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| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,581 - ≈ € 9,768 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Leeds / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | January, September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Leeds Metropolitan University
The MSc Accounting & Finance will give you an excellent grounding in which to pursue a career either as a professional accountant or in general management. You will gain an understanding of the role of accounting and finance and its implications in the business environment, and will prepare you for a professional qualification.
The course provides a comprehensive education in accounting and finance for students from a variety of backgrounds, including those who have not previously studied the subject. Your study will focus on accounting, as well as option modules to enrich your knowledge in other areas of business and finance.
Career Opportunities
On graduation, you will have an excellent grounding from which to pursue a career as a professional accountant. In particular the course provides exemptions for those wishing to qualify as a certified accountant.
If you wish to pursue a career outside the accounting profession, you will be able to demonstrate to potential employers skills in accounting and finance that are essential in a general management role.
Contents
Core modules: * Financial Reporting
* Management Accounting and Information Management
* Corporate Finance
* Project Management
* Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting
* Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting
* Business Planning
* Dissertation and Research Methods
Option modules:
An option module will also be chosen from a range including:
* Corporate Strategy
* International Corporate Finance
* International Corporate Reporting
* Islamic Finance
* Personal Investment and Regulation
* Financial Decision Analysis
Students will complete a dissertation which allows you to apply your knowledge to an area of you choice within accounting. The dissertation is a significant independent research project and a Research Methods module will be delivered to support this.
Modules will consist of a mix of lectures, tutorials, group and individual activities, workshops and case study analysis. The students themselves are an important resource for the route and will be encouraged to share their experience and knowledge. The role of staff is seen more as facilitators than lecturers.
Simulations and presentations will help develop skills of group working, problem solving and communicating. Opportunities to use these competencies will be provided through the route, in particular there is an expectation that these will be demonstrated within assessments and the dissertation.
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
You should normally be a graduate with either a minmium of three years' work experience at managerial level or a degree, or equivalent, in either accounting, economics, business studies, mathematics or statistics, and be capable of successfully completing the course.
International students will also need to meet the course's English Language requirement which is IELTS at 6.0 with no skill below 5.0, or equivalent.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | 3 years |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade A (Score: 80) |
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