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Forensic Accounting – (M.Sc.)
Sheffield Hallam University
Faculty of Development and Society
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,622 - ≈ € 10,789 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Sheffield / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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Forensic study is increasingly popular in universities and a forensic approach is often used in the workplace. This course gives you accounting skills and knowledge related to forensic investigation.
You gain an understanding of the legal issues in forensic study. A third of your study involves improving your knowledge of the legal system. Accounting is always studied in a legal context.
This course gives you a specialist insight into forensic analysis of financial accounts. Your module choices allow you to tailor your study to areas of interest. Total risk management addresses the design and management of financial information to help reduce the possibility of financial fraud.
The financial regulations and supervision module gives you an insight into the legal framework and working practices around accounting.
These option modules are supported by core modules such as electronic crime. You look at how new media can be exploited in financial fraud and how such actions can be traced.
You also do a dissertation, an extended piece of research which you design and carry out under the direction of an academic tutor.
There are four other forensic courses available. They are all designed to meet a wide range of individual needs and expectations. Each course complements your degree study or previous work experience.
Contents
Core modules
Legal methodology
This module provides the necessary grounding to study law effectively. It teaches the core skills required with emphasis placed on research and legal reasoning. You examine the court system and legal professions and we introduce the Human Rights Act of 1998.
Criminal litigation
Criminal litigation is essentially the steps required to take a criminal case to trial. This module examines the initial stages of an investigation.
You examine
* police powers
* the processing of crime scenes
* the importance of continuity of evidence and establishing a chain of custody
* the general principles of criminal law required to ensure that charges are understood and correctly drafted
* the law on confessions and inferences from silence
* the law concerning taking samples from suspects
* the initial stages of a criminal prosecution with emphasis on how they are significant to expert witnesses
Law of evidence
This follows on from the criminal litigation module and progresses the investigative process from the initial court hearings through to the completion of the trial.
It addresses subjects including
* rules and principles on expert testimony
* the burden of proof
* the significance of disclosure and pre trial hearings for expert witnesses
* the rules governing advocacy and trials
* salient rules of evidence, such as hearsay
You also examine recent miscarriages of justice involving expert witnesses to identify how error arose and how to eliminate repetition.
Forensic accounting
This module introduces the nature and extent of financial crime and financial dispute resolution. You learn to identify situational, systems and security weaknesses in organisations and learn to design and recommend measures to minimise the associated risks.
Electronic crime
You examine the major business related software applications used in the fight against electronic crime. You also learn how to identify the major types of commonly encountered electronic crime and how to use computer security to control these situations.
Methods of enquiry: research and consultancy in finance
You evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of research methods and identify the appropriate methods related to specific research objectives.
Research project
This module allows you to demonstrateresearcher skills at masters level. Youproduce a persuasively argued piece ofwriting that demonstrates knowledge andskills, researcher competence and theability to work independently.
Options
One from
* corporate governance
* financial analysis
* financial regulation and supervision
* total risk managemen
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
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Register Now!Requirements
* normally students must have an undergraduate degree in a relevant field. If you don´t have a degree you may be considered if you have at least five years´ professional experience.
* you need two appropriate references
* you need a high level of English language competence to successfully complete the course. If the language your first degree was taught in was not English, then typically IELTS 6.5 , TOEFL 620.
* places are limited but there is no discrimination against any group or individual on the grounds of ethnic origin, nationality, gender, disability, marital status, sexuality, political or religious belief
* international applicants, and applicants with disabilities are particularly welcomed onto the programme. For all applicants a good level of English is essential and it is important that international applicants have the level of English required to cope with the demands of the course. If you are concerned, you can attend the TESOL centre´s pre-session induction course. This may be recommended or required.
* we normally interview students before admissions are finalised. International students may be interviewed by telephone or e-mail.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 620 |
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