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    MSc Part Time: 2 years, Full Time: 1 year (September start) or 16 months (January start).

Masters Degree Description

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 - Contemporary Issues and Research Methods, and the Dissertation.

Top reasons to study accounting and finance with us:

  • Industry input: we work with brands including Coca-Cola, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, KPMG, Ernst & Young, and Johnson & Johnson to give you experience of working with global organisations.
  • Entrepreneurial opportunities: our students have created 500 new business start-ups through Launchpad and Fuel – a start-up community who provide support and advice for students looking to start a new business venture.
  • United Nations’ PRME initiative – we’re a proud signatory of the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative, which aims to globally raise the profile of sustainability and responsible leadership to equip current and future leaders with the skills to deliver positive change for business and society
  • Financial awards: study this course and you may be eligible for £3,500 Sir Keith Skeoch postgraduate scholarship.

Entry Requirements

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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Student Destinations

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.

Module Details

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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