ACT Educational Trust - University Prize Scheme

The ACT University Prize is provided by the ACT Educational Trust which is a registered charity that provides support to educational projects and funds research in to new treasury qualifications. It is overseen by Professor David Parrish FCT, Professor of Business Management and Economies at Regents College, London, UK.

If you have any questions regarding the ACT University Prize please contact Anthea at amichaelides@treasurers.org.

The ACT Prize is offered to selected universities with courses that contain treasury related disciplines to promote the treasury profession and to support those working towards a treasury career. The ACT Prize recognises these students’ achievements and through this scheme we encourage the relationship between educational institutions and practising treasury professionals. The ACT works with these universities to organise guest lectures hosted by treasury practitioners which provides students with the opportunity to learn from an experienced practitioner.

We are currently working with 12 universities across the UK.

Cass Business School

Award criteria: Best performing student
Awarding module: Corporate Finance
Awarding courses: MSc Finance
MSc International Accounting and Finance

2007/08 winner: Zaurbek Zhunissov

Cranfield University

Award criteria: Best performing student
Awarding course: MSc in Finance and Management

2007/08 winners: Sammy Nwanze and
Kok Beng (Joseph) Koh

The University of Dundee

Award criteria: Best performing third year student
Awarding module: Capital Markets
Awarding course: BAcc Accountancy

2007/08 winner: Paula Sutherland

University of Edinburgh

Award criteria: Highest achieving student
Awarding programme: MA (Hons) Corporate Finance

2007/08 winner: Nikolai Hentsch

Kingston University London

Undergraduate Prize
Award criteria: Best performing student overall
Awarding module: Corporate Finance
Awarding course: BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance

2007/08 winner: Shirley Moussavou

Postgraduate Prize
Award criteria: Best performing student overall
Awarding module: Financial Management
Awarding course: MSc International Finance / MSc Accounting & Finance

2007/08 winner: to be announced

Lancaster University

Award criteria: Best performing student overall
Awarding module: Principles of Finance
Awarding course: BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance / Business Studies / Management School students

2007/08 winner: Christos Pieridis

Leeds Metropolitan University

Under-graduate Prize
Award criteria: Best performing final year student
Awarding module: Financial Management paper
Awarding course: BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance

2007/08 winner: Lisa Walker

Post graduate Prize
Award criteria: Best corporate finance related project or thesis
Awarding module: Corporate finance
Awarding course: MA Finance and Accounting, MSc in Finance and MSc in Accounting

2007/08 winner: to be announced

London Business School (LBS)

Award criteria: To the group with the best presentation for their project which is to value a company.
Awarding module: Corporate Finance
Awarding course: MSc Finance

2007/08 winners:
Go Ishizaka
Ying Liu
Samik Majumdar
Georgi Nedyalkov
Alexander Schlaepfer
Barry Zeitoune

The University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Award criteria: Best performing student
Awarding module: Corporate Finance
Awarding course: BA (Hons) Accounting and Financial Analysis

2007/08 winner: Christopher Calvert

Sheffield Hallam University

Award criteria: Best performing student
Awarding course: BA (Hons) Accounting and Management Control: Strategic Financial Management

2007/08 winner: Michael Netbrown

Award criteria: Highest combined average mark for the Total Risk Management; and Treasury Management modules
Awarding course: MA Finance

2007/08 winner: Michail Kalentis

University of Strathclyde

Under-graduate
Award criteria: Best third year project
Awarding module: Treasury Management
Awarding course: MA (Hons) Accounting and Finance

2007/08 winners:
Lynne Thomson
Linda Sloan
Karen Fraser

Post graduate
Award criteria: Best project
Awarding module: Treasury Management
Awarding course: MSc Finance

2007/08 winners: Nisha Anant Sheth and
Anuradha Shrimali

University of Warwick

Award criteria: Best performing second year student
Awarding module: Finance 1
Awarding course: BSc Accounting and Finance

2007/08 winners: Nicholas Morgan and Christos Symeou

Award criteria: Best performing second/third year student
Awarding module: Finance 2
Awarding course: BSc Accounting and Finance

2007/08 winners: Katarzyna Godlewska and Christos Symeou

The ACT at Warwick University
ACT's James Lockyer presents the winners with their prizes