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Knowledge and understanding:
Master's degree graduates should be able to acquire an advanced level of preparation that allows for an articulate and integrated view of the finance issues of companies, financial intermediaries, financial institutions and markets. These learning outcomes are achieved through an advanced knowledge and understanding
- of the economic-financial planning and evaluation of new investments;
- of the characteristics associated with extraordinary moments in corporate management, such as capital transactions, recourse to financial markets, mergers and acquisitions, corporate crisis and reorganisation;
- the problems and techniques of the organisation and financial management of companies and financial intermediaries;
- the fundamentals of corporate finance for the correct application of, for example, decision-making models and financial data and risk management to treasury management;
- the management and economic models of the different types of intermediaries, market microstructure, the operational efficiency of financial markets and the impact of financial markets on the economic conditions of intermediaries;
- a wide range of investment, financing and risk management instruments, starting with the fundamentals of portfolio diversification and classical asset pricing and risk measurement models;
- the specific finance-related topics that characterise the profession of financial analyst, portfolio manager, chief financial officer (CFO), chief administrative officer, controller, internal auditor and business consultant."
Master's graduates should be able to acquire knowledge of economic-quantitative models that enable them to address management issues of companies, financial intermediaries, financial institutions and markets. These learning outcomes are achieved through an advanced knowledge and understanding
- of the theories and tools for the economic analysis of the company and the market;
- of the basic forecasting models for carrying out integrated economic and financial analyses, also making use of econometric time series and multivariate analysis methodologies
- of Big Data analysis techniques in order to support and integrate business decision-making processes."
Applying knowledge and understanding:
Ability to apply knowledge in the area of Finance to be able to carry out an analysis of complex problems in a national and international interdisciplinary context
Ability to apply knowledge in the area of Finance for the design and implementation of corporate restructuring and other extraordinary operations
Ability to apply knowledge in the area of Finance for the identification, evaluation and management of investments in financial markets
Ability to apply knowledge in the area of Finance for the design of coherent financial management strategies in companies or financial intermediaries, competently applying acquired knowledge in risk management techniques, asset valuation, handling of derivatives
Ability to apply knowledge in the area of Economic Analysis for understanding the evolution of financial markets and changes in the international macroeconomic environment
Ability to apply knowledge in the area of Economic Analysis for the analysis of economic, managerial and financial variables to support the decisions of companies and financial intermediaries
Ability to apply knowledge in the area of Economic Analysis to be able to frame and evaluate situations and problems in a critical manner and based on scientific methods in a multidisciplinary perspective, thanks to a training that integrates business, economic, legal, financial and statistical-mathematical disciplines
Making judgements:
Ability to apply the knowledge acquired to make managerial and operational decisions and to solve problems in the administration and finance of companies, intermediaries and financial markets, jointly taking into account multiple perspectives of analysis, from the economic to the legal, financial, strategic, managerial.
Ability to select data and use appropriate information to describe a problem concerning the management of companies, intermediaries and financial markets.
Ability to relate models and empirical evidence in the study of companies, intermediaries and financial markets.
Communication skills:
Ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form the specialised contents of the individual disciplines, using different registers according to the recipients and the communicative and didactic purposes, and to evaluate the formative effects of its communication
Learning skills:
a) ability to use information technology autonomously to carry out bibliographical research and investigations and for one's own training and updating
b) ability to identify thematic links and establish relationships between different cases and contexts of analysis
c) ability to frame a new problem systematically and to generate appropriate taxonomies
d) ability to develop general models from the phenomena studied.