Overview
The Principles of Finance professional graduate certificate is offered by Harvard University.
Key learning outcomes:
- Enhance your knowledge of the tools and analysis methods used in business, finance, and the economy through accounting, finance, and economics.
- Learn the accounting principles required for informed managerial decisions, such as cost terminology, cost behavior, cost systems, activity-based costing, budgeting, cost-volume-profit analysis, cost estimating, variance analysis, and responsibility accounting.
- Develop knowledge of the agents, instruments, and institutions that make up the financial system of the modern economy, such as bonds, the stock market, derivatives, and the money market.
- Develop an understanding of economic principles and methods, such as microeconomic theory, market theory, optimization, bargaining theory, externalities, and how they apply to business and the economy.
- Gain expertise in a focused topic area, such as capital markets and investments, investment banking, valuation, risk management, and nonprofit financial management.
To meet the requirements for the certificate, you must:
- Complete four certificate courses for graduate credit.
- Earn at least a B grade in each course.
- Complete the courses within three years.
Programme Structure
The professional graduate certificate in Principles of Finance requires four courses:
- Finance
- Accounting
- Economics
- Elective
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 18 months
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Finance Actuarial Science View 895 other Masters in Finance in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any academic requirements for this programme.
English requirements
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General requirements
No application is required. You simply register for graduate courses during our fall, spring, or summer registration periods.
Tuition Fee
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International
8266 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 12400 USD for the full programme during 18 months. -
National
8266 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 12400 USD for the full programme during 18 months.
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Funding
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