Main Goals

- Ensuring for the students a fundamental learning in business administration that is orientated basically to corporate finance.
- Mastering the techniques of financial engineering and the risk management at the national and international level.
Job Opportunities
The job opportunities include many key positions in the financial and accounting department, alongside with other key positions in banks and insurance companies. 

Targeted Audience

The students that can be interested in this Master are those that have a B.A. in economics, accountancy, finance, and who are motivated to get involved in finance. Furthermore, the Master is devoted to the people who are already working in financial institutions, banks, and corporations and who want to deepen their practical and theoretical knowledge.
                                              

CURRICULUM

• Actuarial Analysis

Advanced aspects of mathematical finance, investment-financing decisions, bonds, real-world applications using computer packages.

• Accounting and financial analysis

This course is focussed on the deep analysis of financial statements and the conveying of financial information arisng from them.

• Corporate business runing

This course develops some facets of the corporate business running with some in-depth focus on the most important departments.
  

• Financial Management

This course develops the problems of investment decisions making using conventional and recent crioteria. 

• Financial Analysis

Return, efficiency, and structure analyzes of the firm are run in the perspective of assessing the financial health and inferreing relevant information to shareholders and the firm’s partners.

• Practical Cases

       Practical cases linking between theory and real problems in the professional world.

• Financial Diagnostic of financially-distresed firms

This course deals with the financial analysis of financially-distressed firms and how implementing CHAPTER 11 becomes possible in the light of their distress. It also advances their return analysis using the commonly-used financial ratios.
   

• Corporations and groups valuation

The problem of valuing the corporations and groups is an old and recent topic at the same time. In fact, this course expounds the standard valuation methods and extends them to cover the recent developments in the field. Practical case studies are also used.

• Indebtedness and financila structure

The theoretical and empirical problems are discussed to shed light on the optimal financial structure and the consequence of changing the capital structure ratio.

• Takeovers and Mergers & Acquisitions

This course presents the economics of mergers and acquisitions and takeovers that are present in the market.

• Corporate valuation : récents développements

Presenting and explaining the techniques for the valuation, e.g., free cash flow, discounted cash flow, real options, etc.

• Les opérations de privatisation et de rapprochement des sociétés   

Panorama détaillé des différents opérations de rapprochement (OPA, OPE, fusions/ acquisitions)
Etudier les parités d’échange, les montages financiers, etc.

• Computerized applications and NTIC (New Information and Communication Technologies)

This course analyses jointly the role of new information and communication technologies in shaping the new context of corporations. Many computer applications are used for corroboration.

• Financial and Accounting Packages

Introduction to Risk Metrics, Credit Metrics, Bloomberg, Reuters, Condor, etc.

• Three-month training

The professional training period lasts three months in a privately-held or publicly-traded corporation.

• A dissertation

 
The dissertation must focus on a recent topic that is simultaneously related to theory and practice.