Finance, MS at Pace University

With a master's in finance, you may advance your career and lead your company to data-driven success. You will obtain a full understanding of all facets of finance in the organisation with our MS in Financial Management programme, including capital budgeting, cash flow valuation, risk management, capital structure, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, and more.

• Apply the following corporate finance fundamentals: This lesson covers capital budgeting approaches such net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), adjusted net present value model (ANPV), and profitability index (PI).
• Calculate the value of bonds and stocks.
• Discuss the importance of corporate governance and how it affects the company.
• Apply dividend policy and capital structure concepts.
• Describe the advantages and disadvantages of using debt or equity to fund projects.
• Examine financial statements and how they relate to finance.
• CRSP, Compustat, Global Insight, Bloomberg, and other financial databases can be used.
• Calculate the standard deviation, variance, covariance, and correlation coefficients using statistical analysis.
• Use the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), factor models, and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory to solve your problems (APT).
• In corporate finance, regression analysis is useful.
• Excel can be used to perform statistical functions and regression analysis.

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Our MS in Financial Management programme will give you a solid foundation in global economics, investment decisions, and international corporate finance. You'll learn how to make strategic decisions based on financial information.

Our curriculum allows you to take some investment management courses, so you may discover how investment managers assess the financial management of your company. The Global Portfolio Analysis Center at Lubin provides access to a variety of financial databases, including Bloomberg, as well as the option to study for and obtain Bloomberg certification.

The Pace branch of GARP (Global Group of Risk Professionals), which offers the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification, is associated with the national GARP association. The CFA Institute, which offers the CFA certification, has a Pace chapter of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA). National competitions are organised by student clubs to help them prepare for prominent certifications such as the CFA.

Lubin is a CFA® Institute University Affiliation Program participant. Lubin's finance degree programmes combine the CFA Program Candidate Body of Knowledge and stress the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice, according to the CFA Institute.

CAREER OPTIONS

• Acquisitions Manager
• Credit Manager
• Chief Financial Officer
• Controller
• Equity Analyst
• Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
• Financial Consultant
• Internal Auditor
• Investment Banking Associate
• Risk and Insurance Analyst
• Treasury Director