Courses

This course is designed for finance students and teaches them to think like a CFO, using financial information to make sharp, effective management decisions. Students will learn to translate complex data into actionable strategies that create value and drive organisational success. The course focus on the core pillars of financial management, including mastering analysis and forecasting to diagnose business health, developing skills in capital budgeting to evaluate major investments and financing options, and understanding strategic financial policy. The course emphasises a practical, real-world approach by integrating external market and competitor data to benchmark performance, preparing students to make the sound financial judgments essential for a successful career in finance.

10 lectures (15 hours total), features optional in-class case studies, and concludes with a final written examination.

This course builds upon foundational accounting knowledge to provide a critical understanding of how to prepare and analyse financial statements in a global business environment. Students will move beyond basic principles to explore the complexities of reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), preparing them to make informed economic decisions in an international context. Students will come to understand the crucial role of IFRS in bringing transparency, accountability, and efficiency to world financial markets. From the perspective of an investor or manager, participants will learn to analyse complex international financial statements and evaluate the risks involved in using this information for economic decision-making. The course also explores vital contemporary topics, including the growing importance of communicating sustainability information within financial reports and the inherent limitations of current reporting frameworks.

14 lectures (21 hours total) plus tutorials, features in-class exercises, and concludes with a final written examination.

This MBA course treats managerial accounting as a vital tool for strategic leadership, teaching students to leverage internal financial data for planning, operational control, and executive decision-making. The course focuses on translating complex cost data into actionable intelligence, covering key frameworks like Cost-Volume-Profit (CVP) analysis, the strategic impact of operating leverage, and modern costing systems including Activity-Based Costing (ABC), Job Order, and Process Costing. A final focus is on planning and control through the construction and analysis of the master budget, from sales forecasts to the final cash budget, to effectively coordinate business activities.

6 lectures (9 hours total), features optional in-class case studies and take home projects, and concludes with a final written examination.