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MA Public Opinion and Political Behaviour
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Year 1, Component 09

MA211-7-SP or MA312-7-SP
MA211-7-SP
Finance and Financial Reporting
(15 CREDITS)

What instruments are used by companies to raise finance and manage financial risk? What is the role of financial institutions operating in financial markets? What are the techniques of financial accounting? How do you use spreadsheets in financial analysis? Examine and develop the concepts and elements of corporate finance.

MA312-7-SP
Contingencies II
(15 CREDITS)

What methods are available to model cashflows that are contingent on competing risk? What techniques for discounted emerging costs can be used in pricing, reserving and assessing profitability? Study the methods and techniques used in pricing and valuation of insurance policies and products, putting emphasis on those involving multiple lives.

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