Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 Year Full-time
During this master's degree, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of theoretical and practical accounting and be able to combine this knowledge with analytical techniques, to advise and act as consultants in key decision-making. The MSc will provide you with the skills to identify the risks in a business management context and recommend ways to mitigate such risks.
The programme offers specialised modules in areas such as accounting, auditing, and tax. You’ll learn about, and evaluate, a comprehensive range of research techniques, and understand how they are put into practice to create and interpret knowledge. You’ll also carry out your own research as part of your independent research project.
You’ll focus on real-world problems and explore ways accounting can help to address them. You’ll explore a range of organisational contexts and practices which will set you up for a professional accountancy career. Accredited and approved by several accountancy bodies and taught by professionally qualified staff you’ll gain professional qualifications in any accounting-related field with a focus on grant exemptions in the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Qualification or Foundations in Accountancy awards.
A good Honours degree (first or second class), or its non-UK equivalent, in a relevant subject from a recognised British or overseas university.
Work or project experience in the area of finance will be of further advantage.
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Financial Management
Financial Accounting and Reporting
Auditing Assurance and Professional Ethics
Taxation
International Managerial Accounting
Research Methods
Ethics and Governance
Financial Analysis
Financial Information Systems
Comparative financial reporting
Dissertation project
During the final semester and upon successful completion of your prior courses you will write a dissertation which will help you develop a range of research skills and demonstrate specialist accounting knowledge.
Mandatory September
Financial Management
Financial Accounting and Reporting
Taxation
Optional September
Corporate Governance and Sustainability
Financial Analysis
Mandatory January
Research Philosophy and Practice
Auditing, Assurance and Professional Ethics
International Managerial Accounting
Optional January
Comparative Financial Reporting
Financial Information Systems
Mandatory May
Accounting, Banking or Finance Dissertation
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