Contenu
Quantitative Methods:
Introduces students to the main quantitative
techniques which are used in the academic
finance literature, thus equipping students
to access this literature in an effective
and illuminating manner. It examines the
structure and content of financial and
quantitative data and goes on to develop
students’ understanding of a range of
statistical techniques which can assist the
financial manager in making decisions.
Analysis and Control:
Addresses the purpose and basis for the
preparation of annual financial statements
and considers their use from the perspective
of current and prospective investors as well
as other stakeholders.The role of accounting
in planning, budgeting, controlling and
decision making is explored. Financial
analysis helps future international managers
measure profitability and solvency. It
optimises ways of evaluating firms.
Global Financial Markets:
Develops a unified framework for understanding
international financial intermediaries and
global markets. It examines the structure,
regulation and operation of international
banking and non-banking financial institutions.
The module analyses how central bank
operations affect financial institutions.
It develops an understanding of international
money and capital markets, the flow of funds
through the economy, the role of international
financial and future markets. It also
examines key trends in global finance
including the costs and benefits of financial
innovation and global deregulation.
Portfolio Management:
Examines the concepts of risk reduction
and return. It compares the benefits of
portfolio investment with single asset
investment in terms of financial market
and corporate investment strategies. The
module explores the Markovitz Portfolio
Theory and the statistical and theoretical
principles that underpin it. Consideration
is given to the nature of risk and portfolio
selection techniques aimed at minimising
it.The module explores and evaluates the
Capital Asset Pricing Model, the Efficient
Markets Hypothesis and the Arbitrage
Pricing Theory. Empirical evidence relating to
these models will be considered and reviewed.
Research Methodology:
Provides an intensive introductory course to
research philosophy, methodology and design
across a range of accounting, business,
finance and economic fields. It helps future
managers to acquire professional methods to
appraise a market.
C O U R S E S ON THE
LONDON METROPOLITAN
UNIVERSITY CITY CAMPUS:
Mergers and Acquisitions:
Are designed with five primary aims.To
provide an analytical framework for
evaluating the strategic and financial
impact of M&As on corporations and
their stakeholders. To examine M&As
in the context of the regulatory and
capital market environments.To present
a critical examination and analysis of
the practical management and integration
of acquisitions.To utilise principal-agent
analysis to examination the role of corporate
management teams and their advisers,
in relation to shareholders and other
stakeholders.To examine the systematic
empirical evidence on the success/failure
of corporate acquisitions.
Global Business Strategy:
Provides insight to the management
challenges facing multinational corporations
(MNCs), whether competing within
national markets or with other MNCs.
Examines the many, often conflicting,
schools of thought around global strategy,
and facilitates gaining insight into the
assumptions, possibilities and limitations
of each set of perspectives, theories
and techniques.
Corporate Social Responsibility:
Although CSR is a relatively new term
its roots go back a long term and can
be traced to a variety of philosophical,
ethical, and environmental discourses.
Thus there are a number of different
approaches to CSR as well as a number
of different definitions of what exactly CSR
comprises. All however have fundamental
implications for the activity of corporations
and their managers as well as for the
various stakeholders of the corporation.
All impact upon the performance of a
corporation and how that might be evaluated
by these various stakeholders. Furthermore
the concept has been extended to apply
not just to corporations but to many
other (not necessarily profit seeking
forms of organisation).
