Financial Management Middlesex University

Overview

Why study this program?

Financial management is an exciting discipline with complex challenges and far-reaching effects in today's global business world. It offers a vital framework to enable organisations to manage their internal financial affairs in view of their broader national and international business environments. Only with efficient financial management can a business truly survive and grow in a sustainable way.

Combining an in-depth study of theory with essential skills training, in the Financial Management program at Middlesex University you can expect to learn advanced concepts in financial management, ranging from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) to financial data analysis and the practical ways in which this knowledge is disseminated. The course aims to equip you with theories and methods that are used by businesses worldwide, enhancing your appeal to future employers who look for graduates with relevant credentials.

What you will gain?

You'll be learning from academics with research backgrounds in areas such as corporate governance, financial markets and market microstructure. Our teaching team also has practitioner experience with organisations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and Speciality Retail Group.

The international focus of many of our modules will help you think globally and increase your career opportunities worldwide when you graduate.

The course has a strong emphasis on how to apply financial and accounting skills to the practice of financial management in real-world situations. You'll also receive training in specialist industry standard database systems such as Bloomberg and Datastream, as well as software packages including Stata.

About your course

MSc Financial Management is suitable for students from a range of non-finance and non-accounting backgrounds. The course is designed to provide you with competencies and technical skills in financial management. In particular, you will develop and apply their decision-making skills to complex situations.

Focusing on corporate finance and the relationship between financial decision-making and capital market behaviour, the early stage of this course prepares you with the capabilities to apply key financial and management accounting skills and theories to real-world business operations.

In later months, you'll be equipped with the tools an international manager or entrepreneur would need, including business plans, financial management tools, capital budgeting and valuing ventures. You’ll also examine how corporate governance can impact your work, and how investors and financiers use corporate reports to assess stability and form valuations.

With the skills and knowledge developed through the course, you will be able to apply them to a dissertation research project of your choice. This is a chance for you to extend your knowledge of a selected topic and apply it to the formulation and design of a substantive investigation.

Careers

This course is an excellent preparation for a financial career in banking, insurance, pensions, privatisation, and funds management. The areas our graduates work in include 

• corporate finance
• financial analysis
• credit analysis
• commercial lending
• financial consulting
• risk management and
• investment banking