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Finance – (M.Sc.)
Danube University Krems
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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 13,000 - | ||
| Location: | Krems / Austria | ||
| Duration: | 18 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Designed for graduates, the Finance MSc program prepares participants for a successful career in the finance industry. It provides a unique learning experience where the theoretical knowledge of technical concepts is deeply rooted in business practice.
The Finance MSc is an intensive English taught program for those with a degree and/or equivalent work experience, as well as an adequate working knowledge of the English language. The program provides advanced knowledge and skills to managers or financial consultants wishing to develop their career in various fields of finance.
The program comprises seven core modules of the University MBA and a further thirteen specialist finance modules ranging from Financial Institutions, Dynamic Portfolio Strategies, International Financial Management, as well as effective application of analysis to business practices.
Contents
Contents Description of the Basic / Core Modules
Basics in Management
Management accounting, cost accounting, economics, business mathematics and statistics, general management - business game.
Managerial Statistics
This modules provides an introduction to basic statistical topics that are required in later courses dealing with core issues of finance. Participants may have varying levels of prior knowledge in statistics. Special attention is paid to this fact and - more or less - uniform level of skills shall be achieved. The goal is to obtain a comparable level of all participants rather than putting emphasis on emhancing the skills of already advanced participants.
Basic Finance
The objective of this course is to build an understanding of some fundamental concepts for studying corporate finance and asset pricing. In addition to supporting a basic understanding of finance, these concepts are used in many other finance courses that you might subsequently take.
Financial Reporting, IFRS, US - GAAP
This module will assist students in learning to use the financial information included in financial statements to make better decisions. Emphasis will be placed on interpreting the financial statements as opposed to learning how to prepare them. They will also gain an improved understanding of articles related to the financial performance and condition of organizations.
Managerial Economics
In this course we will discover the economic foundations of managerial decision making. This course will develop your capacity to analyze an organization´s economic environment, to understand the effects of the environment on an organization and to apply economic reasoning to internal decision making.
Empirical Finance
Applying statistical methods to financial market data. Topics include: working with financial data, empirical applications of financial volatility and factor models in finance and financial forecasting.
International Financial Environment
The purpose of this course is to describe the foreign exchange (forex) market in which exchange rates are determined and the interntional financial system governing exchange rate determination.
International Financial Management
It examines how to value projects whose cashflow is dependent on the exchange rate. Topics include: international CAPM, management of flow of funds within foreign subsidiaries.
Strategic Analysis of Consumer Behavior
Contemporary approaches to marketing management emphasize the importance of adopting a customer-focused orientation. This course examines the art and science of understanding the consumer (or "customer" or "buyer") and is aimed at an academically-oriented general management audience.
Description of the Advanced Modules
Capital Market
Security Pricing
Introduces the concepts of arbitrage and its use for valuation of primary securities and derivatives.
Options & Futures
Presents the theory and practice of valuing derivatives and managing the risk of fluctuations in the stock and commodity markets.
Dynamic Portfolio Strategies / Portfolio Tactics
Introduces techniques for shifting investments between asset classes over time periods. Topics include: tactical asset allocation and portfolio insurance strategies.
Financial Engineering
Case studies which analyse the economic rationale for financial innovation as well as the value and risks inherent in complex instruments.
Corporate Finance
Best Practices in Operations and Management Science
In order to get a sense of the scope and power of the application of Management Science, you shall study case histories of applications judged by peers as being amongst the best during the last ten years.
Capital Budgeting
Presents the valuation of long-term capital investments and the implementation of investment decisions.
Topics include:
adjusted present value, use of option pricing techniques to value real investments, cash flow modelling and estimation, opportunity cost of capital and simulation techniques in investment analysis.
Financial Strategies
Every business decision is affected by financing considerations, from marketing to human resources to the basic decision on whether to enter or exit a given line of business. The effects go the other way too; financial decisions are a critical part of any viable strategy.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions decisions are critical to the success of corporations and their managers. In this course, we explore the economic motivations for M&A activity, as well as valuation, transaction structuring, financing, and tactics.
Venture Capital
This module is designed as a VERY high intensity look into the process of professionally managed start-ups and part of the venture capital process. At the end of it, students ought to have a feel for the excitement - or maybe the difficulties - of being an entrepreneur, or a venture capitalist.
Financial Distress & Reorganization
The objective of this course is to provide the basis for advanced discussion of the consequences of debt financing. This involves an examination of the advantages of debt and an understanding of how financial distress comes about and is resolved.
Financial Institutions & Bank Management
Institutional Investments
Analyses, in depth, the management of risk and return of institutional investment portfolios.
Financial Institutions
Develops a solid understanding of what financial institutions do and why. Topics include: risk management, capital adequacy directive and bank regulation.
IELTS
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Register Now!Requirements
To be eligible to the MBA Program, applicants need to hold an academic degree, or in exceptional cases we also accept equivalent qualification of professional working experience within one field of finance (7 years), additional we expect very good knowledge of the English language.
Please note that the admission test can be arranged as individual appointment by contacting us with e-mail or by telephone. Applicants are supposed to turn in a CV and all transcripts and diplomas in advance.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Accreditation
According to Austrian law, public universities are not subject to any obligations concerning accreditation. Nevertheless, Danube University Krems requests accreditation for many of its courses by international agencies.
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You can contact Mag. Willibald Gföhler, MBA to ask a question about Finance at Danube University Krems.
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