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Blended Postgraduate Course in International Finance
Blended Postgraduate Course in International Finance
With the Blended Postgraduate Course in International Finance you will acquire the knowledge required to align the evolution of the economic and financial environment with the management of companies operating globally.
The Blended Postgraduate Course in International Finance will train you as an expert in finance and accounting, especially in companies with a strong international presence. Basic aspects such as detailed information on international accounting regulations, multinational financial management, or international taxation will be covered.
Throughout the course, international financial reporting standards, aspects related to the financing of international operations, and the most common management control systems in multinational companies will be dealt with in detail. You will acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the functioning of international accounting regulations (IFRS) and an understanding of the elements required for optimum decision-making in investment and finance in international settings.
The course will also provide you with the ability to design the optimum tax plan for a company, taking matters of international taxation into consideration and the understanding of the functioning of foreign currency accounts and the most appropriate financial products to manage exchange rate, interest rate, and country risk.
Collaborators:
Why choose this program
Excellent teaching staff with a double approach
The program has a first-rate academic board and teaching staff, composed of academics from the Department of Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University, and professionals from the main companies in the sector.
Adapted to you
Same program, content, and academic qualification, offered in three different modalities: face-to-face, blended, and online to adapt to your personal and professional situation.
Complete your studies
If at the end of the postgraduate course you want to complete your training, you can apply for the Master in Financial and Accounting Management at UPF-BSM, which recognizes the credits obtained in the Postgraduate course.
Who is it for?
The program is aimed at university graduates preferably in the area of business administration and management, economics, and accounting and finance, who want to specialize in the financial field, as well as professionals with financial experience who need to update or gain new knowledge.
It is an advanced program and it is important to have previous training and/or experience in the area.
Curriculum
The Postgraduate course has 5 elective subjects of which 3 must be chosen, and is complemented by a Final Project in which the student applies the knowledge of the contents acquired during the course.
Qualification obtained
Once you have passed the program, you will be awarded the degree of Curso de Postgrado en Finanzas Internacionales, issued by Pompeu Fabra University.
Faculty
Academic directors
Vice Dean for Research and Knowledge Transfer at UPF Barcelona School of Management
Senior Lecturer BSM
Faculty
Senior Lecturer BSM
Senior Lecturer BSM
- Jordi Anducas Planas
Technical Manager in RSM SPAIN AUDITORES.
Postgraduate course in Auditing from UAB. Executive Development Program from Esade. - Tomàs Casanovas Martínez
Master of Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde - Glasgow
President of the company ENERSIDE - Pau Guerrero Vilà
Corporate Financial Director at Cervino Corporation.
Executive MBA from IESE.
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). He also holds a Bachelor in Administration and Business Management and a Bachelor in Law from Pompeu Fabra University. - Pablo Lázaro Ardila
Partner of Plana Abogados & Economistas.
Degree in Law from the University of Barcelona (San Pablo).
Methodology
The program has a very practical and professional approach. Theory and practice are combined with a participatory methodology that integrates the exposition of theoretical concepts by the teachers with the active intervention of the participants.
Adapted to you
Compatible with your professional and personal life, offering you face-to-face classes one Friday/Saturday a month, combined with online work.
Linked with the professional world
Throughout the course, real and current practical cases will be worked on and discussed, allowing you to apply the concepts learned and to face possible situations and scenarios that you will find in your professional activity.
Team building
Working in groups will allow you to share and compare different views, knowledge and opinions with classmates from diverse origins. This will enhance your academic experience and strengthen your networking.
Evaluation
Continuous assessment. The following are common evaluation activities:
- Case studies, exercises, and activities
- Tests
- Oral presentations and active participation in class
- Class attendance (minimum 80%)
- Final Project
Tools
The combination of online learning and face-to-face sessions favours the balance between theory and practice in a flexible learning process. The various multimedia resources that are made available to the student allow them to acquire knowledge in a self-regulated manner and the face-to-face sessions seek to put them into practice with active methodologies.
You will have:
- Digital resources and audiovisual blocks for online learning
- Face-to-face sessions with active methodologies for transferable learning
- Master's or postgraduate work to learn by doing
- A personal mentor to monitor your Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgraduate Final Project (TFP)
Professional Future
The program is aimed at all those professionals with experience in the field of Accounting and Finance who want to take on new challenges and responsibilities in this area in companies with a strong international presence.
Student profile
You will be in class with professionals coming from the area of Accounting and Finance, Economics, or Business Administration who want to learn and acquire new knowledge to apply it in their current jobs.
The Postgraduate is part of the Master's in Financial and Accounting Management thus, the class will be composed of students coming from both the Postgraduate and the Master's programs.
Career opportunities
The postgraduate course is advanced training that focuses on the main aspects of finance to prioritize professional careers in this area, specially in global firms or companies operating internationally.
- Auditor of multinational companies' accounts
- Department of international operations
- Financial Director of a multinational company
- Business consultant on international accounting and tax matters
- Financial consultant
- Staff/intermediate manager in multinational Financial Department
Admission and enrolment
To apply for admission to this program, the candidate must read and accept the General Contract Conditions, after starting the application for admission through the admission form.
Who can apply?
University graduates or graduates with a university degree.
Likewise, other candidates will be able to access the selection process without the required university degree due to their professional or academic merits, and the place they work.
Knowledge of English: those students who are not native English speakers will be asked for at least B2 English (CEFR). Participants who have English as their native language will not have to submit any certificates.
How to apply?
To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through the following form.
Application for admission
Complete your application within the next admission rounds:
| Round | Application deadline | Admission resolution |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11/11/2020 | 26/11/2020 |
| 2 | 03/12/2020 | 18/12/2020 |
| 3 | 17/12/2020 | 31/12/2020 |
| 4 | 12/01/2021 | 28/01/2021 |
| 5 | 02/02/2021 | 17/02/2021 |
| 6 | 23/02/2021 | 10/03/2021 |
| 7 | 16/03/2021 | 31/03/2021 |
| 8 | 08/04/2021 | 23/04/2021 |
| 9 | 27/04/2021 | 12/05/2021 |
| 10 | 13/05/2021 | 28/05/2021 |
| 11 | 27/05/2021 | 11/06/2021 |
| 12 | 08/06/2021 | 23/06/2021 |
| 13 | 22/06/2021 | 07/07/2021 |
| 14 | 06/07/2021 | 21/07/2021 |
| 15 | 20/07/2021 | 30/07/2021 |
| 16 | 02/09/2021 | 17/09/2021 |
| 17 | 16/09/2021 | 01/10/2021 |
| 18 | 05/10/2021 | 20/10/2021 |
| 19 | 21/10/2021 | 05/11/2021 |
Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:
- Complete the online admission form.
- Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
- Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)
Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Application rounds are subject to the number of places available on the program.
Admission
- The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
- You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.
Enrolment
- Registration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
- Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
- If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.
- Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
- If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 3331.
- The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Beca UPF-BSM
Apply for one of our UPF-BSM Scholarships, awarded specifically to Pompeu Fabra University students with a good academic record.
If you are studying your last undergraduate course (4th year) at UPF or at a UPF Group centre and you have a good record, you can apply for a UPF-BSM scholarship. Remember that you must be a graduate and be in possession of your degree (or failing that, the certificate of receipt) when you start the program in which you have enrolled.
- Be in the last undergraduate year at UPF.
- Have a good academic record.
- Have been admitted or are in the process of admission to a Master or Postgraduate course for which you are applying for this Scholarship.
- Apply for the Scholarship at the time of application for admission.
- Submit a motivation letter with the reasons why you have opted for the Scholarship and a list of verifiable merits.
- Upload the required documentation through the eRegistrar platform
- The dates of awarding or denying of the Scholarship will be published on the website.
- The scholarship candidate will personally receive a communication with the procedures to follow in order to formalize it.
- The Scholarship Committee assesses academic talent (average grade of the report) and personal talent (the motivation of the candidate and their merits).
- The UPF-BSM Scholarships are not compatible with specific aid for the programs, scholarships granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and other UPF-BSM scholarships.
- They are compatible with other scholarships from organizations outside the UPF-BSM and with discounts for large families.
They are applied for and granted in accordance with the dates stipulated below:
Academic year programs 2020–21 and 2021–22
- Scholarship application deadline: 03/12/2020, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 14/12/2020
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 06/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 01/11/2021
Remember that you must apply for the scholarship when you complete the application for admission to the program that interests you and always before classes start. The Scholarship cannot be processed for a program that is already being studied.
If you have any questions about how to apply for the UPF-BSM Scholarships, you can contact our scholarship secretariat via email.
Social Value Scholarships
UPF Barcelona School of Management, for this next academic year, and aiming at the commitment for social welfare, offers the Social Value Scholarships with the objective of supporting and favoring the groups that the School considers a priority. Enter and consult the details.
These scholarships are intended to favor specific groups, to help them in their professional and personal development or people who are in a situation of economic difficulty.
The Social Value Scholarship program covers from 25% to 70% of the total tuition fee for the master's degree and from 25% to 50% of the total tuition fee for the diploma or postgraduate course for all the programs offered by the Institute of Continuing Education Foundation.
The University Master's Degree in Law and any other master’s degree carried out in conjunction with an institution outside the UPF-BSM are excluded. Also excluded are programs for which the interested party wishes to carry out any recognition. Repeating students will also not be eligible for the scholarship.
- "Impulsa MUJER" (“Promote Woman”)
Aimed at all professional women, from any environment, who wish to study a management program in any area of the company, to occupy leadership positions or to lead a professional project.
Sporty woman: Specifically addressed at professional sportswomen interested in studying the master’s degree in Sports Management in any of its modalities. - "Post COVID boost"
Aimed at people over 40 who are unemployed or in ERTE. ERTE is a term used in Spain to refer to the suspension for a specific time of the labor contract of part or all the workers of a company due to force majeure. This temporary suspension of the contract has been applied in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains in effect until the Government and the Employer decide. - "Entrepreneur Scholarship for local economy"
Aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses with a direct impact on the local economy and regions that need specific training to boost business.
- You must have applied for admission into one of the master's offered by the UPF Barcelona School of Management (except the Official Master's Program in Advocacy or those master's) and have been admitted to the program for which the grant is being requested.
- Present a letter of motivation with the reasons why you are applying for the scholarship with a list of merits or outstanding aspects that can be contrasted.
Consult the specific criteria for each of the modalities in the rules.
Submit your application for the Social Value Scholarship via the "Application form" of the program that you are interested in.
Submit the documentation via the "Scholarships and Funding" section of the eRegistar platform, to which you will be given access when applying
Please note that your application must meet all the requirements for both documentation and deadlines. Otherwise, it cannot be evaluated.
All documents except for the academic transcript must be in either Catalan, Spanish or English. The academic transcript can be presented in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese. If it is another language it must be accompanied by a sworn official translation into Catalan or Spanish.
Social Value Scholarship applications have to be made at the same time as completing your application for the program and always before classes begin. Social Value Scholarships cannot be processed for a master's program that has already begun.
Equally, applications presented after the deadlines of the established rounds will not be accepted, even if classes have not yet begun.
Social Value Scholarship are applied for and awarded according to the dates outlined below.:
Programmes for the academic year 2021-2022
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 01/11/2021
The Scholarship Committee will only award Social Value Scholarships to those applicants who, having completed the corresponding documentation and been finally admitted to the program for which they are applying, have passed the various tests that may be requested and meet the criteria established in each established typology in which they wish to enter.
The Scholarship Committee will inform each applicant of the decision individually by e-mail, following the dates published on the website.
If you have any questions about how to apply for a Talent Scholarship, do not hesitate to contact our Scholarship Information Office. You can also consult the competition rules here.
Grants and discounts
UPF Employee Discounts
If you are a member or family member of an employee of the UPF group or belonged to the collaborating institutions of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, you can enjoy a series of applicable discounts on the tuition fees for your program.
- Administrative and Service Staff (PAS) of Pompeu Fabra University. You are entitled to a 35% discount on tuition fees for open programs subject to prior communication from the rector's office and/or the UPF general manager's office.
- Administrative and Service Staff (PAS) and Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) of the UPF Group. Discount of 20% on tuition fees for open programs.
- Relatives (up to second degree) of UPF and the UPF's Institute of Continuing Education's Foundation teaching and research staff (PAS and PDI, in Spanish). Discount of 20% on tuition fees for open programs.
- If you work at a company member of the Institute of Continuing Education Foundation's Board of Trustees or at any of our councils' companies. Discount of 20% on the tuition fees of our master's and postgraduate courses.
ACCID discount
Members of the ACCID will have a 10% discount on the registration fee.
Members of the Catalan Association of Accounting and Management (ACCID) will have a 10% discount on the registration fee. Discount cannot be combined with other applicable discounts. This discount cannot be requested once the program has started.
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management collaborates with various banks and financial entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links (in Spanish).
Note, however, that in order to benefit from these special conditions you must have a NIE if you are not a European Citizen. Therefore, UPF Barcelona School of Management strongly recommends international students to seek first for students loans at bank entities of their country of origin, or to search for funding opportunities through international entities.
The Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of Catalonia (AGAUR, in Spanish) also offers loans to university students with legal residence in Catalonia through the PREPOST program.
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