Search
Did you study here?
Write a short review & help students like you! Over 1,500 students already shared their experience.
Accounting and Finance with Business English – (M.Sc.)
Kingston University
Faculty of Business and Law
| Application Deadline: | 7 August | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 8,490 - ≈ € 12,780 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | London / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
| Educational Form: |
| ||
| Education Variants: |
| ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of Kingston University
The MSc in Accounting and Finance with Business English has been developed from our highly successful Accounting and Finance MSc, which has established an international reputation for the quality of its graduates. This course allows you to develop your English language proficiency at the same time as studying the key principles of accounting and finance. It also develops your awareness and understanding of aspects of UK and international social and business cultures and practices.
What will you study?
In addition to improving your English language skills, you cover the theories, models and practice of accounting and finance at an advanced level, together with an understanding of how they integrate in the wider business environment. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to critically analyse and use relevant information to offer interpretations and solutions to problems.
You also have the opportunity to focus in depth on a specific area of the business finance function, thus increasing your career choices.
Current research in this subject Research is an essential part of the day-to-day life of Kingston Business School and is embedded in its intellectual activities and development. In the most recent RAE (Research Assessment Exercise) undertaken in 2008, the research output of Kingston Business School was the highest rated of any new university. Ninety per cent of our research submitted was assessed as 'recognised internationally' or higher. Of this, 10% was classified as 'world leading' and 35% as 'internationally excellent'.
We have a vibrant research community engaging staff, research students and associates from government, industry and commerce, in a wide variety of endeavours from definitive pioneering academic research to highly focused consultancy for clients.
The excellent quality of our research is reflected in the international reputation of our professors and lecturers through publications and prize-winning conference papers, as well as substantial external funding from both the private and public sector, including HSBC Bank, Nokia, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
Research activity is undertaken at three levels:
* Research centres – such as the Small Business Research Centre (SBRC) and Centre Research in Employability, Skills & Society (CRESS).
* Research groups – such as the Employee Engagement Consortium and the Emerging Technologies Group.
* Individual department level, with numerous research and interest groups between academics.
Research Repository You can view the full range of research papers published by Kingston Business School academics via the Kingston University Research Repository.
Student research You may be able to publish any research you undertake on the Kingston University Research and Innovation Reports (KURIR) website. This site gives anyone associated with Kingston University the opportunity to publish articles, which will be permanently available to the academic community.
Contents
In addition to improving your English language skills, you cover the theories, models and practice of accounting and finance at an advanced level, together with an understanding of how they integrate in the wider business environment. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to critically analyse and use relevant information to offer interpretations and solutions to problems.
You also have the opportunity to focus in depth on a specific area of the business finance function, thus increasing your career choices.
Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list.
Core modules
* Financial Accounting
This module introduces you to financial accounting in a business context. It provides you with a mix of practical 'know how' and deeper theoretical underpinning. The module covers:
* the principles for constructing the key financial statements;
* how to produce financial statements from transaction records using double entry principles;
* how to conduct an appraisal of the financial statements of entities; and
* company financial statements and their regulation.
The module uses an active-learning approach in the lectures with informal feedback through discussion and practice questions.
* Management Accounting
This module will enable you to understand and prepare management information to support the decision making in an organisation. It covers:
* how to calculate the costs associated with the production of products and provision of services, and determine their price;
* budgeting approaches and how budgets are produced; and
* effective performance management systems, including performance measures, to assist management decision making.
* Finance and Investment
This module enables you appreciate the theoretical developments and concepts in the area of corporate finance and investments. It includes:
* the modern corporate finance theories and their applications;
* the decision making process in respect to major corporate decisions and their implications for corporate stakeholders and investors;
* risk and returns, portfolio theory and portfolio performance measurement and evaluation;
* the valuation methods of securities traded in the financial markets;
* security trading in the financial markets; and
* issues related to agency theory, agency problems and corporate governance.
* Financial Management
This module covers how organisations arrange their external financing and manage their internal resources. It looks at:
* sources of capital and theories of how capital structures behave in response to changes in the choices of capital sources;
* methods and costs of protecting the firm's capital and operational cash flows against currency, interest and maturity risk;
* treasury and working capital management; and
* the firm's choice in of growth through acquisition or or reduction through spin-off, demerger or reconstruction will be studied.
* Financial Reporting
Financial reporting is the communication of quantitative and narrative company information to interested parties within society.
This module follows the Financial Accounting module, developing your technical knowledge and your application skills of international financial reporting standards (IASs and IFRSs). It will also equip you with a critical appreciation of the dynamic environment within which financial reporting is practised.
* Academic English for Business I
This module aims to develop your grammatical and lexical competence to a level at which you can understand and respond effectively to extended native speaker written and spoken discourse within an academic business context.
You will also develop an awareness and understanding of British business and social culture and practices and gain confidence in your existing and developing language skills.
* Academic English for Business II
Building on Academic English for Business I, this module further develops your critical reading and writing skills to enable you to produce analytical and discursive work. You will:
* develop your communication and presentation skills to a level at which you can select vocabulary and grammatical structures appropriate to a particular communication context; and
* further develop your knowledge of the UK and international business cultures.
* Research Methods and Dissertation
Initially this module will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to successfully complete a research project.
You will then investigate a specific business problem via a substantial piece of independent work, which demonstrates your proficiency in:
* the design of a research project;
* the application of appropriate methods;
* the collection and analysis of data; and
* the presentation of results.
Option modules (choose one)
* Auditing and Control
This module introduces you to the concept of auditing. It will cover both theoretical frameworks as well as practical processes and techniques. It also looks at current regulation, legislation, corporate governance and ethics.
* Comparative International Accounting
* International Money and Finance
* Taxation
This module looks at the general objectives of tax assessment and the types of tax that apply in the UK. At the end of the module you will be able to:
* assess the tax liability of both individuals and businesses; and
* appreciate the implications of tax policies on business decision making.
The module also covers ethical considerations and the administration of taxation.
* Accounting, Environmental Issues and Sustainability
* Corporate Governance & Company Secretarial Practice
* Principles of Business Law
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testGRE® revised General Test
GRE Scores are accepted at business schools worldwide. Learn more and register.
Register Now!Requirements
* We welcome applications from those who possess a good honours degree preferably in business management, accounting and finance or economics.
* International applicants will need 6.5 IELTS or equivalent.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
Accreditation
Many of the courses that we run are accredited and recognised by relevant professional bodies within their respective fields. As part of our commitment to providing quality, relevant courses we seek accreditation and recognition wherever possible. In fact the Higher Education Funding Council of England awarded us a quality rating for 'Excellence in teaching'.
Kingston Business School is also one of an elite number of UK business schools with Association of MBA accreditation of our MBA courses. Plus we have received EPAS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development for several of our postgraduate and undergraduate business programmes; only the second UK business school to receive this accreditation.
To view a full list of our accreditations, please visit our website.
Ask a Question
You can contact Business and Law - Admissions Team to ask a question about Accounting and Finance with Business English at Kingston University.
Relevant Links
Contact
Contact Kingston University
Using the form on this page, you can directly ask questions to the contactpersons at the university.
Fill out your contact information and message. The information you fill out in this form will be sent directly to the university. They will reply to you on the e-mail address you provide here.
Explain your academic background in the message; the more sophisticated your e-mail, the better the answer.
MastersPortal.eu cannot take any responsibility for the answering of contacts or for the content of their replies.
MastersPortal.eu - Finds the Masters for you!