In today's market, if you want an intensive and demanding management education experience with a distinctive international business flavour, you will need to study a Master's Programme in International Management with Finance. This rapidly growing discipline of international management and finance equips graduates for the global business challenges of the 21st Century. You don't have to be a qualified accountant with 20 years experience to undertake an international management and finance course at graduate level. Employers are more interested in flexibility, adaptability and creativity than mathematical ability. Fortunately, a postgraduate programme in international management and finance offers all three elements, preparing graduates for a lucrativie and successful future.

What Does an International Management and Finance Course Involve?

A Master's course in international management with finance reflects a wide range of contemporary practices and challenges. Graduate programs are modular, developing management themes along with strategy, finance and financial strategy. International management and finance programs at graduate level provide professional training for those who wish to specialise as financial economists and econometricians in governmental bodies, financial institutions and multinational corporations, or who wish to follow an academic career. A Master's degree provides critical programmes of study through an intensive range of modules in the field of international management with a major practical emphasis on finance in an international context.

Core courses of an international management and finance degree are typically made up of modules which provide a critical understanding of current and historical theories, balanced with contemporary business practice. Graduates will develop a practical understanding of the application of theoretical concepts and they will learn to evaluate alternative theories and practices, and to make judgements on their applicability to complex and changing business situations.

International Macroeconics and Finance

This module provides a broad overview of international economics and international
finance within the context of recent events and current policy. It introduces a wide
range of topics including: exchange rate determination, monetary and fiscal policy
in an open economy, balance of payments crisis and an introduction to derivatives
instruments. The insights provided by these theoretical frameworks will enable discussion of topics related to the international financial architecture such as developing country debt crises, the single currency in Europe and financial crises of the 1990s including the Russian Crisis.

Corporate Finance for Managers

The focus of this module is the financing and investment decisions made by the managers of companies in pursuit of corporate goals. It examines how managers can obtain the greatest possible return on investments for the smallest amount of risk. You will acquire the knowledge and understanding of theories, models, tools and techniques to assist in making financial decisions to achieve corporate goals. These will include identification of the cost of capital/rates of return, dividend distribution, investment appraisal, portfolio theory, foreign exchange and interest rate issues.

Managing Finance for Added Value

This module aims to provide knowledge, understanding and applications of strategies for the creation of value for business owners through effective financial management and associated decision making. You will be able to critique the financial frameworks used in the preparation of conventional published financial statements as well as measuring and interpreting financial performance through value ratios. You will gain an understanding of the nature of the financial management environment and its impact upon organisations and the consequences for value generation; you will also learn how to explain the role and purpose of strategic financial management in the context of value creation. The module will be founded on a broad range of technical aspects including project appraisal, required rate of return as cost of capital, managing working capital, and managing risk, raising long-term finance, valuing companies for investment, returning value to owners and measuring performance.

Graduate Courses in International Management and Finance - Entry Requirements

At postgraduate level, many universities require a minimum of five years work experience and students are normally expected to have some experience of working in the accounting or finance functions of an entity; however at Queen Mary University of London the graduate degree is specifically designed for students who have less technical prior experience than is required for specialist courses in pure finance.

For September 2007, tuition fees were £9570 International (non EU) and £6995 UK and EU.

Further information and application forms contact:
Geraldine Marks
Graduate Secretary
School of Business and Management
www.busman.qmul.ac.uk