Corporate Finance

AIB’s Corporate Finance MBA subject is invaluable for finance professionals, senior leaders, board members, business owners, and startup founders. 

It provides a strong foundation for careers in financial analysis, investment banking, and risk management by equipping individuals with essential skills to manage financial operations effectively. This subject is also crucial for leaders and board members, offering the financial acumen needed to make strategic decisions and drive organisational success. Entrepreneurs will benefit from understanding funding sources and managing startup finances. 

In essence, anyone aiming to run a business or make informed, rational financial decisions will gain from studying Corporate Finance, gaining both risk management skills and a strategic mindset. 

It’s not. Any prior experience in finance will be helpful, but it’s certainly not required. Within your MBA timetable, AIB’s core finance subject Financial Management will be completed before you undertake Corporate Finance, should you choose it as an elective or if you’re specialising your MBA in finance. 

 Corporate Finance extends the skills, knowledge and application for Financial Management in the areas of capital budgeting, capital structure and business payout policies, among others. 

We recognise that finance can often seem daunting. So, we have adopted a simplistic and holistic approach, focusing on the application of concepts. This ensures that the subject is accessible and highly relevant to your daily roles, whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a finance professional seeking to deepen your expertise. 

When financial calculations are required, it’s completed using Excel spreadsheets with equations and formulas shown in subject webinars and practiced first in learning activities each week, so you interact with any complex example problems first at your own pace before practical implementation. 

Corporate Finance is delivered over eight weeks of structured learning where you’ll delve into a new topic relevant to finance in a corporate setting each week. Weekly online webinars are hosted with your online class and led by Online Learning Facilitators who facilitate interactive discussions on the topics, case studies and application of concepts within organisations. Contribution in live webinars enables you to learn not only from the learning material and facilitator, but also from the experiences and viewpoints of fellow professionals studying alongside you. Don’t worry if you can’t make all the live webinars though – they’re recorded, so you can watch at any time.  

Yes, AIB offers an MBA specialisation in Finance which supports experienced and aspiring finance professionals to excel their careers in the sector. Covering more than just the numbers, this specialised MBA guides students through the universally used theoretical frameworks and data-driven techniques relevant to modern private sector companies, the public sector and not-for-profit organisations.   

Studying the specialised Finance MBA, students will take AIB’s core business subjects before undertaking the finance discipline units: Corporate Finance, Investment Management and Financial Markets and Institutions while gaining and up-to-date and holistic business education through the rest of AIB’s core MBA subjects.   The specialised finance subjects can also be studied as electives by those undertaking the General (unspecialised) MBA. 

Learn more about the MBA (Finance).

If you’re interested in studying Corporate Finance within the AIB MBA, get in touch with an AIB Enrolment Advisor to discuss your application and timetabling.