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MSc Accounting and Finance
Essex Business School
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Course Summary
- Type: MSc
- Location: Essex
- Duration: 12 Months
- Deadline: Ongoing
Course Description
About the courseMSc Accounting and Finance develops your understanding of advanced accounting together with finance topics and methods. Compulsory modules allow you to critically discuss many of the recent developments in both theoretical and empirical approaches to accounting and corporate finance. You are also able to pursue specialist interests with up to two optional modules. Furthermore, in order to prepare you for writing your dissertation, there is a full year module on research methodologies and methods, which includes both quantitative and qualitative approaches to empirical research.
Although this is a self-contained course, if you successfully complete you will be encouraged to continue your academic studies by applying for a PhD.
Please note that this course is also available on a part-time basis.
Course structure
Management Accounting
Portfolio Management
Postgraduate Mathematics Preparation
Dissertation
Issues In Financial Reporting
Learning and assessment
Your postgraduate study at Essex gives you an opportunity to develop your own ideas and interests, and to engage with thinking at the leading edge of your subject, as part of the research community in Essex Business School, and our wider academic and professional community.
As you are studying a non-science subject, then your teaching mainly takes the form of lectures and classes.
Your assessment is a combination of written coursework, end-of-term tests, practical and laboratory work (where appropriate) and end-of-year exams. During the summer, you will work on a dissertation or individual project included in your final grade.
Career destinations
The breadth and depth of our courses and research, informed by social science theories and concepts, ensures you are able to succeed in a range of business roles across the commercial, public and not-for-profit sectors. Our courses are designed to foster the business leaders of the future who, through creativity, innovation and ethical awareness, will be able to meet the many challenges that the international business world continues to present.
Recent graduates of our MSc Accounting and Finance have found employment as an accountant for the Government of Pakistan, a lecturer at Brit College, and the director of finance at Dytex Cotfabr.
Your employability and Essex
A postgraduate qualification is a major achievement and greatly valued by employers. Recent surveys show that higher degree graduates are more likely to obtain jobs at professional or managerial level and less likely to be unemployed. For some jobs a postgraduate qualification may be essential, for others it offers a competitive edge. Our graduates go into a variety of jobs, where the key employability skills and knowledge they have gained through postgraduate study are put to good use.
If you achieve your Masters, you may wish to extend your knowledge with a research degree and many who graduate from Essex choose to stay here for research study. Some of our Masters may be taken as the first part of an Integrated PhD, leading to your PhD after a further three years of full-time study.
Support for postgraduates
Our University has a range of support services designed to help you to achieve your full potential and get the most out of your studies. These form a co-ordinated network of support, and are an important part of your overall student experience at Essex.
Our staff operate an 'open door' policy so are available to discuss any concerns with you throughout the year.
Research study opportunities
Within our Essex Business School, we offer supervision for PhD, MPhil and Masters by dissertation. Both theoretical and applied research can be found within our School, with much of it addressing the important issues currently being faced by commercial businesses, public sector bodies and not-for-profit organisations. We are recognised for being at the forefront of research in: business ethics and corporate social responsibility; organisation studies; leadership and strategy; finance and banking; risk management; and international management.
Entry requirements
Our applicants should have an Upper Second Class Honours degree, or equivalent, in accounting or a related discipline.
If English is not your first language, then we require IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
Tuition fees
Home/UK students £9,000
Overseas students £13,950
Scholarship opportunities
Please see our Student Finance web pages for up-to-date information about the scholarships available to Essex Business School students.
