The MSc Accounting & Financial Management will equip you to tackle the most pressing current issues in accounting, audit and financial management. It explores innovative topics from the role of technology and data, ethical decision-making, to the integration of sustainability principles. It also seeks to develop you as a critical thinker, provide you with practical and theoretical knowledge, and develop both your numerical and qualitative skills in the process.

Knowledge and understanding

By the end of the programme, students will be able to:

  • Develop a critical understanding of relevant theories and practical application in a broad range of topics in accounting and financial management
  • Evaluate and critically analyse the effectiveness of financial control within an organisation
  • Develop a critical understanding of current issues in accounting and financial management, with particular consideration for sustainability and ethics
  • Develop a critical understanding of qualitative and quantitative analytical skills and apply such skills in both academic and practical contexts

Graduate attributes

By the end of the programme, students will be able to:

  • Identify, define and analyse problems and identify or create processes to solve them, with due regard to ethical sustainability and governance
  • Critically review the relevant literature
  • Demonstrate advanced qualitative and quantitative skills
  • Undertake independent learning and display independent thought, acknowledging the importance and limitations of their own knowledge
  • Respond effectively to unfamiliar problems in unfamiliar contexts
  • Identify and evaluate social, cultural, global, ethical and environmental responsibilities and issues
  • Present clearly and cohesively both orally and in writing
  • Synthesise written, verbal, and diagrammatic information
  • Engage and work effectively with diverse groups
  • Effectively manage time and workload demands within a dynamic and challenging work environment
  • Confidently transfer knowledge from one domain to another.