Course Outline
Course Structure
Vocationally focused and relevant to current management and financial thinking, the Birmingham City Business School MSc guides you through the effective application of conceptual models in solving financial and management problems.
It encourages you to think and perform like a future financial manager, examining management decision-making at both strategic and tactical level, and emphasising the complexity and dynamics of business and management.
Initially, it covers the disciplines related to the functional aspects of management and discusses how various factors impinge upon management decisions. Throughout, core management modules assess the impact of the globalisation of business.
Through close interaction with expert lecturers, specific finance-based modules evaluate issues such as the different competing financial objectives of the firm, and the agency problem between shareholders and managers in publicly listed companies.
You will continually acquire new skills, insights and awareness. You will also be able to assess financial resources through the understanding of modern financial thinking and techniques, and the management of budgetary planning and control process.
You will gain a critical understanding of the relationship between theories and models of risk and return, and be able to show their relevance to corporate and fund managers. Not only that, you will be able to evaluate international sources of finance and the risks associated with them.
You will eventually produce a Master’s dissertation of depth and conceptual complexity which will allow you to make an insightful contribution to a specific area of management and finance.
Modules
Modules you can expect to study, and the level at which they are studied can be found below:
Certificate stage:
Marketing Management
Managerial Finance
People in Organisations
Operations Management
Enhancing Business and Management Skills
Diploma stage:
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
International Strategic Management
Principles of Modern Finance
International Financial Strategy
Masters stage:
Managing for the Future
Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
Dissertation
Assessments
Assessment is of a practical nature and is undertaken both individually and as a member of a team. The programme uses different types of assessment, which range from assignments, reports, presentations and examinations. The most common form of assessment is reports, which involve some form of problem solving analysis.