Part-time MSc Financial Management
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
DURATION
24 Months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 22,050 *
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
* inclusive of 5% VAT paid in 4 installments
Key Summary
Introduction
This course will equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence that allow you to pursue a successful career in financial management.
You'll gain a deep understanding of the characteristics and functioning of financial markets in a global context and while you do not need to be a finance specialist to take this course, a strong interest in numbers and analytics is important.
Successful finance practitioners require a wide range of transferable skills and subject-specific knowledge in areas such as corporate finance, financial markets and financial accounting. Our MSc comprises foundational units in finance and accounting alongside advanced units in the following areas:
- Financial management
- Financial markets
- Financial strategy
- Private Equity
- Data Analysis & Statistical Techniques
- Quantitative Methods for Financial Management
A final supervised project will allow you to deepen your finance knowledge and apply your skills by analysing real-world information and addressing questions with practical implications. You will be taught by a team of academics who have several years of experience delivering course content both online and face-to-face within blended programmes. Our academics are on the cutting edge of finance research, which informs their teaching. They regularly utilise our wide range of financial databases in their learning and teaching activities. This is a significant strength of our MSc in Financial Management.
The course will equip you with:
- A deep understanding of the tasks that financial managers and other similar finance practitioners undertake and the objectives they pursue;
- The ability to describe and interpret the functioning of financial markets;
- An understanding of why and how successful companies rely on and benefit from well-functioning financial markets;
- The skills and knowledge to analyse and synthesise complex information from corporations and financial markets, and offer solutions to challenging problems;
- The capability to search and gather relevant financial information from several sources such as companies' annual reports and financial databases;
- Flexible and relevant transferable skills that finance practitioners require in their careers.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Financial Zone
From the moment you start the course, you will have access to Alliance Manchester Business School's Finance Zone, one of the UK’s most comprehensive collections of specialist financial and business databases.
These resources are used by top researchers around the world and include Bloomberg, Datastream, Thomson ONE, Compustat, WRDS, Capital IQ plus many more.
University of Manchester Alumni Bursary
If you have successfully graduated with a degree at the University of Manchester or UMIST, you can receive an alumni loyalty bursary, which is a 15% discount on the tuition fees that you are personally funding.
ESAAD cardholders get 15% off on MSc Financial Management.
Company sponsorship
Many companies sponsor employees on the Global Part-time MBA. We can help you put together a business case that outlines the benefits to your organisation. We can also schedule a meeting or call with your HR department to talk through the programme. Please get in touch with us to find out more.
0% interest instalment plan with Emirates NBD
Our students can pay the semester or entire fees using an Emirates NBD credit card and get 6-12 months instalments at 0% interest. One-time AED 49 processing fee per transaction.
Log on to ENBD Online / Mobile Banking or Call 600 540000 to assist with the 0% interest instalment
Students can apply for a free life Emirates NBD credit card through this link.
This offer is only valid for UAE residents.
Curriculum
Course units
Global Financial Markets and Institutions
- Introduction to Corporate Finance
- Cost of Capital Estimation and Advanced Capital Budgeting Techniques
- The Choice Between Equity Capital and Debt Capital
Foundations of Accounting
- Introduction to Accounting
- Accounting Conventions and Techniques to Support Organisational Decision-Making
- Foundations and Principles of Management and Financial Accounting
Foundations of Finance
- Introduction to Finance
- Time Value of Money and Asset Valuation
- Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting Techniques
Corporate Finance
- Introduction to Corporate Finance
- Cost of Capital Estimation and Advanced Capital Budgeting Techniques
- The Choice Between Equity Capital and Debt Capital
Data Analysis and Statistical Techniques
- Basic Econometric Tools to Estimate Relationships Between Variables
- Formulation of Empirical Hypotheses to Be Tested
- Interpretation of Results from Statistical and Econometric Outputs
Financial Statement Analysis
- Basic Econometric Tools to Estimate Relationships Between Variables
- Formulation of Empirical Hypotheses to Be Tested
- Interpretation of Results from Statistical and Econometric Outputs
International Financial Management
- Principles Underlying Financial Decision-Making by Multinational Corporations
- Foreign Direct Investment Decisions, Exchange Risk and Hedging Techniques
- Political Risk Measurement and Management
Venture Capital and Private Equity
- Introduction to Venture Capital and Private Equity
- Fundraising Activities by Private Equity Investors
- Identification of Capital Investment Opportunities and Capital Allocation, and Management of Investments to Maximise Returns
Business Models and Financial Strategy
- Evaluation of Alternative Business Models to Create and Capture Value
- Short- and Long-Term Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle of The Firm
- Fintech and Other Innovative Sources of Finance
Group Project
- Identification of The Topic to Study and Formulation of A Plan to Collect Information and Data on The Topic
- Selection of Suitable Methods and Analysis of Information
- Dissemination of The Results of The Study
Structure
This blended-learning course also offers face-to-face workshops (six days, twice yearly) in Manchester, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore or Dubai depending on where you choose to study. These valuable opportunities give you time to develop your global network, meet the academic team, and have full support from the lecturers.
The workshops are a chance to take time out from day-to-day working life, focus on your studies and undertake experiential learning. You'll apply theory to case studies based on real business problems while working in multicultural groups with colleagues from diverse professional backgrounds.
Program Outcome
You will learn how to:
- understand the interplay between well-functioning financial markets and successful companies;
- apply a full range of financial techniques to real-life business situations;
- search and gather relevant financial information from multiple sources, including companies' annual reports and financial databases;
- offer data-based solutions to complex and relevant business challenges, such as analysis of financial strategies, and selecting valuable investment projects.