Study Details: MSc Part Time: 2 years, Full Time: 1 year (September start) or 16 months (January start).
Accounting and finance are central to managing organisations effectively. This course integrates accounting, leadership and change, and gives you a practical insight into developing the discipline. It also provides you with a firm knowledge of accounting and finance and the adaptability needed in a rapidly changing environment.
This course is distinctive in its focus on using financial skills in organisations. You develop hard and soft accounting skills as well as the interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively in the challenging business environment.
If you already hold a professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW, you only need to undertake two modules to complete the award – Current Issues in Accounting and Research, and the Accounting Dissertation.
The normal entry requirement is one of the following: a good honours degree (at least a 2:2) a post-experience or professional qualification equivalent qualifications (including international qualifications). However, if you do not have an honours degree but have significant appropriate work experience, you are encouraged to apply.
This programme is open to qualified accountants who may enter with 100 credits of advanced standing, leaving them with only the Current Issues in Accounting & Research and the Accounting Dissertation to complete the award. For general information please see our overview of entry requirements International applicants can find out what qualifications they need by visiting Your Country
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Graduates can expect to be employed in areas within industry, accounting practices or the public sector. The degree provides a good stepping stone to training for a career in accountancy or a role in general management, and also provides those seeking positions in the finance industry with both specialist finance knowledge and the necessary level of understanding of accounting.
Accounting Dissertation
Core Concepts in Accounting and Finance
Current issues in Accounting and Research
Finance Management
Financial Crime
Global Business Environment: Culture, Management and the Economy
Reporting, Governance and Accountability
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