Banking, Finance & Insurance

The MSF programme, typically, prepares graduates for careers incorporate finance, investment bankingand investment management. Thecore curriculum thus focused managerial finance, corporate finance andinvestment analysis. These topics are generally preceded by more fundamental coursework economics, (managerial)accounting, quantitative methods (usuallytime value of moneyandbusiness statistics). In many programs, these fundamental topics are a prerequisite for admission or assumed as known, and if part of the curriculum, students with appropriate background may be exempt from these. The programme usually concludes withcourseworkin advanced topics where several areas are integrated or applied such portfolio management, financial modeling, mergers and acquisitionsandreal options;managerial economicsand variousquantitative financetopics may also be offered as advanced courses. The M. finance / M.Sc. prepares graduates for more technical roles, and thus "focuses on the theory and practice of finance"with a "strong emphasis financial economics addition financial engineeringandcomputational methods. "The MSF core topics are (often) also covered, although in (substantially) less detail.