Strategic Financial Management
Curriculum
Required Courses
This course explores money management and financial trading from the behavioral finance perspective. It is designed to teach you the biases that influence decision-making processes and how to apply this knowledge to make rational choices with lasting impacts across a range of investment scenarios.
You Will Learn To:
- Identify and understand the psychology behind financial decisions made by business leaders and investors.
- Neutralize relevant biases.
- Encourage and execute better financial decisions.
- Explain the consumer choice theory.
- Differentiate mental models related to behavioral finance.
Corporate Financial Strategy will teach you to evaluate levels of risk and rates of return on corporate investments and resource allocations. The course allows you to delve into real-world case studies of organizational strategy, where you will analyze successful approaches and failures, and uncover the reasons behind their outcomes. You will also learn to recognize potential threats and opportunities impacting your organization and use these insights to create and implement effective financial strategies.
You Will Learn To:
- Describe an organization's main activities, including operations, establishing goals and strategies, making investments, and obtaining financing.
- Define the core statements organizations use to measure and report financial performance.
- Examine mergers and acquisitions, financial decision-making, debt, and corporate restructuring in a global context.
Our Decision-Making and Risk Management course focuses on the key concepts, definitions, principles, and practices in risk management from the perspectives of the corporation, the market, and the regulator. Topics include corporate risk governance and enterprise risk management, assessment of risk at the corporate and capital allocation level, risk management products and structures, tools for decision-making in risk management, and regulatory risk monitoring and compliance. The course will be taught based on Harvard Business Review (HBR) cases and articles on financial risk management.
You will learn to:
- Analyze problems using decision-making criteria and theories.
- Explore regulatory requirements, processes, and compliance.
- Model different types of risks and decisions to forecast potential outcomes.
- Understand the principles of, and apply techniques and technologies for, risk management.
- Use the characteristics of uncertainty to make educated decisions.
Our Fintech course focuses on applying the fundamentals to different areas like risk modeling, banking, and market microstructure. You will discover the impact of fintech from multiple perspectives—investor, corporate, and consumer—and learn about the regulation behind it. This course gives you the opportunity to learn through practical case studies included in every module that will help you understand fintech with real-world examples that can then be applied within your working environment.
You will learn to:
- Describe the digital transformation of the financial services sector.
- Advocate for fintech technologies and their disruptive power.
- Increase your employability in a rapidly expanding field.
- Implement real-world fintech innovations in your working environment.
Our Machine Learning for Finance course focuses on collecting, organizing, and using data to perform advanced financial analysis with algorithms and statistical techniques and tools. Throughout the course, you will work through real-life case studies and examples giving you an opportunity to practically apply the theory you will be taught to financial models.
You Will Learn To:
- Apply basic concepts of probability and statistics to finance.
- Understand what exploratory data analysis is and how to perform it with Python and Pandas.
- Engineer new features and functions from existing data.
- Comprehend how unsupervised machine-learning models work and when they can be useful.
Methodologies and Techniques
Pandas
Python
Online Format Features
- Self-paced interactive learning modules with a variety of engaging learning activities, assignments, and resources.
- Live sessions that bring you, your peers, and your instructor together to learn collaboratively about the current state of the field, engage with real-world problems, and explore authentic solutions.
- Continuous support from your instructional assistant, who will accompany you on your journey through the content, answer your questions, and provide feedback on your work.