Core modules 4 & 5
Financial Markets and Instruments
Provides a basis for investment and financing analysis and decisions, and a foundation for a more in-depth study of the subject if you who wish to go on and specialise in finance for your Executive MBA. The module comprises three complementary parts - first focusing on capital budgeting and investment decisions; the second focusing on financing instruments and markets; and the third deriving the weighted average cost of capital used for discounting and valuation purposes.
Learning outcomes:
- Role of finance in the firm
- Investment appraisal
- Valuation of income streams
- Pricing of bonds
- Valuation of equities
- Risk and return
- Deriving and using WACC in valuation.
Strategic Leadership
Strategic leadership is the perspective most often required of an Executive MBA graduate as they are professionals who can handle a business situation from a wide range of perspectives and not only from the viewpoint of one specialist discipline. The module is concerned with strategic decision-making and the long term successful direction of the organisation.
Learning outcomes:
- What is strategy? What strategy is not?
- Strategic decision making and strategic leadership
- Theories of Industry Evolution, Sources of Competitive Advantage, Positioning view of the Firm, Resource Based view of the Firm, Competencies and knowledge management, Organisation Forms.
- Data analysis and presenting argument learned through the exercises
- Linking strategy and execution.
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