Course Objectives
Train highly-qualified professionals with technical and management skills, ideal for future professional careers in the financial world.

Target Public
University graduates who wish to orientate their professional activities towards any of the finances branches and who wish to start a highly demanding course with respect to time, dedication and level.

Professional openings
Credit entities, securities firms or agencies, pensions and investment funds agents, corporate financial departments, insurance companies, consultants and any entity linked to financing and investment

Access Conditions
University graduate. Knowledge of English. Approval by the Admissions Committee.

Programme Structure
The Programme is structured into two large blocks:

Main Area and Specialisation Areas
After finishing the block of main areas, the block of specialisation areas is addressed where the student will choose the subjects that he / she finds more interesting, in agreement with their professional vocation.

Programme 

Block of main areas

Instrumental Techniques Area (150 hours)

- Analysis and diagnosis of financial statements
- Quantitative methods: business and financial statistics and econometrics
- Economic environment: situational and structural macro and microeconomic analysis
- Financial operations mathematics

System and Financial Markets System (180 hours)

- Financial System: basics and descriptive analysis
- Monetary markets
- Currency markets
- Derivative instruments

Supplementary Subjects Area (80 hours)

- Legal framework and taxation of financial operations
- Financial business ethics
- Management and business and financial marketing

Support area, Assessment and Debate (90 hours)

- Advanced management and practice of computer applications and new technologies
- Financial English
- Work sessions and debate
- Assessment tests and studies
- Supplementary and currently relevant conferences

Block of specialisation areas

Area of financial entities and markets (150 hours)

- Advanced stock exchange analysis
- Quantitative tools for modelling financial markets
- Portfolio management and control: benchmarking and reporting
- Financial risk analysis, control and management
- Financial planning
- Management, strategy, banking products: t-banking and e-banking
- Theory of insurance and management of insurance entities

Area of Business and Corporate Finances (150 hours)

- Business financial management
- Cash management in the company
- Economic-financial diagnosis
- Economic and financial planning and strategy
- Business financial structure creation workshop

Start: Barcelona , October of 2009
Duration: 700 hours of lessons. From October 2009 to June 2010
Hours: From Mondays to Fridays and from 8:30 to 14:30 hours
Fees: 8,500 euros (year 2007)
Place: IEF classrooms, Gran Vía, 670 2º - 08010 Barcelona

Qualification
Master in Finances from the Institute for Financial Studies and from the Applied Finances School (Analysts Group)

Periodically there are information sessions
Attendance confirmation Tel. 93 412 44 31