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Financial Management

University of Manchester

Postgraduate 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 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:

  • 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.

    • Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations. Click through for salaries, employment rates and other UK degrees that lead there:

    1131 Financial managers and directors 4124 Finance officers 2433 Actuaries, economists and statisticians 3531 Brokers 3534 Financial accounts managers 2421 Chartered and certified accountants

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    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

    Offered by

    University of Manchester

    Manchester

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