Accounting and Finance MA

Master

In Huddersfield

£ 708 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Huddersfield

  • Duration

    1 Year

Huddersfield Business School is excited to announce a new portfolio of courses that are currently being formalised. These are designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to be influential and successful in a rapidly changing global environment.

Our new portfolio covers a wide variety of subject areas offering courses in traditional business and management alongside new and innovative topics. Although this specific course will not be available in 2019, a similar range of courses will follow covering contemporary topics that suit the changing external environment. Our new courses should be available to view online from mid-November, however in the meantime please do get in touch if you would like to enquire about any of our Business School courses.

This course allows students holding appropriate accounting professional qualifications to top-up to full Master’s level.

The course comprises an introduction to research methods (which will include consideration of current issues in accounting and finance) and a dissertation. The Research Methods module must be completed before undertaking the dissertation. The module is taught through a series of seminars adopting a range of learning strategies; including formal tutor-led delivery and student-centred exercises, supplemented by direct reading. You are supervised during the preparation of the research proposal and the dissertation. Dissertations are normally submitted for assessment within one year.

You are assigned a personal tutor who will form an overview of your progress, and who will be available for advice and feedback.

Graduates from this course are ideally placed for further academic study to PhD level, or careers in universities and colleges, industry, commerce, and financial services.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Huddersfield (West Yorkshire)
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Queensgate, HD1 3DH

Start date

On request

About this course

Whether you’re progressing from education or currently working within the industry, our postgraduate courses aim to provide you with the required knowledge, skills and experience; as well as challenge your approach to complex situations. By providing practical project experience, team working opportunities and specialist knowledge of your chosen pathway, we can help develop your ability to work collaboratively and apply theory to real-life situations.

Career options cover the breadth of accounting and finance activity. For example, recent graduates are now working as accountants, financial planners, financial service consultants and accounting instructors, in companies such as IBM, Sainsbury’s, The Coca Cola Company and SABIS®.

An appropriate professional qualification from one of the main accountancy professional bodies (e.g. ACCA, AIA, CAI, CIMA, CIPFA, ICAEW, ICAS, or equivalent). Entrants must have at least passed all the examinations of the professional body.

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Subjects

  • Finance
  • Accounting and Finance
  • Business School
  • Accounting
  • Finance Market
  • Finance Economics
  • Accounting and finance activity
  • Accountants
  • Financial planners
  • Financial service consultants
  • Accounting instructors

Course programme

Course detail

The MA comprises an introduction to research methods (which will include consideration of current issues in accounting and finance) and a dissertation. The Research Methods module must be completed before undertaking the dissertation. Dissertations are normally submitted for assessment within one year.

Here at Huddersfield 100% of permanent teaching staff* have professional recognition as Fellows of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Fellowships are only awarded to academics who can demonstrate their knowledge and ability to teach to a high standard.

We have links with a number of national and international accountancy firms through our ‘Partners in Accountancy’ scheme. You'll have access to a number of guest lectures and networking events throughout your studies, which can offer additional insights to your industry and profession.

*Permanent staff, after probation: some recently appointed colleagues will only obtain recognition in the months after their arrival in Huddersfield, once they have started teaching; research degrees applies to those on contracts of more than half-time.

Accounting and Finance MA

£ 708 VAT inc.