Master in Finance
Barcelona, Spain
DURATION
12 Months
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 17,900
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Introduction
EAE Business School Barcelona enables you to specialize in finance and applied technology so that you can rise to the biggest challenge in the sector: the effective and innovative financial management of global digital companies.
Such a huge challenge involves acquiring fundamental knowledge at different levels of the business, from the most operational aspects right up to the purest management level, including a command of the essential disruptive technologies for driving forward the Fintech areas in companies.
The program focuses on financial analysis, financing decisions, financial difficulties and the restructuring process, and the Fintech ecosystem (Wealth Tech, Insurtech, Blockchain, etc.), as well as new forms of investment and alternative financing, new payment methods and cryptocurrencies.
Moreover, the Master in Finance & Fintech is designed to develop your analytical and critical capacity to make strategic decisions, not only to survive as a company but to thrive in this changing and complex Fintech ecosystem.
Key Points
1. Disruptive Finance
You will discover alternative financing sources that enable you to develop new projects and keep up with the latest forms of borrowing and crowdfunding.
2. Fintech Track
You will learn about digital financial tools and how new technologies create associations between traditional operators and new fintech companies.
3. Decision-Making
You will learn to spot new opportunities within the fintech ecosystem in order to improve decision-making and optimize the performance of companies.
Admissions
Curriculum
Module 1 - Financial Strategy
Corporate Strategy and Sustainability - 6 ECTS
- Corporate and business strategy
- International strategy
- Economic and financial environment
- Taxation and legal context
- Sustainable investment and socially responsible investment
- Traditional business models versus innovative business models
Financial Engineering - 6 ECTS
- Structuring-modeling techniques for financial engineering
- Quantitative financial analysis
- Cost of money and interest rate (Compound and discount)
- Binomial and Black-Scholes models
- Mathematical and Quantifying Finance
Module 2 - Planning and Control
Financial Planning and Cash Management - 6 ECTS
- Budget Process
- Operational, capital, and teacher budgets
- Financial modelling techniques
- Management of the treasury
- Cash pooling and internal banking
Management Control - 6 ECTS
- Cost accounting and management accounting
- Activity-based cost system
- Relevant and irrelevant costs for decision-making
- Measurement of results
- Balanced Scorecard (Financial Perspective)
- Dashboard (KPIs)
Module 3 - Corporate Finance
Financial Analysis and Business Valuation - 6 ECTS
- Main financial statements
- Reformulation and analysis of the profit and loss account
- Analysis of the balance sheet
- Working capital management
- Ratio Analysis and Financial Diagnosis
- Cost of capital and value creation
- Valuation of companies
Corporate Finance - 6 ECTS
- The restructuring processes
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Audit of purchases (Due Diligence)
- Legal and fiscal aspects in the restructuring process
- Internal and external financing
- Venture capital and alternative financing
Module 4 - Risk Management
Markets and Financial Tools - 6 ECTS
- Primary versus secondary market: initial public offering
- Macroeconomic factors and actors in financial markets
- Interbank market
- Digital financial services
- Fixed and variable income assets
- Optimization of short-term assets
- Factoring and confirming
Risk Analysis and Portfolio Management - 6 ECTS
- Investment valuation and sustainable investment criteria
- Automated asset management
- Operational, market, and country risk
- Financial and operational risk models
- Variance and covariance (Standard deviation)
- Modern portfolio theory
- Risk-adjusted profitability measures
- Investment funds
Master's Thesis
15 ECTS
It’s not just the research paper you need to do in order to get your master’s degree — it’s the right time and the right place for you to combine your academic experience with your professional ambition, personal vision and creativity. It’s your chance to put everything you’ve been learning into practice and to work in order to get to where you want to be.
Rankings
- #5 in Spain - QS
- #3 in Spain - El Mundo
- #6 in Spain - EdUniversal Ranking Best Masters
Career Opportunities
There are many professional paths you can choose and we’ll be there, right next to you, no matter which one you choose
You will get a tailor-made career plan from our Careers department and our Entrepreneur department, with personalised services for academic training and guidance that will multiply your professional opportunities and extend them to any country in the world
55% of Our Students find Opportunities before Graduation and 45% After
- Financial Manager
- Corporate Financial Consultant
- M&A Analyst
- Financial Risks Manager
- Financial Advisor
- Financial institution employee
- Fintech employee
- Entrepreneurs interested in investing in the Fintech and Blockchain sector
- Manager of Bank Accounts
- Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Program Leaders
English Language Requirements
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Program Admission Requirements
Show your commitment and readiness for Grad school by taking the GRE - the most broadly accepted exam for graduate programs internationally.