Cases in Financial Management and Policy (BS0059)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : MSE-P-BS0059

The course is designed to extend and deepen an understanding of a range of financial management and management policy issues in the areas of corporate strategy with special reference to financial markets. It uses a case study approach and invites student presentations. As the course is case-based each case provides a separate and independent topic area, although the common thread of financial analysis, in part, and corporate policy links them. The overriding element is the requirement to analyse, appraise, evaluate and resolve a critical issue or set of issues in the case. The case method provides a proxy for the kinds of situations managers have to contend with in steering the organisation, and which require choices to be made between alternative courses of action.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : PGs Only

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Business Studies, (Management School and Economics, Schedule H)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? Contact Teaching Time : 5 hour(s) per week for 5 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding:
Upon completing the course class participants should be able to:
-demonstrate an increased understanding of decision-making processes in organisations
- understand the key assumptions required in deriving a solution to an open-ended problem
-compensate in decision-making for incomplete information
-point to a better understanding of the criteria used in determining a course of action
-apply evaluative techniques to management problems
-make use of analytic skills that are specific to financial management

Assessment Information

Assessment is through written reports on each of the four assessed cases. These assignments provide an opportunity to assess skills in tackling business problems and issues surrounding a particular problem in financial management and policy. As stated below, class participants are expected to write reports on each of the four assessed cases, with the best three being used to determine the overall course grade. There is no examination.