Financial Management Graduate Certificate

Available online or on campus, the Graduate Certificate in Financial Management at Boston University’s Metropolitan College (MET) is designed to provide leaders and managers throughout an organization with essential skills for making intelligent business decisions. Those who complete the program—from students who are interested in a financial services career to professionals in the financial services industry and those who are responsible for making financial decisions—will be qualified for positions in cash management, capital budgeting, and risk management.

By taking the required courses for BU MET’s Financial Management graduate certificate, you will receive a strong foundation in financial theory, acquire technical skills for developing analytical approaches, and improve your critical thinking abilities through hands-on coursework and real-world case studies.

The Financial Management certificate is excellent preparation for the internationally recognized Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) Program exams, and shares courses with BU MET’s MS in Financial Management, which is part of the CFA Institute University Affiliation Program.

Students who complete the Graduate Certificate in Financial Management will be able to demonstrate:

• Expertise in how financial markets function, including the major participants, procedures for assessing and pricing risk, and market roles in the allocation of credit to various financial sectors.
• Comprehension of the goals and functions of financial management.
• Skills in financial analysis and planning, working capital management, and the capital budgeting process.
• Knowledge of long-term financing.
• Proficiency in the overall investment process and the key elements involved in the investment process such as asset allocation and security selection.
• Understanding of debt, equity, and derivatives securities.
• The ability to construct portfolios of different risk levels, given information about risk-free rates and returns on risky assets.
• Full understanding of systematic and firm-specific risk, and portfolio diversification.
• Insight on the concept and usage of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).
• Experience with the calculation of bond prices including accrued interest, promised yields, and realized yields.
• Competence with active bond portfolio management.
• Familiarity with how to analyze a firm using the basic financial statements to perform ratio analysis.
• Understanding of mergers and acquisitions through the case study methodology.

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