The Finance and Strategic Management concentration gives you state-of-the-art analytical techniques and approaches to assist in financial and strategic decisions. The concentration provides the necessary insight and skills to determine whether these decisions are appropriate in an overall strategic context. In addition to learning about finance and strategy, you will study the important links between them.

The interaction between finance and strategic management is important since corporate financial managers and finance executives are often confronted with issues that may have important strategic consequences for their enterprises. Hence, there is a need to embrace key perspectives from the disciplines of finance and management.

One of the central roles of management policy and strategy is to integrate the various functional areas of a corporation in order to achieve a successful market position and operational fulfilment. In this respect, different areas in the field of finance provide disciplined analytical techniques to support internal corporate decision processes and market analyses. These techniques help to assess a corporation’s ability in responding to external environmental conditions.

You acquire not only an in-depth knowledge of strategic management and corporate strategy, but you also learn to use theory to analyse financial and strategic issues as well as corporate setting.