EC0130 Global Economic Environment
The aim of this course is twofold. Firstly, to provide students with an understanding of the structure and functioning of financial markets and the financial instruments available for investing, raising finance and controlling financial risks. Secondly, to explore the links between the macro-economy and financial markets and in particular how changes in the macro-economy affect stock, bond, foreign exchange, and derivatives markets, as well as how these markets in turn impact the macro-economy. The course will introduce students to important features of broad classes of securities and provide a broad introduction to the many venues and procedures available for trading securities in international capital markets. It will discuss how securities are brought to the market and how securities are traded in dealer markets, via electronic communications networks or in specialist markets. The second part of the course will examine the role that financial markets and institutions play in shaping outcomes in the modern macro economy. Students will develop their ability to translate policy changes into their impact on financial markets and to understand linkages between stock, bond and currency markets. Historical lessons from the evolution of the global financial system will be offered and comparisons will be made with the current global environment.

FI0120 Financial Markets
The aim of this course is to provide a fundamental understanding of the structure and functioning of financial markets, helping students to become familiar with the financial instruments that are now available for investing, funding operations and controlling financial risk. The course will examine the functions of all major financial markets: equities, bonds, derivatives and the characteristics of the related to these markets financial instruments. The course will link theory and practice in a manner consistent with the skills required for the graduates to have in order to complete the postgraduate program successfully and to pursue careers in the financial services industry including asset management, investment banking, and institutional sales and trading.  Initially, the course will provide an overview of the operation of financial markets within a financial environment that continues to undergo significant changes. Then, participants will be introduced to the various instruments available in both organized and over the counter markets. Fundamental issues of how these instruments are priced and traded will also be addressed. In addition, participants will be introduced to the derivative markets and products focusing on their basic principles and applications.

DS0260 Quantitative Tools in Finance
This course teaches how mathematical techniques and econometrics are used in financial research and decision making, and prepares students for many of the core and elective courses that will be available in the program. The emphasis of the course will be on application rather than theory. EXCEL and the econometric package EVIEWS will be used extensively in the applied work. Topics covered include probability, matrix algebra, hypothesis testing, simple linear regression and multivariate regression.

DS0350 Financial Modelling (Prer.: DS0260, FI0351)
This course aims to develop and sharpen students' financial modelling skills. It brings together statistical and decision analytic frameworks suck as regression analysis and optimisation with finance theory and information technology. It helps participants to deepen their understanding of finance concepts through the development of a wide range of financial models in areas such as cash flow modelling, risk analysis, portfolio optimisation, and option pricing. It is a practical course based on instructed computer workshops. These workshops focus on financial modelling with excel, including scenario and sensitivity analysis, risk analysis using @Risk, optimisation with Solver, and the development of VBA functions.

FI0201 Corporate Finance and Valuation (Prer.: EC0130, FI0120)
This course covers the application of the net present value rule and other criteria for project appraisal, the use of discounted cash flow and other valuation models in making investment decisions, risk, return and capital budgeting under uncertainty, the cost of capital and capital structure, dividend policy and how firms issue securities.

FI0351 Portfolio Management & Investments (Prer.: EC0130, FI0120)
The course addresses topics in capital asset allocation, the history of risk and return, asset pricing theories (CAPM, APT, Consumption based asset pricing), market efficiency, the predictability of asset returns, the term structure of interest rates and bond portfolio management, futures and options, international portfolio management and performance measurement and evaluation.

FI0700 Empirical Methods in Finance
This course provides the student with the necessary mathematical, statistical and econometric training required for the Program. It emphasizes intuition and problem solving skills rather than formality. Topics covered include optimization, linear systems, constrained optimization, optimal control and dynamic programming, basic time series models, linear regression, estimation and properties of estimators, hypothesis testing and applications to stock returns, interest rates and exchange rates. The course familiarizes the student with financial databases and estimation application software for estimating risk models, testing investment strategies and constructing optimal portfolios.

MG0650 Business & Financial Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
The overall objective of the course is to help us develop business and financial ethics leadership praxis and actionable knowledge, i.e., action that creates wealth in such a way that makes ourselves, our organizations, and the world better. This course takes a management methods approach to business and financial ethics and social responsibility. The course focuses on methods managers can use individually and together in addressing ethics and social responsibility issues and in helping to build and maintain ethical and socially responsible organizations in various types of environments and realities. Methods considered include ethics leadership, change, reasoning, dialogue, persuasion, governance, due process, negotiating, incentive, training, social movement, alternative institution building, top-down and bottom-up compliance code and win-lose forcing methods, and ethics crisis management and turnaround methods. In addition to learning about the methods, students are invited to reflect upon what types of institutional citizens we would like to be and what types of ethical and socially responsible organizations we would like to help create in our various types of environments and realities. Case studies from Europe, Asia, and North America are considered.