Master of Science [M.S] [Finance for Professionals] From Pace University

Designed for people already working in a business or financial environment with a need to enhance their expertise in this area, this one-year online program with weekend residencies covers the latest trends in corporate finance, financial statement analysis, and statistics; investments, portfolio theory, and money and capital markets; fixed income analysis and quantitative methods; international finance; and risk management and corporate diversification.

Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the program, students will be able to:

• Apply the basic concepts in corporate finance: Capital budgeting techniques such as the net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), adjusted net present value model (ANPV), and the profitability index (PI) are covered in this module.
• Perform bond valuation and equity valuation.
• Discuss corporate governance and how it impacts the firm.
• Apply the concepts of dividend policy and capital structure.
• Describe trade offs of financing projects with debt or equity.
• Analyze financial statements and their applications to finance.
• Use financial databases as CRSP, Compustat, Global Insight, Bloomberg, and others.
• Apply statistical analysis: standard deviation, variance, covariance, and correlation coefficients.
• Apply the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), factor models, and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT).
• Use regression analysis in corporate finance.
• Use Excel including statistical functions and regression analysis.