MSc in Finance

The current business environment is rapidly changing. World markets are becoming increasingly global, organizations are merging, restrictions on trading transactions are being lifted and competition is becoming more intense. Information technology creates an innovative environment which facilitates the delivery of a new range of services, the direct exchange of information, execution of transactions and agreements. In recent decades, developed countries have shifted their business focus from manufacturing to services while less developed economies are also changing as they attempt to fill in the resulting gap in the field of manufacturing. The recent economic crisis which has affected the services sector and more severely so the financial services industry is rapidly changing the legal, business and economic environments of all affected countries.

Given the challenging environment that organizations are called to face, the Department of Accounting and Finance (AFN) aims:

• to provide its graduate students with the skills and knowledge necessary to advance their careers and eventually lead their organizations to financial success.
• To the establishment of a leading research team, strengthening the research orientation of the Department worldwide
• to apply the fundamental concepts and tools of finance.
• To attract qualified students from Cyprus and abroad