MSc

Accounting and Finance

Teaching & Learning

 

What you'll learn

This module will introduce you to a range of financial accounting concepts and techniques. You'll analyse published financial statements and begin to take greater responsibility for your learning as you develop into a self-managing learner.
Apply and evaluate a range of complex management accounting information techniques and make informed judgements regarding their value.
Evaluate the fundamental concepts and theories of modern finance, identifying how these can be effectively applied in both national and multinational organisations.
Learn to evaluate and explain the need for, and role of, corporate governance in the business environment. You'll also study the role of IT in forensic accounting and fraud detection and the types and incidences of fraud.
Critically evaluate, analyse and interpret contemporary accounting issues in social, environmental, and political contexts. You'll be able to provide solutions to problems with evidence support. This module will help you to understand the development of behavioural finance theories and practices as an alternative perspective to traditional finance theories and practices.
This module will introduce you to a range of financial accounting concepts and techniques. You'll analyse published financial statements and begin to take greater responsibility for your learning as you develop into a self-managing learner.
Apply and evaluate a range of complex management accounting information techniques and make informed judgements regarding their value.
Evaluate the fundamental concepts and theories of modern finance, identifying how these can be effectively applied in both national and multinational organisations.
Learn to evaluate and explain the need for, and role of, corporate governance in the business environment. You'll also study the role of IT in forensic accounting and fraud detection and the types and incidences of fraud.
Critically evaluate, analyse and interpret contemporary accounting issues in social, environmental, and political contexts. You'll be able to provide solutions to problems with evidence support. This module will help you to understand the development of behavioural finance theories and practices as an alternative perspective to traditional finance theories and practices.

What you'll learn

Develop a strategic organisational perspective. This module will provide the basis for advancement and application of strategic level skills, competencies, and decision-making capability.
You will identify, understand, evaluate and compare types of investment for the private investor, including tools, methods and strategies.
Examine the elements, processes and techniques involved in the development and implementation of professional practices for managing for sustainability, responsibility and ethics. You'll evaluate decision-making in complex and dynamic environments and explore the concepts of professional management in a critical way. This module focuses on the practical application of conceptual frameworks for professional management to gain optimum effect.
The business environment presents a variety of fluctuating risks and opportunities that managers must assess and navigate. In this module we'll consider a framework for evaluating risks, and the methods and techniques to address them. You'll use case studies to identify modern-day uncertainties and how these have impacted businesses. You'll discuss case studies from both an academic and a practical perspective to ensure that you develop an effective toolkit to use in employment. The module will explore: how to identify, assess, prioritise and categorise risks; how to design effective mitigation strategies; how to monitor risks and report on their status; the role of company strategy in relation to risk; how different business units and disciplines relate to risk; the role of the corporate board, and effective governance; and risk management frameworks including ISO31000 and IRM.
Carry out an in-depth research project to produce a dissertation.
Undertake a work-based organisational consultancy project. You'll explore a key issue for a client organisation - a small business, public sector organisation, social enterprise etc. You'll focus on a key issue that the client organisation requires intelligence and information to help them tackle and address. In working with the client organisation, you'll develop and negotiate a suitable project involving the collection and analysis of a range of data and information.
Develop a strategic organisational perspective. This module will provide the basis for advancement and application of strategic level skills, competencies, and decision-making capability.
You will identify, understand, evaluate and compare types of investment for the private investor, including tools, methods and strategies.
Examine the elements, processes and techniques involved in the development and implementation of professional practices for managing for sustainability, responsibility and ethics. You'll evaluate decision-making in complex and dynamic environments and explore the concepts of professional management in a critical way. This module focuses on the practical application of conceptual frameworks for professional management to gain optimum effect.
The business environment presents a variety of fluctuating risks and opportunities that managers must assess and navigate. In this module we'll consider a framework for evaluating risks, and the methods and techniques to address them. You'll use case studies to identify modern-day uncertainties and how these have impacted businesses. You'll discuss case studies from both an academic and a practical perspective to ensure that you develop an effective toolkit to use in employment. The module will explore: how to identify, assess, prioritise and categorise risks; how to design effective mitigation strategies; how to monitor risks and report on their status; the role of company strategy in relation to risk; how different business units and disciplines relate to risk; the role of the corporate board, and effective governance; and risk management frameworks including ISO31000 and IRM.
Carry out an in-depth research project to produce a dissertation.
Undertake a work-based organisational consultancy project. You'll explore a key issue for a client organisation - a small business, public sector organisation, social enterprise etc. You'll focus on a key issue that the client organisation requires intelligence and information to help them tackle and address. In working with the client organisation, you'll develop and negotiate a suitable project involving the collection and analysis of a range of data and information.