Programme Structure

This module provides students with an understanding of accounting concepts and the application of these concepts to communication, monitoring, and resource allocation. A framework for a thorough comprehension of financial statements and their analysis will be created with the completion of this module.

Students will review the field of quantitative investment strategies from the perspective of portfolio managers, analysts, and investors. The purpose of this module is to provide direct exposure to the problems facing quantitative analysts and to discuss modern quantitative approaches in Finance and Investment.

This module gives students the capacity to understand theories and apply techniques that have been developed in corporate finance to real-world situations. This module will provide graduates with a thorough knowledge of the financing decision, investing decision and managerial decision (the key decision in corporate financial management).

This module will provide students with an understanding of the structure of various financial markets and familiarise them with major financial institutions such as banks, stock exchanges, and brokers. The module will analyse how the market structures potentially create and mitigate financial risk to market participants and end users.

This module addresses the methods used to value companies in a Merger and Acquisition (M&A) setting. An analytical framework for evaluating the strategic and financial impacts of mergers and acquisitions on corporations and their stakeholders will be discussed in detail, considering various approaches to valuation. The aim of the module content is to present students with a critical examination and analysis of the practical management and integration of acquisitions.

Students will be familiarised with these concepts through an in-depth examination into the key differences between the core M&A buyout strategies, and the implications and reasoning behind each. Leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and management buyouts (MBOs) will be the focus of this module and strategies and processes pertaining to each will be addressed.

By reviewing this module, students will be provided with a detailed framework and guidance for preparing their Final Project (Dissertation). Concepts such as research processes, types of research, research methodology, and sources of collection and analysis of data will be reviewed.

The aim of the dissertation is to provide the student's with the ability to carry out detailed research, conduct critical thinking and provide solutions for a specific problem.

These skills sets are both useful in academic and commercial context.