Our MSc Financial Management programme will provide the knowledge and skills that will give you a significant edge in this competitive finance sector.

Why study the MSc Financial Management at Birmingham?

• You will be motivated to develop a deep and critical knowledge and understanding of corporate finance theories and their contemporary application with the use of the latest digital finance and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria to evaluate projects and make financing decisions, when appropriate;
• You will learn how to interpret and analyse financial statements of companies (including their annual reports, interim reports, etc.), value businesses and securities of companies and prepare associated reports for an investor or the board of directors of a company;
• You will be taught a wide range of econometric techniques and how to apply them and interpret the results that you obtain from their application;
• You will also learn how to download data from a wide range of databases (such as Bloomberg, WRDS, Compustat, CRSP, Capital IQ, BoardEX, Morningstar, Bank Focus, CSMAR, DataStream, Thomson One and FAME.) as well as how to analyse the data and draw conclusions from the results obtained from their analysis. The software is the same as the one that is widely used in industry and will give you experience which will prepare you for your professional career
• Who is this course for?
• This is a conversion programme. It is designed for university graduates who have some quantitative backgrounds and want to work in the finance industries (such as banks, insurance companies, pension funds, stock broking firms, stock exchanges, finance/treasury departments of many local and multinational organisations or government departments) but have limited knowledge of finance, accounting or economics to do so.

Employability

Dubai is a financial hub with strong demand for financial management graduates who will have both the knowledge and skills for working in banks, insurance companies, stock broking firms and other industries in the finance sector in Dubai. Graduates from the programme will also gain theoretically underpinned knowledge and skills on the MSc Financial Management programme that can be used to work in the treasury departments of many companies in Dubai as well as in multinational companies that operate globally, government departments and other organisations