Finance & Accounting
Our finance portfolio offers a comprehensive introduction to the major concepts of finance theory. The programmes give those aspiring to switch to finance positions or those newly entered to financial roles the opportunity to gain confidence and competence in concepts underlying the decisions faced by corporate managers and investors. The programmes are also beneficial for those more experienced in finance but wishing to undertake a refresher on the essential finance areas.
Watch our interview with Academic Programme Director Professor Raghavendra Rau on why finance is less about profits and more about value.
The programmes can be taken on their own or together as a consolidated series: the Cambridge Financial Management Certificate of Achievement is awarded on completion of four of the Finance & Accounting programmes below.
Corporate Governance: Agency Problems & Ethics [NEW]
6-7 June 2013
This programme gives an overview of the roles that asymmetric information play in traditional corporate finance decisions and explains how many of the corporate governance structures we see in firms today are driven by responses to agency conflicts and asymmetric information.
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Corporate Investment
10-11 October 2013
This programme will explore how firms should make investment decisions and will provide a framework to analyse all types of corporate investment decisions, both in short- (working capital) and long-term (capital budgeting).
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Portfolio Management
21-22 November 2013
This programme looks at two key questions: how should investors value the different financial instruments they are offered by companies and what are the risk-return choices they have?
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Finance & Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
12-13 December 2013
This programme is designed for those who wish to learn the basics of accounting and financial terminology and financial analysis techniques, and will teach you how these concepts and strategies are integrated into your organisation's performance.
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Raising Capital
23-24 January 2014
This programme will focus on how firms should deal with external investors, examining how much debt to raise, the going public decision, the dividend decision, the mergers and acquisitions process and the leveraged buyout process.
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Behavioural Finance
2014 dates to be confirmed
This programme will look at behavioural decision traps - obstacles that might stand in the way of the normative ideal of value maximisation. The programme will also examine how the insights of behavioural finance complements the traditional paradigm and sheds light on the behaviour of asset prices, corporate finance, and various Wall Street institutions and practices.
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Options, Futures & Other Derivatives
2014 dates to be confirmed
This programme lays out the basic steps in valuing forwards, futures, options and other types of derivative assets, using the no-arbitrage principle as its basic approach.
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