MSc Accounting and Finance

You will start by learning investment decision-making, organisational control systems and the role of financial information in strategic planning. Apply theory to real-world data and scenarios, to interpret and evaluate complex financial evidence while studying core units in:

• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Reporting and Capital Markets
• Strategic Management Accounting.

You will then study how to apply machine learning, data analytics and quantitative methods to finance and accounting problems, evaluating their limitations, assumptions and ethical implications through the AI and Data Analytics in Accounting and Finance unit.

You will also customise your learning by taking one specialist option in accounting and one in finance:

• Financial Analysis and Valuation (specialist accounting pathway)
• International Financial Reporting, Auditing and Assurance (specialist accounting pathway)
• Advanced Corporate Finance (specialist finance pathway)
• Financial Technology (specialist finance pathway).

Final project

Your studies in teaching blocks 1 and 2 build the foundations for your 60-credit independent research project, completed over the summer. In this Master's Impact Project, you will plan and execute an academic, practice-based or reflective-practice project at an appropriate professional standard.

Options include:

• Independent research project
• Business-based research project
• Business practice project
• Thematic research portfolio.

Visit our programme catalogue for full details of the structure and unit content for the MSc in Accounting and Finance.

You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree in Accounting or Finance, or a Commerce degree with an Accounting, Finance, or Accounting and Finance specialism (whether as a single, joint, or combined honours degree)

OR

if your degree is not listed above, you will require three modules at 2:1 level from the lists below, with at least one module from each stream.

Financial Accounting and Corporate Finance stream:

• Any variation of Accounting (for example, Corporate Accounting or Financial Accounting)
• Auditing
• Banking
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Reporting
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Statement Analysis
• Financial Derivatives
• Financial Management
• Financial Management and Control
• Financial Reporting
• Financial Risk Management
• Financial Technology
• Fundamentals of Accounting
• Fundamentals of Finance
• Intermediate Accounting
• Intermediate Finance
• International Finance
• Principles of Accounting
• Principles of Asset Pricing
• Principles of Finance
• Quantitative Methods for Finance.

Management Accounting, Accountability and Society stream:

• Management Accounting
• Accounting in Society
• Accounting Information Systems
• Cost Accounting
• Cost Analysis
• Cost Management.

We may also consider pass grades in professional qualifications which demonstrate understanding of technical accounting (such as ACCA, CIMA or CFA) to meet some of these module requirements.

If you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date.

We will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer. This offer would be at the standard level, so you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree. Specific module requirements would still apply.

We will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements.

If your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, or if your subject is not listed above, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional relevant work experience or qualifications. If you have at least one of the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing:

• evidence of five years' work experience in accounting and finance related roles such as financial reporting, management accounting, auditing
• a relevant postgraduate qualification. Specific module requirements would still apply, which can be met in either undergraduate or postgraduate qualifications.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.