual’s ability to make good investment decisions. This has consequences for market prices and returns, and the resource allocation decisions made by corporate decision makers.