Financial Analysis Consultancy

This module currently runs:
autumn semester – Thursday evening
This a core one semester module delivered on MSc International Trade and Finance course and as an option on other courses in the subject area. The focus of the module is on the international trade and economic theory. The topics that will be covered in the module include the benefits and reasons for international trade, patterns of international trade, reasons for protectionism, trade barriers, welfare effects of international economic policies, forms of regional economic integration, balance of payments, and determinants of exchange rates. The module will draw on the current research and empirical studies, and examine theoretical and contemporary policy issues and current debates in the international economy. It will also consider the issues and controversies that surround these activities, and illustrate the links between the theoretical concepts and practical realities.

This module currently runs:
autumn semester – Monday evening
This module will enable the students to understand the relations between trade, growth and economic and social development. The focus will be on the continued evolution of the international division of labour, its causes and the consequences for economic development, overall economic growth and social change.

This module currently runs:
autumn semester – Wednesday evening
This module explores the theoretical underpinnings and empirical evidence concerning the activities of corporate finance from an international perspective. The module offers students the opportunity to develop their knowledge in a range of areas related to the international financial system, theories explaining foreign exchange rate behaviour, hedging currency risks, sources of finance for international trade and investment projects for both large and small firms, the effect on international capital structure of investment decisions, risk exposure and risk management, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and multinational working capital management. These topics will be dealt with the overall framework in relation to international corporate activities.

This module currently runs:
autumn semester – Tuesday afternoon
autumn semester – Friday morning
spring semester – Tuesday afternoon
spring semester – Friday morning
spring semester – Friday afternoon
summer studies – Tuesday afternoon
summer studies – Friday morning
This module provides you with the opportunity to work on specific business issues that organisations are facing. Utilising your competences of handling and managing business challenges, starting from problem identification and concluding with solution-related recommendations, thus encouraging research into real world business issues impacting organisations.

This module currently runs:
summer studies – Wednesday evening
spring semester – Wednesday evening
autumn semester – Friday evening
This module provides students with the opportunity to undertake research projects on specific research questions related to their course.

This module is one of three triple-weighted module alternatives open to students (alongside the dissertation and the consulting report). The module provides you with the opportunity to showcase your professional skills in the execution of business-related tasks and experiential learning in the form of a work placement. When executing business tasks, successful practitioners are able to critically evaluate organisational matters and apply their knowledge to contribute strategies, ideas, recommendations and solutions that add value to their organisation. Furthermore, successful practitioners actively develop and shape their own behaviour, capabilities and identity. By critically reflecting on their experiences in work, they are able to develop their own capabilities and skills, and have the ability to understand how they personally add value to an organisation. It is the development and application of these capabilities in a professional context that is explored in this module.

This module currently runs:
autumn semester – Monday evening
The Advanced Financial Management module develops core financial management knowledge and skills and prepares students to advise management and/or clients on complex strategic financial management issues facing an international organisation.

This module currently runs:
spring semester – Monday evening
The module will develop students’ understanding of the critical aspects of managing audit and assurance engagements: acceptance, planning, managing, concluding and reporting.

Students will apply technical knowledge to support reasoning and conclusions. The module aims to develop the following skills:

Assimilating and using information
Structuring problems and solutions
Applying professional scepticism and critical thinking
Developing employability and technology skills

This module is designed to enable postgraduate students the opportunity to gain a minimum of 30 days work experience relevant to their course, to evaluate the activities of the host organisation, to carry a work-based project or piece of research, to identify and articulate skills and knowledge developed during the placement and to obtain employer feedback.

This module currently runs:
autumn semester – Thursday evening
The module examines the theoretical and applied aspects of the role and functioning of domestic and international commercial and investment banks. Relevant theories, models and empirical evidence are used in the analysis of banking operations and strategies across the globe.

This module currently runs:
autumn semester – Tuesday evening
Environmental Economics and Investment is a Level 7 module which is core to MSc Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability. It is one of the optional Economics modules studied on other courses.

This module currently runs:
spring semester – Monday evening
This module gives students the opportunity to study major exchange-based and over-the-counter financial derivatives, their pricing theories, the concept of financial risk, its measurement and management using financial derivatives.

• spring semester – Thursday evening

The module examines the theoretical and applied aspects of regulation and compliance in the financial services industry. Relevant theories, models and empirical evidence are used in the analysis of regulatory and compliance issues across the globe.

This module is aimed to present a set of principles that enable students to understand better the scope of substantive regulation and compliance from local and global perspectives. This module provides the opportunity to students for assessing regulatory choices on specific policy issues and encourages critical reflection on the design of regulation. Students also have the chance to study the forces which have shaped financial regulation and to probe the purpose and nature of financial regulation. As regulation increases and changes are ongoing, the demand for clear guidance on navigating daily compliance issues is greater than ever. Students have opportunities to discuss regulatory concepts and their practical applications including the latest compliance strategies and regulatory information.

• autumn semester – Wednesday afternoon

The field of corporate social responsibility has practically transformed our world and reoriented the way corporate entities conduct and perceive their operational activities. Corporate managers and those who represent corporate entities are expected to always behave ethically. Modern societies now expect that solutions to our social and environmental problems cannot only be the prerogative of nation governments, businesses of the 21st century have a lot to contribute when finding solutions to these problems. The demands modern stakeholders put before corporate entities have continued to increase; tomorrow’s managers need to know how to meet these demands.

• autumn semester – Wednesday morning
• autumn semester – Wednesday afternoon

Business strategy addresses the choices firms make as they set their mission and goals, make decisions in relation to positioning and which markets to enter, and develop their business models. They do this in the context of the external environment, addressing changes in technology, government intervention, competitor actions, customers and markets.

• autumn semester – Tuesday evening

This module aims to develop knowledge and skills in understanding and applying International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). It will also include the theoretical framework in the preparation of financial statements of entities, including groups, and how to analyse and interpret financial statements. Students will also be exposed to the qualitative characteristics of useful information for users of financial reports.

• spring semester – Wednesday afternoon

This module enables the student to have the opportunity to become familiar with the award-winning practical achievements of the University in the area of environmental protection.