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Banking & Finance
Danube University Krems
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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 14,000 - | ||
| Location: | Krems / Austria | ||
| Duration: | 18 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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The Master of Banking & Finance is designed for successful careers in the banking and insurance industry. It is an intensive English taught program that trains people who hold an academic degree to analyse and solve financial issues.
The program provides an unique learning experience where formal knowledge transfer of technical concepts is deeply rooted in business practice.This top program is carried out in cooperation with the University of British Columbia (UBC). The UBC campus is situated in Vancouver, on the scenic west coast of Canada. The University´s Finance Division is one of the most renowned in North America.
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Description of the Basic Modules
Basics in Management
Management accounting, cost accounting, economics, business mathematics and statistics, general management - business game.
Managerial Economics
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, US - GAAP, IFRS
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.
MBF Description of the Advanced Modules
All modules are an exciting and intensive symbiosis of theory and practical training; in other words a stat-of-the-art banking & finance program.
International Financial Environment
The purpose of this course is to describe the foreign exchange (forex) market in which exchange rates are determined and the international financial system governing exchange rate determination.
Security Pricing
Introduces the concepts of arbitrage and its use for valuation and 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.
Empirical Investigations in Finance
Applying statistical methods of financial market data. Topics include: working with financial data, empirical applications of financial volatility and factor models in finance and financial forecasting.
Dynamic Portfolio Strategies
Introduces techniques for shifting investments between asset classes over time periods. Topics include: tactical asset allocation and portfolio insurance strategies.
Financial Engineering
This module provides an introduction to financial engineering and some of the tools that are used in this field. The main topic areas are Introduction to Financial Engineering and Risk management, The Monte Carlo method and applications, interest rate models, Credit risk.
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 Institutions
Develops a solid understanding of what financial institutions do and why. Topics include: risk management, capital adequacy directive and bank regulation.
International Financial Management
Examines how to value projects whose cash flow is dependant on the exchange rate. Topics include: international CAPM, management of flow of funds within foreign subsidiaries.
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To be eligible to the Master Program, applicants need to hold an academic degree, additionally we expect a 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.
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 Banking & Finance at Danube University Krems.
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