Part time MSc Financial Management

This course will equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence that allows you to pursue a successful career in financial management.

You'll gain a deep understanding of the characteristics and functioning of financial markets in a global context and while you do not need to be a finance specialist to take this course, a strong interest in numbers and analytics is important.

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
• Quantitative Methods for Financial Management

A final supervised project will allow you to deepen your finance knowledge and apply your skills by analysing real-world information and addressing questions with practical implications. You will be taught by a team of academics that have several years of experience delivering course content both online and face-to-face within blended programmes. Our academics are on the cutting-edge of finance research, which informs their teaching. They regularly utilise our wide range of financial databases in their learning and teaching activities. This is a significant strength of our MSc in Financial Management.

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.

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, selecting valuable investment projects.

Financial Zone

From the moment you start the course, you will have access to Alliance Manchester Business School's Finance Zone, one of the UK’s most comprehensive collections of specialist financial and business databases.

These resources are used by top researchers around the world and include Bloomberg, Datastream, Thomson ONE, Compustat, WRDS, Capital IQ plus many more.

Academic Entry Requirements MSc Finance

Academic Entry Qualification Overview

Normally, a 1st or 2:1 UK Bachelor's honours degree or international equivalent or A Master's degree or international equivalent from an institution.

We expect that most candidates interested in this Master's will have a degree in engineering, mathematics, business, economics, science or other related subjects; however your degree can be in any discipline if you can demonstrate that you have good numeracy and analytical skills.

We can also consider:

Excellent candidates with a 2:2 UK Bachelor's honours degree or international equivalent, with at least one year of relevant professional experience who can demonstrate their suitability and motivation for this Master's course. The degree should be in a relevant subject with good grades in quantitative subjects. An interview may be required.

All our degree programmes, require a high level of competency in all aspects of English language – speaking, writing, listening and reading. You will need to provide evidence that your English language ability meets the University of Manchester minimum requirements and is sufficient to enable you to fully participate and be successful in the programme.

English Language Competence
In the case of non-native speakers of English an IELTS profile of 6.5 overall with no less that 6.5 in the writing component and no other subsection below 6.0

Or
TOEFL internet-based score of 90 or more overall, with a minimum writing score of 22 and no other section below 20.

Or
Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) or Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) overall score of 176 or above, with 176 in writing and no sub-section below 169

Or
Grade C if taken before January 2015 (the Cambridge First Certificate in English is not acceptable).

Or
Pearson test of English score of 59 or more overall, with a minimum writing score of 59 and no other subsection below 51

English Test Exemptions As an alternative to taking a standard English Language Test, we can consider one or a combination of the following.

• You have successfully completed a degree level qualification (recognised by UK NARIC as equivalent to a UK bachelor degree or higher), which was fully taught in English.
• If English is the main business language of the company/organisation where you are currently working and you predominately use English in your role, we can consider this when assessing your English language competency.

An interview will also be required.

English language test validity
Some English Language test results are only valid for two years. Your English Language test report must be valid on the start date of the course.