Banking & Finance MBA 2015

  • 05 Oct 2015 - 05 Oct 2017
  • Online Event

Description

Banking & Finance MBA 2015 is a course delivered for 24 months by Middlesex University and IFF Training.

Topics
  • Executive leadership
    • Evaluate the HR cycle and HR planning through recruitment and selection process and training and development
    • Strategic HR management, analyse HR and organisational strategy; look into the changing role of HR; organisational and international industry context
    • Leadership and change - Evaluate the change process, obstacles to change, politics and influence, leading change
    • Analyse management and leadership through perspectives on management and leadership and the different styles of management/leadership
    • Assess leadership development by looking at the `war for talent`, the learning process, emotional intelligence and reflection and the development process
  • Business strategy
    • Purposes and objectives of organisations
    • The strategy process
    • The internal environment focusing on resources and capabilities as well as linking this to knowledge management and organisational learning
    • The external environment, including the competitive and structural dynamics of industries
    • Competitive strategy and linking this to cost and differentiation advantage
    • Innovation and the management of technology
    • International strategy covering the drivers of internationalisation, competitive advantage in an international context, entry mode strategies, and the management of international operations
    • Corporate strategy covering the scope and boundaries of the firm and linking this to strategic choice in the analysis process
    • Implementation and managing strategic change
  • Finance & economics
    • Cost, supply, and pricing strategies
    • Basic economic theory and the firm
    • International economic environment and globalisation
    • Domestic macro-economic environment and policies
    • Financial statements including balance sheet, profit & loss account and cash flow statement
    • Accounting principles and concepts
    • Sources of finance and investment decision making (including IRR, NPV)
    • Analysis of financial statements (including concepts of depreciation, debt and inventory)
    • Budgets & performance indicators (including Master Budget and Cash Budget)
    • Cost of Capital & Capital Structure
  • Marketing management
    • Marketing management, strategies and plans
    • The local and international marketing environment
    • Target markets, segments and customers
    • Research, analysis and interpretation
    • Innovation: new products, services and market development
    • Brands, branding and marketing communication and campaigns
    • Managing and measuring marketing performance
    • Delivering customer value
  • Corporate finance
    • Market efficiency, including the importance of financial markets, how markets receive information, how prices react to information and affect the corporate decision makers
    • Objectives in corporate financial decision making and the real world conflicts of interest
    • Investment analysis, including the mechanics of investment analysis, investment interactions and options
    • Risk and returns, including nature of risk, models for risks and returns, and risk measurement in practice
    • Financial restructuring: mergers and acquisitions
    • Cost of capital and capital structure: the choice of financing, how firms take risk into account when making financing decisions, how firms find the right financing mix, and get to the optimal capital structure
    • Valuation: present value and fundamentals of valuation, valuation of bonds, shares and companies
    • Dividend policy: theory and practices
  • Research methods
    • Kinds of knowledge issues relating to the qualitative-quantitative distinction
    • Types of organisational research
    • Participatory and action research
    • Implications for research of positivism, realism, critical management and other perspectives on management
    • Research designs
    • The logic and organisational pragmatics of selecting an organisational research topic
    • Analysing information, including statistical methods, discourse analysis, cognitive mapping
    • Sources and methods of collecting information: surveys, databases, observational data
    • Summarising research and drawing conclusions
  • Risk management and regulation
    • Fundamentals of Value at Risk (VaR)
    • Review of statistical tools for measuring risk
    • Managing interest rate and forex risk with derivatives
    • Asset/Liability Management and interest rate and currency risk
    • Strengths and limitations of the Basel Accords with respect to risk management
    • Credit Metrics, credit scoring and credit rating systems risk management
    • Examination of specific risk based derivatives – credit default swaps, catastrophe bonds
    • Stress testing, Monte Carlo simulations of abnormal returns distributions
    • Understand the concepts of credit rating and role of the major Credit Ratings Agencies (CRA’s)
    • Settlement risk – contrast between OTC products and central clearing houses
    • Role of political action groups and commercial lobbying
    • Examine the role of major global regulators, supervisory and (quasi) regulatory bodies
    • Review of Financial Stability Board guidelines on SIFI’s
    • Key elements of Basel III – does it counter weaknesses of Basel II?
  • Securities and derivative products
    • Securitization – how it works, risks, benefits
    • Sovereign & government Bonds - issuance, ratings, risk profiles
    • Issuance of equity securities, equity market platforms and trade execution
    • Time value of money and sensitivity to changes in interest rates
    • Clearing, Settlement and Safe Custody - contrast OTC with central clearing parties
    • Foreign exchange instruments – spot, forwards, swaps
    • Hedge Funds – strategies, fees, performance
    • Characteristics of Collective Investment Schemes & Exchange-Traded Funds
    • Futures contracts – specifications, margin requirements
    • Financial ratios - Profitability, Liquidity, Gearing
    • Principles/mechanics in the swaps markets
    • Black Scholes and binomial tree methods of options pricing
    • Active and passive strategies – index tracking, stock picking
    • Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
    • Portfolio management styles and allocation strategies
    • Correlations among asset returns – impact on benefits from diversification
  • Governance in banks and financial institutions
    • Distinguish between ethical issues and legal issues
    • Ethics as moral principles which govern good behaviour
    • Rewards, bonuses should be adjusted for risk
    • Business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR)
    • Privacy and protection to whistle-blowers
    • Claw backs and deferred compensation structures
    • Ethics and inter-generational issues
    • How do businesses ensure that directors, managers and employees act ethically?
    • External costs – transfers of financial liabilities to public sector
    • Public balance sheet issues – interest, entitlements, unfunded liabilities
    • What is sustainable growth? – short term versus long term horizons
    • Trade off economic growth and resource depletion/environmental degradation
    • Socially responsible investing – screening investments, green issues

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