Finance: Financial Management

You’ll take four core courses:

• Advanced Financial Management; this course deals with the capital investment and financing decisions of firms; both from a theoretical as a practical point of view;
• Financial Data Decision Analysis; in this course you study the quantitative skills necessary to do empirical research;
• Advanced Finance, Banking and Insurance; this course provides you with theoretical knowledge about the functioning of financial markets and financial institutions; it enables you to use economic and business concepts and models to understand and analyse the impact of the external financial environment on a financial or non-financial corporate, from the perspective of a financial manager.
• Advanced Financial Accounting; this course discusses financial reporting as practised by internationally active companies, and of the relevant institutional framework of accounting standards.

The programme offers the possibility to specialize towards three sub-disciplines. The sub-disciplines Corporate Finance and Accounting focus on the financial management function in organizations, executed by professionals like Corporate Financial Officers (CFO's), Management Accountants, Financial Specialists or Financial Directors. It brings together all the topics relevant for the effective execution of the finance function like financial reporting, management control, treasury, corporate governance and auditing. These sub-disciplines offer a wide spectrum of relevant knowledge areas for the financial manager across the disciplines corporate finance and accounting, emphasizing the business administration programme's integrated approach.

The sub-discipline Financial Sector looks at the financial management function of the financial sector itself. Financial markets, institutions and oversight bodies determine the way the financial system works. This sub specialization provides insights into financial products (like pensions and insurances), into management of financial institutions (for instance banks), and into the working of financial markets.

Throughout the programme, we will prepare you for the job market by doing workshops by the career service department. You’ll look at the ethical side of financial management, and work on your self-development.

During the programme you’ll conduct a research project in small groups that will allow you to apply your newly acquired knowledge and skills, as well as preparing you to write your Master’s thesis and you’ll have the opportunity to take an internship.