Core modules: Certificate

• Contexts of International Finance

  This module provides the contextual underpinnings which support the content of many of the modules delivered on this pathway. Microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis provides a solid foundation for understanding the operation of a wide range of financial markets.

• International Accounting

  This module adopts an international perspective on modern financial accounting and reporting whereby the diversity of practices in various countries are evaluated from a historical, economic, political, sociological and technological context.

• International Financial Markets

  This module analyses the nature and recent development of security, product and derivative financial markets in a global setting. It examines these markets from the perspective of corporate users and private and international investors.

• International Business Environment

  This module provides a broad based introduction to the environment in which the international business must operate, focusing on economic, legal, political, socio-cultural, ethical, ecological and technological factors influencing the decision making of the business or organisation.

Core Modules: Diploma

• International Corporate Finance

  This module extends, develops and applies some of the materials introduced in International Financial Markets in Semester 1. It focuses on key aspects of the financial operations related to maximising the valuation of a corporation in an international environment.

• Venture Capital and Private Equity

• Portfolio, Foreign Exchange and Interest Rate Management

  This module builds on the materials in the Semester 1 module International Financial Markets to analyse the alternative techniques (primarily Chartism, fundamental analysis and portfolio theory) through which to construct investment portfolios that optimise performance relative to the risk-reward characteristics of investors.

• Management Theory into Management Practice: Global Perspectives

  The module seeks to synthesize contemporary management theories with the experiential, practice-based management approaches actually adopted within private and public sector organisations.

• OR

• Independent Learning Module

  This module supports postgraduate students in the preparation and submission of independent learning. It is intended for use only where the Faculty identifies a need.

MSc

• Research Methods for Managers in an International Context

  This module provides course participants with the appropriate knowledge, skills and abilities they will need to effectively carry out a piece of small scale business/management research.

• Major Project

  This module support students in the preparation and submission of a Master's stage project, dissertation.