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Finance – (MBA)
University of Aberdeen
College of Arts and Social Sciences
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 12,991 - | ||
| Location: | Aberdeen / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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The MBA Finance will follow the first two semesters of core courses, already established within our existing MBA programmes and providing a solid grounding in management principles. This will be followed by an intensive summer school, undertaking courses aimed at:
* Providing an understanding of accounting information and financial reporting.
* Giving a background to modern finance.
* Introducing key areas of finance (commodities, currencies, options, hedging, futures, institutions and markets) and to so in an historical context
* Helping the student learn from history and to place finance in that context. To provide the students with theoretical and practical knowledge of quantitative techniques in finance.
* To introduce key areas in quantitative techniques in finance such as regression analysis, correlations, volatility measuring, and time series analysis.
* To help students learn about the usefulness of quantitative analysis in measuring and assessing risk and expected return.
* To introduce key aspects of financial analysis and enable students to undertake interpretation of accounts; ratio analysis and user-group specific tools, e.g. Z scores and credit ratings; accounting information and the stockmarket; forecasting and valuation.
For further information, please contact:
Nicki Duncan
Co-ordinator Graduate Programmes
Tel: +44 (0)1224 273235
Email: gbs@abdn.ac.uk
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Contents
First Semester
Accounting & Finance For Managers - Provides an understanding of accounting information and financial reporting and introduces key aspects of financial analysis and enable students to undertake: interpretation of accounts; ratio analysis and user-group specific tools, e.g. Z scores and credit ratings; accounting information and the stock market; forecasting and valuation.
Operations Management - Introducing the core concepts in the management of operations producing products and services. These include the management of capacity and inventory, production planning and control, project management and the management and improvement of quality.
Business Economics - This module will equip students with the basic knowledge of business economics and examine the ways in which economic theory may be applied to solve real business problems, focussing on aspects of economics vital to a student of business. This module aims for students to be comfortable with the tools of economic analysis as applied to the international, economic and business environments in which modern day businesses and policy makers have to operate.
Business Strategy & Organisation - Drawing mainly on microeconomics theories and applications in order to introduce students to theories, concepts and techniques of analysis that are close to many typical business situations.
Second Semester
Strategic Marketing - Marketing management and strategic planning. Marketing in a range of organisational settings, including consumer, industrial, service and voluntary sectors. Systems perspective on key marketing techniques. Relationship between marketing and other management functions in modern organisations.
Managing People At Work - Management of people as a key element for organisational success. People as the most complex of all organisational resources to manage. Theoretical and practical issues of people management in the contemporary competitive economic environment.
Research and Professional Conduct in Business - The students are given a background into the ethical dilemmas that can face business both in their research and professional conduct. This background is expanded by focussing on issues involving learning organisations, the knowledge society, knowledge management, managers as researchers, research design and methods.
Leadership & Decision Making - This course will allow students to investigate the underlying theories which underpin the popular views about Leadership. It will examine the trait and situational theories, among others, so that students begin to recognise the basic assumptions which are used by writers in professional journals and quality broad sheets alike. It will allow students to practice some of the skills required in effective leadership in both communication and team working and in its tutorial programme will introduce the elements of decision making and game theory.
Final Stage
Students are required to undertake three elective modules specifically in the area of Finance, and go on to complete the Critical Studies Paper in a finance related area. The Finance courses available at present are:
Financial Analysis
Quantitative Finance
Finance & Financial History
The Summer School is run over a three week period, undertaking one course per week.
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The minimum requirement is a good first degree (equivalent to a British second-class Honours degree) or above in any discipline. The Director of Graduate Programmes will consider applicants with non-standard qualifications, particularly those with considerable practitioner experience. Evidence of English language proficiency is also required.
The following qualifications are acceptable as providing evidence of proficiency for Graduate programmes in Business. Tests should be taken within two years of applying to the University of Aberdeen for entry:
Either IELTS or TOEFL qualifications are acceptable. IELTS Band 7.0 or above and 6 in the writing component. TOEFL 600 or above and 5.0 in the TWE. TOEFL ibt score must be 100, plus 20- 24 in the TWE.
Applicants who do not meet the above standard, may be offered entry on the condition that they undertake the 13 month programme including a four week Business Skills & Communication Course run by the Language Centre at the University of Aberdeen.
Please note, students who accept an offer of a place will be asked to pay a deposit (approximately 10% of the total programme fee) to secure their place. This deposit is later deducted from the tuition fees payable at registration. See for further details.
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