Financial Impact
After exploring Fintech and M&A, Module 3 culminates in your final Business Challenge, where you'll apply everything you've learned and see how far you've really come.
Courses in this module
Portfolio Management
This course aims to provide a solid foundation for creating, managing, and evaluating investment portfolios. It focuses on the practical application of portfolio management and asset allocation processes, management of fixed-income and equity portfolios, performance evaluation, attribution, and reporting at asset management companies.
Key topics & skills
Portfolio Management Process & Investment Policy
Capital Allocation to Risky Assets
Efficient Diversification & Portfolio Management Models
Application of Portfolio Models
Portfolio Performance Evaluation
Core Course
Influencing Others
Influencing people is key to reaching shared understandings and goals in business. In Influencing Others, you will learn how to use influencing and persuasion tools to enable you to change people’s viewpoints and behaviours, helping you to maximise your impact in a variety of organizational contexts. Crucially, you will learn how to apply your skills to situations where you either do not have or cannot rely on formal positions of authority.
Key topics & skills
Persuasive Communication
Influence Without Authority
Managing Up and Across
Core Course
Advanced Financial Accounting & Reporting
This course covers additional Financial & Managerial accounting concepts, like: investments in securities, consolidation, non controlling interests, foreign currency transactions. This course also provides deeper presentation & expansions of some of the covered topics in previous Accounting core, like: accounting for leases, accounting for various types of shareholder equity, financial accounting & ESG, IFRS & GAAP differences, and recent changes in global accounting standards.
Key topics & skills
Accounting for Investments in Securities & Consolidation
Non-Controlling Interests & Foreign Currency Transactions
Accounting for Leases & Accounting for Various Types of Shareholder Equity
Financial Accounting & ESG
IFRS & GAAP Differences
Recent Changes in Accounting Standards
Core Course
Fintech
Fintech is disrupting existing financial systems and offering new products and services to the world. This course will bring you up to speed with some of the major technologies and innovations in fintech.
Key topics & skills
Technologies in Fintech—Blockchain & AI
Crypto Currencies & Cashless Payments
Fintech Investing & Raising Capital via Fintech Solutions
Regtech & Contemporary Topics in Fintech
Core Course
Investments
This course will introduce you to the field of investments. You’ll cover risk and returns for individual stocks and bonds, how to diversify risks through portfolios, active versus passive investments, fundamental versus technical analysis, and index and exchange traded funds.
Key topics & skills
Asset Classes & Financial Instruments
Securities Market & Investment Industry, Alternative Investment Approaches, Options & Future Markets
Risk, Return & Diversification
Bond Pricing, Portfolios & Equity Valuation
Capital Asset Pricing & Efficient Market Hypothesis and Macroeconomic & Industry Analysis
Business Challenge
Business Challenge: Impact
Put all your newly acquired knowledge and skills directly into practice at the end of each block through a practical and relevant business challenge. Teams will draw on the content and themes of previous courses in each block to complete challenges involving simulations, executive pitch presentations, innovation hackathons, real company challenges, designing new business models, etc.
Key Topics & Skills
Cross Functional Strategic Decision Making, Planning & Coordination
Analyzing Real & Simulated Business Cases
Team Leadership & Dynamics
Courses and challenges subject to change
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