Finance and Management MSc

Finance & Management will provide you with a thorough understanding of management and financial management. You will learn to critically evaluate the macro and micro environment to successfully impact on the management of organisations operating in a global context, especially from a financial perspective.<br/><br/>**WHY THIS PROGRAMME**<br/><br/><br/>- You will build on your general business knowledge gained during your undergraduate degree. You will develop a multidisciplinary knowledge base of finance, management and economics to aid with your problem solving and decision making skills to support business management.<br/><br/><br/>- You will develop an in depth understanding into topics not limited to: international business strategies, global business and financial systems, cross-culture management, corporate finance and investment management, intellectual property protection, and corporate social responsibility. These are central to operating and managing contemporary organisations.<br/><br/><br/>- Your understanding, analytical and interpretive abilities will be significantly enhanced to enable you to appreciate and manage the opportunities and challenges that businesses face in today’s dynamic business world.<br/><br/><br/>- You will be taught by staff who have international experience across finance, management and economics, enabling you to get a broad understanding of a wide range of factors that affect management in a global context.<br/><br/><br/>- You will have the opportunity to learn about real-life experiences of business executives and analyse real case studies in order to apply theory into practice and think like a business management executive.<br/><br/><br/>- You will be equipped with essential practical, intellectual and transferable skills for careers in financial services, management, business analysis and consultancy. <br/><br/><br/>- We are now partners with Bloomberg Experiential Learning. The ELP program recognises and celebrates academic institutions that are leaders in experiential learning through the integration of Bloomberg terminal exercises into curriculum.<br/><br/><br/>- Take advantage of our individualised skills development programme, which will ensure you balance academic theory with crucial employability skills to help you maximise your potential and achieve your career goals.<br/><br/><br/>- Adam Smith Business School is triple accredited.<br/><br/><br/>**PROGRAMME STRUCTURE**<br/><br/>You will take both core and optional courses and undertake a dissertation. Based on your career plan, your dissertation will allow you to focus on either a financial and economics or management issue.<br/><br/>**Core Courses**<br/>Corporate finance and investment<br/>Financial services<br/>Global business environment<br/>International strategic management<br/>Managing across cultures and comparative management<br/>Management issues and controversies<br/><br/>**Optional Courses may include:**<br/>International business and entrepreneurship in emerging economies<br/>International finance and money<br/>Internationalisation of SMEs<br/>Modern theory of banking and finance<br/>Money, finance and growth