Accounting And Finance MSc

If you studied a business subject at undergraduate level and now want to pursue a career in accounting or finance, this accredited Master’s course is a great first step to specialise in accountancy or get into finance in general.

You'll be introduced to financial and accounting topics at the start of your studies, before exploring how businesses work financially. You'll learn about markets, trades and shares, and use our industry-standard Bloomberg suite to monitor and interpret the same data that professionals use in the real world.

You'll explore human behaviour in relation to finance and learn to use numbers to plan business strategy.

With practical projects and coursework to apply your learning, you'll develop your analytical and problem-solving skills throughout your studies. You'll access career support and networking opportunities with businesses and fellow students to ensure you graduate ready for your career in industry. 

To become an accountant you'll need to study an accredited qualification. If you studied a different business-related subject at undergraduate level, this accounting and finance Master's degree is a chance to become an accountant and graduate with exam exemptions from both the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), which will kickstart your accountancy career and prepare you for the industry.

Course Highlights:

• Use our industry-standard Bloomberg terminals to monitor and analyse financial market data movements and trades
• Study a CIMA and ACCA accredited degree
• Learn to write and interpret financial statements, and to monitor, control and plan for an organisation's ongoing success  
• Understand accounting and finance from both strategic and management perspective
• Explore business planning and strategic management accounting, as well as corporate financial management and corporate governance
• Learn from staff with experience in industry

Modules:

• Behavioural Finance - 15 credits
• You'll study the ways in which investors and markets behave irrationally in the area of behavioural finance and to learn how to apply the ideas of Behavioural Finance to make better financial decisions.
• Business Planning - 15 credits
• You'll develop your understanding of management accounting techniques used in decision making, planning and control.
• Business Valuation - 15 credits
• You'll learn to link specialist exposition of valuation principles with professional business valuation techniques and gain a specialist knowledge and understanding of business valuation.
• Corporate Finance - 15 credits
• You'll develop your knowledge and understanding of the main areas of corporate finance through the presentation of advanced theoretical developments, guided critical analysis of research and the analysis of live data.
• Corporate Governance and Ethics - 15 credits
• You'll learn to understand the meaning of Corporate Governance, the features of effective corporate governance, internal control system, and the importance of ethics and corporate social responsibilities (CSR) in sustaining corporate performance.
• Financial Accounting - 15 credits
• You'll develop your critical awareness of the uses and limitations of accounting information for external reporting and to evaluate the role played by the legal and regulatory framework.
• Managerial Finance and Portfolio Theory - 15 credits
• This module is an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of theoretical and applied issues of managerial finance, as well as portfolio theories.
• Statistics and Data Modelling 1 - 15 credits
• The main aim of this module is to ensure that you have an understanding of primary statistical techniques and can understand and improve the process of decision making.
• Strategic Management Accounting - 15 credits
• You'll develop an awareness and understanding of the framework within which decisions are made with regard to the planning and commitment of physical and financial resources in pursuit of strategic organisational goals.
• MSc Accounting and Financial Management Dissertation - 45 credits
• The aim of the module is to develop, through writing a dissertation, your research methods ability and critical evaluation of relevant sources.