MSc Financial Management

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MSc Financial Management

MSc Financial Management

TRANSFORM YOUR CAREER THROUGH FINANCIAL EXPERTISE

This flexible MSc equips you with the skills, knowledge and confidence that will allow you to pursue a successful career in financial management. If you are looking to upskill yourself or change careers, this course will equip you with the financial knowledge and skills sought by organisations worldwide. It will also give you a deep understanding of the financial markets in a global context.

Successful finance practitioners require a wide range of transferable skills and subject-specific knowledge in areas such as corporate finance, financial markets and financial accounting. Our MSc comprises foundational units in finance and accounting alongside advanced units in the following areas: Financial Management, Financial Markets, Financial Strategy, Private Equity, Data Analysis & Statistical Techniques and Quantitative Methods for Financial Management.

With MSc Financial Management, you will learn how to:

  • Understand the interplay between well-functioning financial markets and successful companies;
  • Apply a full range of financial techniques to real-life business situations;
  • Search and gather relevant financial information from multiple sources, including companies’ annual reports and financial databases;
  • Offer data-based solutions to complex and relevant business challenges, such as analysis of financial strategies and selecting valuable investment projects.

Our MSc Financial Management blended-learning course also offers face-to-face workshops (six days, twice each year) in Singapore & Kuala Lumpur. These valuable opportunities give you time to develop your global network, meet the academic team, and have full support from the lecturers. The workshops are also a chance to take time off from your day-to-day working life, focus on your studies and undertake experiential learning. You’ll apply theory to case studies based on real business problems while working in multicultural groups with colleagues from diverse professional backgrounds.

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"MSc in Financial Management aims to offer the notions and skills that today’s managers require, and provides a starting point for a successful career in finance.”

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Student Testimonials

Whether you are looking to reach new heights in your existing industry or change direction completely, you will graduate from MSc Financial Management with the skills, experience and confidence you need.

MSc Financial Management – Berry

I applied for the MSc Financial Management course as it will equip me with the technical skills in data analysis and knowledge that will allow me to pursue my career in strategic consulting. This course is a stellar opportunity for me to utilise my quick learning abilities, critical and logical thinking, analytical, communication and relationship-building skills. Through this programme, I am able to apply the knowledge I acquired to help me accomplish workplace projects, whilst fostering my own personal and professional growth. I’ve also been able to build a global mindset by studying with people from around the world.

Berry Zhou
Project Management Engineer, Foxcon Technology Group
  1. Flexible Learning
    Study while you work. No exams, 100% coursework & assignment based.

    Studying a flexible course means you can learn while you continue to work, directly applying the skills and knowledge you learn immediately to solve your day-to-day business challenges in finance.

  1. Engaging Workshops
    Held at leading financial hub & Islamic financial hub - Singapore & Kuala Lumpur

    Meet and network with industry peers and global experts during workshops, held over six days, twice each year in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

  1. Holistic and Well-rounded Curriculum
    Enhancing your career opportunities in the world of finance

    The programme's well-balanced combination of online learning excellence and face-to-face conferences with industry leaders allows you to experience finance in action. This, coupled with company visits, study trips, networking events, and career training/workshops, will equip you with the means to flourish in the finance industry upon graduation.

  1. Globally Recognised
    Our Accounting & Finance studiesis ranked 22nd in the world (QS World Ranking 2024).

    The University of Manchester is ranked 34th in the world (QS World University Ranking 2024), while Alliance Manchester Business School’s Finance Studies is ranked 26th globally (QS World Rankings 2024).

  1. Cutting Edge Research
    Experience the University's one-of-a-kind Data Visualisation Observatory

    The University of Manchester is an international powerhouse for Financial Technology (FinTech) research, teaching and innovation. The first of its kind in the UK, its Data Visualisation Observatory offers interactive 3D visualisation of data to visualising monetary flows and stock market behaviours in Fintech.

  1. Alumni & Networking
    Connecting you to a powerful global network of business contacts

    Join the ranks of our senior management and C-Suites working in top financial institutions across the globe. When you join our MSc Financial Management programme, you become part of an extensive network of the 60,000 AMBS alumni across 176 countries worldwide.

The course will equip you with:

  • A deep understanding of the tasks that financial managers and other similar finance practitioners undertake and the objectives they pursue;
  • The ability to describe and interpret the functioning of financial markets;
  • An understanding of why and how successful companies rely on and benefit from well-functioning financial markets;
  • The skills and knowledge to analyse and synthesise complex information from corporations and financial markets, and offer solutions to challenging problems;
  • The capability to search and gather relevant financial information from several sources such as companies’ annual reports and financial databases;
  • Flexible and relevant transferable skills that finance practitioners require in their career.

Each unit consists of 15 credits (excluding the final project) and requires a total of 150 hours of study per unit.

 

There are no exams within the MSc. Summative assessment comprises individual and group coursework, with two assessments per unit. We will provide online quizzes and activities through each unit as methods of formative assessments.

 

The final project will consist of a group project.

Units 1 - 4

UNIT 1

ACCOUNTING DECISION MAKING
  • Introduction to accounting
  • Accounting conventions and techniques to support organisational decision-making
  • Foundations and principles of management and financial accounting

UNIT 2

FINANCE DECISION MAKING
  • Introduction to finance
  • Time value of money and asset valuation
  • Cost of capital and capital budgeting techniques

UNIT 3

CORPORATE FINANCE
  • Introduction to corporate finance
  • Cost of capital estimation and advanced capital budgeting techniques
  • The choice between equity capital and debt capital

UNIT 4

GLOBAL FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS
  • Overview of the global financial system
  • Banking and financial regulation, investment banking and private equity
  • Risk management and hedging strategies
Units 5 - 8

UNIT 5

FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS
  • Strengths, limitations and developments in contemporary financial reporting
  • Interpretation and assessment of firm performance
  • Credit and debt analysis to predict the likelihood of financial distress

UNIT 6

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
  • Principles underlying financial decision-making by multinational corporations
  • Foreign direct investment decisions, exchange risk and hedging techniques
  • Political risk measurement and management

UNIT 7

VENTURE CAPITAL AND PRIVATE EQUITY
  • Introduction to venture capital and private equity
  • Fund raising activities by private equity investors
  • Identification of capital investment opportunities and capital allocation, and management of investments to maximise returns

UNIT 8

BUSINESS MODELS AND FINANCIAL STRATEGY
  • Evaluation of alternative business models to create and capture value
  • Short- and long-term financial decisions over the lifecycle of the firm
  • Fintech and other innovative sources of finance
Live business project

UNIT 9

DATA ANALYSIS AND STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
  • Basic econometric tools to estimate relationships between variables
  • Formulation of empirical hypotheses to be tested
  • Interpretation of results from statistical and econometric outputs

UNIT 10

QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
  • Sophisticated statistical tools for finance practitioners
  • Analysis and forecasts of time series data
  • Empirical interactions between stock returns, exchange rates and other variables

UNIT 11

GROUP PROJECT
  • Identification of topic to study and formulation of plan to collect information and data on the topic
  • Selection of suitable methods and analysis of information
  • Dissemination of the results of the study
Enjoy flexible exit points that are aligned with your career development

When life changes, your studies should be flexible enough to change with you. You will be able to graduate with a postgraduate qualification if you’ve met the following requirements:

Candidature up to 1 year.

To graduate, students must complete 60 credits (4 units) to be awarded with a Postgraduate Certificate.

This programme allows you to build on your study to achieve the right level of qualification for you. Students can return to stack towards a higher qualification at a later time.

You’ll benefit from the flexibility of an online course, complemented by valuable face-to-face learning through our six-day workshops held in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur

Our workshops give you an excellent opportunity to develop your global professional network and discuss experiences with colleagues working across the world in diverse professional environments. You will also meet the academic team, who will be on hand to discuss the course and answer any questions.

Enjoy time off from your day-to-day working life to spend time with your classmates, working in groups to apply theory to practice through real-life case studies based on contemporary business problems.
Culture of Teaching Excellence

Recognised as one of Europe’s most experienced Accounting and Finance teams, our academics are global thought leaders and exceptional teachers who are committed to your professional development. Our faculty members have published papers in leading scholarly journals, received recognition for teaching & research excellence, acted as consultants to large corporations, and served as inspirational teachers and mentors. 

Meet Some of Our Full-Time Faculty @ AMBS
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Professor Arif Khurshed

Course Director, MSc Financial Management

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Professor Amedeo De Cesari

Senior Lecturer in Finance, AMBS

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Dr Julian Jones

Senior Lecturer in Management Accounting, AMBS

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Dr Paul Simpson

Senior Lecturer, MIE

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Ms Patricia Perlman

Senior Lecturer in Finance, AMBS

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Professor Brahim Saadouni

Professor of Accounting & Finance, AMBS

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Your future career prospects & pathways

Our MSc Financial Management programme is designed to prepare you for a successful career in the world of finance, wherever in the world you plan to work. This course will enable you to develop the professional financial and management skills alongside the expertise required to make you a valuable asset in your work from day one of your career.


This MSc Financial Management programme primes you for a myriad of roles. Learn how to become highly relevant regardless of where you aim to carve out your career. Within the finance function of large organisations, in smaller businesses where the ability to control finances is essential or even in public sector organisations.

Possible careers

Graduates from this Master’s degree may find employment in prominent industries such as Banking, Finance, Capital Markets, Asset/Wealth Management, Venture Capital & Private Equity or Consulting.


Our AMBS graduates (MSc Finance, MSc Accounting and Finance) have gone on to secure lucrative job roles in their career journeys, with some of the most relevant opportunities to this Master’s degree including, but not limited to, careers such as:

  • Auditors
  • Bank Managers
  • Business Development Specialists
  • Business Transformation Consultants
  • Corporate Tax Associates
  • Data Analysts
  • Finance and Accounting Managers
  • Financial Analysts
  • Financial Reporting Officers
  • Investment Bank Analysts
  • Risk Analysts
  • Trading Accountants Managers

…and more.

Graduate destinations

Our AMBS graduates have gone on to work in various different organisations and sectors including: 
INTAKE
September 2025 		APPLICATION DEADLINE
1st August 2025 (Friday)
FEES
£23,435 inclusive of GST
(*subject to changes)

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24 months
LEARNING MODE
Part-time blended learning : 6 days face to face workshops per semester + online learning 		WORKSHOP LOCATIONS
Singapore & Kuala Lumpur
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Updates

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The Covid-19 pandemic has brought upon us a time of deep reflection and contemplation with how to approach the semesters to come. In these uncertain times, we would like to further discuss our arrangements for the year ahead.

We would like to reassure you that your safety and wellbeing are our main priority, as well as ensuring that we deliver outstanding teaching, learning and student experiences. We want to reassure you that we’re doing everything we can to enable every student to fully participate and engage in their studies, regardless of your personal or family circumstances and the changing course of the pandemic. We’re hard at work behind the scenes developing excellent, creative and interactive teaching for the start of the year.

We have moved our induction activities and welcome events online, so that students who are unable or unwilling to attend at the Centre, may still be able to participate, with Q&A events at the end of each session as well as separate drop-in events especially to address any queries new students may have. The positive feedback from the sessions has led to the introduction of drop-in Q&A sessions to be made available to all Global MBA students, and these drop-in sessions will be conducted twice weekly on Monday and Friday, with members of the Global MBA Support Team present to address relevant queries.

As previously communicated and as many other universities have also now confirmed, workshops will be delivered online in September, and potentially for the entire semester. Nevertheless, in adherence with governmental guidelines and regulations, we will be offering the opportunity for students to attend Virtual Workshops at the Centre. Students will be able to enjoy in-person social connectivity with their peers while working in groups. This hybrid-flexible, mixed-mode teaching approach combines both in-person and online face-to-face teaching and learning activities. This prevents any ‘learning deficit’ regardless of whether you choose to attend in-person activities or not, to make sure none are excluded.


We are committed to improving and extending our mixed-mode learning provision and are continuing to support our brilliant teaching staff in re-designing teaching material for 2020/21, working with our Institute for Teaching and Learning and through the sharing of best practice on our Teaching and Learning Online Network. We are also currently recruiting additional e-learning and learning technology team members, to provide our colleagues with the very best support and online learning expertise. We ask for your patience and understanding that courses may have minor structural changes, and we hope you understand that any revisions we make are so as to further enhance and improve your learning experience with us.


We are very much looking forward to the new academic year and a return to a slightly different, but very safe and welcoming environment at the Manchester Worldwide S.E. Asia Centre.


From all of us at the Manchester Worldwide S.E. Asia Centre, we hope you stay safe and well. We are, as always, here to support you the best that we can through this extraordinary global situation.

Professor Arif Khurshed

Course Director, MSc Financial Management

Prof. Arif completed his PhD from the ICMA Centre, University of Reading and joined the University of Manchester as a post-doctoral research associate in 1999. A year later he took up a lectureship in Finance. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005 and then to Professor of Finance in 2013.

Prof. Arif is on the editorial board of the British Accounting Review and is an academic member of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC). He is one of the founding members of the BAFA SIG in Corporate Finance & Asset Pricing. Arif have been an external consultant to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (formerly FSA) and the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA).

Professor Amedeo De Cesari

Senior Lecturer in Finance, AMBS

Dr Amedeo is a Senior Lecturer in Finance in the Finance and Accounting Group at Alliance Manchester Business School. He previously held appointments as a Lecturer at Aston Business School (2008-2014) and at Manchester Business School (2007-2008).

He was awarded a PhD in Finance from Manchester Business School in 2008. For his PhD thesis, he examined the determinants of Italian open market stock repurchases and the effects of these transactions on several measures of market quality.

Most of his research lies in the areas of corporate finance and corporate governance with a particular focus on dividend payments, stock repurchases, initial public offerings and executive compensation. His research papers have been published in reputable international journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance.

He has also acted as an ad-hoc reviewer for several reputable journals including the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Financial Review, the Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting and the British Accounting Review.

Over the years, he has taught both Undergraduate and Postgraduate (including MBA) courses in Finance, Corporate Finance and Derivatives.

Dr Julian Jones

Lecturer in Accounting & Finance, Alliance Manchester Business School

Dr Julian W Jones started his career at Alliance Manchester Business School, completing a Ph.D. in Financial Strategy whilst working on a number of research programmes for the ICAEW and teaching Management Accounting & Business Strategy.

Julian then left academia to take up a position in practice. In this advisory role with Chief Financial Officers of corporations in +$1bn organizations, Julian worked with over 400 CFOs, advising them on a range of challenges from instilling cost discipline, M&A value capture, finance transformation, capital discipline, strategic planning and managing in a crisis. He was the firms’ headline presenter at the firm’s prestigious annual executive retreats; a forum brining influential groups of CFOs who together, often with collective revenues greater than the GDP of entire nations.

He is focused on influencing the pedagogy of accounting education. He constructs innovative ways of providing formative feedback to large classes. He is also a firm advocate of using in-class polling as a means of better engaging with groups of largely international learners, and helps learners contextualise their learning via e-learning apps that showcase live business and accounting challenges prior to attending class.

In addition to creating and delivering bespoke programmes for executives, Julian has devised and delivered accounting based education across the School’s global centres. He also teaches on a range of undergraduate management accounting and strategy programmes, and has created a new virtual MBA Accounting module to support the School’s joint venture with Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.

Dr Paul Simpson

Senior Lecturer in Finance, Alliance Manchester Business School

Prior to joining Alliance Manchester Business School, Dr Paul Simpson held positions at the University of Stirling and UMIST. He currently teaches modules on Mergers and Acquisitions for both the MSc in Accounting and Finance and MBA courses.

Ms Patricia Perlman

Senior Lecturer in Finance, Alliance Manchester Business School

Patricia is a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School. She has a Masters in Finance and International Management from Stockholm School of Economics. She also holds a Post-Graduate Qualification in Teaching (PGCE) and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Patricia is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA ) and a ABNLP qualified Master Coach and NLP Master Practitioner.

Patricia has extensive experience in the finance sector including derivatives and wealth management where she has worked for over 11 years in large financial corporations such as Citigroup, JP Morgan, Nomura and Barclays in Manchester, London and New York.

Patricia has worked with a wide range of financial markets products, including structured funds, structured products, OTC options, notes, swaps and warrants, and proprietary index derivatives. She has also worked with a variety of client types including banks, asset managers, insurance companies, large corporates, fund distributors and other financial institutions.

In 2019, Patricia was awarded Faculty of Humanities AMBS Outstanding teaching award. In 2017 Patricia was awarded AMBS Academic of the year Full-time MBA. She has also been nominated for numerous other teaching awards such as Faculty Teacher of the Year and Most inspiring Lecturer.

Professor Brahim Saadouni

Senior Lecturer in Finance, Alliance Manchester Business School

Brahim Saadouni is a Professor of Accounting & Finance at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester. Prior to joining AMBS, Prof. Brahim worked at the School of Management, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST: 2000 – 2004) and the University of Hull (1991 – 1999) where he held the position of the Head of the School of Accounting, Business & Finance, and Director of the Centre for International Capital Markets Research.

Prof. Brahim has extensive teaching experience both in the UK and overseas. He has delivered courses and workshops in the Middle East and North Africa (Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) and Asia (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore). He has also given workshops to practitioners in the UK, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and Indonesia. Brahim has held Visiting Associate Professorship at the School of Management, Boston University (USA), and also held a Visiting Research Fellowship at Perth Business School (Australia). More recently (2016-2017), Professor Saadouni was Visiting Fellow at the School of Banking & Finance, the University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia).