Financial Management
University of ManchesterPostgraduate MSc Part-time 24 Months Accounting and financeEconomicsFinance
About this course
Successful finance practitioners require a wide range of transferable skills and subject-specific knowledge in areas such as corporate finance, financial markets and financial accounting. Our MSc comprises foundational units in finance and accounting alongside advanced units in the following areas:Financial management Financial markets Financial strategy Private equity Data Analysis & Statistical Techniques Quantitative Methods for Financial Management A deep understanding of the tasks that financial managers and other similar finance practitioners undertake and the objectives they pursue; The ability to describe and interpret the functioning of financial markets; An understanding of why and how successful companies rely on and benefit from well-functioning financial markets; The skills and knowledge to analyse and synthesise complex information from corporations and financial markets, and offer solutions to challenging problems; The capability to search and gather relevant financial information from several sources such as companies' annual reports and financial databases; Flexible and relevant transferable skills that finance practitioners require in their career.
A final supervised project will allow you to deepen your finance knowledge and apply your skills by analysing real-world information and addressing questions with practical implications. You will be taught by a team of academics that have several years of experience delivering course content both online and face-to-face within blended programmes. Our academics are on the cutting-edge of finance research, which informs their teaching. They regularly utilise our wide range of financial databases in their learning and teaching activities. This is a significant strength of our MSc in Financial Management.
The course will equip you with:
Career Prospects
Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:
1131 Financial managers and directors
4124 Finance officers
2433 Actuaries, economists and statisticians
3531 Brokers
3534 Financial accounts managers
2421 Chartered and certified accountants
Course Details
- Qualification
- MSc
- Study Mode
- Part-time
- Duration
- 24 Months
- Start Date
- 2025
- Academic Year
- 2025
- Campus / Location
- Manchester
- Scheme
- Postgraduate
- Subjects
- Accounting and finance, Economics, Finance