MA/MS in Accounting and Financial Management

This master's programme shapes accounting, auditing and financial-management professionals who take a modern, research-grounded approach, able to judge a firm's accounting figures against international standards, read and forecast its activity, shape its internal controls, and grasp how auditing works. Coursework runs through three stages each of audit and assurance, financial reporting and financial management, plus investment management and analysis, taxation, and an unusual module in neurofinance, alongside electives such as valuing a company, corporate governance, risk management, alternative investments and cross-cultural management, building toward a thesis. Learning outcomes include gathering and weighing up data to spot accounting and financial problems, grasping financial processes and policy inside government bodies, financial institutions and non-financial organisations well enough to set strategic financial decisions, using quantitative and qualitative methods on accounting and finance questions, and carrying out full financial analysis of a business, organisation or project with current analytical methods. Students also learn to design management-control systems built on recent research and to give financial advice clearly and ethically, alone or in a team.