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Investment Analysis – (M.Sc.)
University of Stirling
Stirling Management School
| Application Deadline: | 31 August (may consider applications after this date) | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 6,000 ≈ € 14,500 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Stirling / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Stirling
Programme Objectives
As a CFA® Institute ‘Program Partner’, the majority of the learning outcomes of all three levels of the CFA® Programme are covered and so the programme is ideally suited to those who wish to become qualified as a CFA® Charter-Holder. The syllabus has a distinctly international orientation that reflects the increasingly globalised nature of financial markets and the investment management profession.
Such is the international reputation of the programme that students come from a wide variety of educational and professional backgrounds and cultures, providing a unique opportunity for the development of worldwide contacts. The Stirling Investment Analysis team won the prestigious CFA® Institute Global Investment Research Challenge UK Final in 2010 and the programme is unique among UK ‘Program Partners’ in having had a team competing in the UK final in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Contents
Structure and Content
The Master’s programme is a one-year, full-time programme. Your programme begins with an initial taught component of two 15-week semesters, involving lectures, practical case study work and workshops, with a supervised dissertation in the final period.
In the autumn semester you will take the following modules:
* Financial Reporting: Provides an appreciation of the underlying assumptions and limitations of accounting information. Measurement and reporting problems involved in financial accounting ‘solutions’ adopted by regulators are discussed
* Corporate Finance: Provides an understanding of how corporations raise finance (debt and equity) and how they invest money (capital budgeting). Also examines other major decision areas of corporate finance and how these affect the value of the firm
* Economics for Business and Finance: Introduces students to economics as a discipline, assuming no prior knowledge of economics, and focuses on aspects most relevant to a career in finance
* Quantitative Methods in Finance: Provides the statistical and computing skills necessary to fully understand modern banking and finance operations. Spreadsheets are used to manipulate statistical models and to estimate linear models
In the spring semester you will take the following modules:
* Financial Statement Analysis: Develops skills in the interpretation and use of financial statements, focusing on company valuation and identification of companies that may become insolvent. Includes a group project where students collaborate to write and present an investment analysis report on a UK quoted company
* Derivatives: Focuses on the uses and the pricing of the key derivative instruments: options, futures, forwards and swaps
* Investments and Portfolio Management: Focuses on the valuation of both equities and fixed-interest securities and the management of equity and fixed-interest portfolios
* Law of Investment Regulation: Introduces investment regulation and the development of markets with focus on the international, US and EU context. Considers UK insider dealing and the Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct of the CFA® Institute is also covered
Delivery and Assessment Successful completion of the taught modules leads to the award of a Postgraduate Diploma. The Master’s degree is awarded on satisfactory completion of a dissertation, following the Diploma examinations. Dissertation topics range over all areas of relevance to investment analysis and allow completion of a case study or research topic dissertation.
Timetable Please contact Jessica McKinley, Programme Secretary, for information on your timetable and reading lists.
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Entrance Requirements
A good Honours degree in any discipline or equivalent professional qualifications or significant and relevant work experience. Although an accounting or finance-related degree is not required for admission to this programme, students should be reasonably numerate.
English Language Requirements
If English is not your first language, you must provide evidence of your proficiency such as a minimum IELTS score of 6 (minimum 5.5 in each skill), or TOEFL: Listening 21, Reading 22, Speaking 23, Writing 21.
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
Accreditation
In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Accounting and Finance at Stirling ranked 1st (equal) in Scotland and 5th in the UK, with virtually all (90 percent) research activity considered to be of international standing.
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