prospectus

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Writing; Contemporary Fund
Management; Financial
Modelling and Analysis;
Fixed Income Analysis;
Mathematics of Financial
Derivatives; Portfolio Theory
and Asset Pricing Models
Finance and Management
MSc
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Location: Canterbury
The programme enables you
to develop the practical skills
required to produce relevant
financial analysis of corporate
companies, financial institutions
or other bodies where finance is
an important activity in both the
public and private sectors.
There are opportunities for
practical work on the MSc to
be carried out in Kent Business
School’s dedicated Bloomberg
Lab. The virtual trading platform
allows you to access and engage
with market data through practical
case studies and the use of online
databases. The programme also
provides you with the necessary
training required for the
Bloomberg Certificate.
Course content
• Compulsory modules:
Bank Asset-Liability Risk
Management; Business in
an International Perspective;
Corporate Responsibility and
Globalisation; Foundations of
Finance; International Financial
Markets and Instruments;
Organisational Behaviour and
Human Resource Management;
Research Methods and Skills
(Finance)
• Two from: Corporate Finance;
Credit Risk; Financial
Regulation and Financial
Crises; Investments and
Portfolio Management;
Managing the Multinational
Enterprise; Strategy
• Business Report in Finance
International Accounting and
Finance MSc
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Location: Canterbury
Entry requirements: See p128.
Students must have studied at
least 60 credits in accounting
within their first degree or hold
equivalent work experience.
This programme is specially
designed to develop your
international accounting
knowledge and skills to a high
professional standard. It equips
you with the professional and
research skills to pursue careers
in a wide range of institutional
settings, such as academia,
auditing, banking, financial
institutions, management
consultancy and organisational
management.
Course content
• Compulsory modules:
Advanced Financial
Accounting; Advanced
Management Accounting;
Corporate Finance; Domestic
and International Banking;
Ethics of International
Business; Foundations of
Finance; International Financial
Reporting; Research Methods
and Skills (Accounting)
• One from: Financial Regulation
and Financial Crises; Financial
Statement Analysis; International
Money and Finance
• Business Report in Accounting
International Banking and
Finance MSc
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Location: Canterbury
The programme develops
cognitive skills that enable you
to fully understand the complexity
of the financial markets in the
domestic and global economies,
as well as an appropriate range
of research skills and relevant
personal and interpersonal skills
STAFF PROFILE
Radu Tunaru
Professor of Quantitative
Finance
Professor Tunaru’s research
focuses on various aspects of
risk management in financial
markets. He has been published
in many journals including
European Journal of Operational
Research, Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control, and the
Journal of Banking and Finance.
He has co-authored three
papers with Professor Robert
Shiller, the 2013 Nobel prize
winner for Economics and he is
an associate editor to the Journal
of Portfolio Management and the
Journal of Banking and Finance.
He has worked for Bank of
Montreal and Merril Lynch in
structured finance departments
and his latest research stems
from problems encountered
while working in the finance
sector.