Accounting and Financial Management (Fast Track route for qualified professionals) - MSc

University of the West of England, Bristol

Postgraduate

In Bristol

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Start date

    Different dates available

As a professionally-qualified practitioner and specialist in accounting and finance, you are likely to be seeking to continue your professional development, possibly with a view to taking on increased managerial responsibilities. The MSc in Accounting and Financial Management (fast-track route) will enhance your ability to contextualise, critically evaluate and communicate financial information, adding significant value to your organisation at a senior management level.
Students on the course come from a variety of backgrounds, and possess a wide range of practical experience, making student interaction and networking an enjoyable and beneficial aspect of the course.
The flexible way to move to the next level
The course is an ideal way to meet your professional body's expectations for CPD, and take your career on to the next stage. The fast track route is well suited to qualified accountants wishing to study for a Masters while continuing in their professional roles with the course delivered as an online distance learning programme. This mode of delivery will enable you to interact and network with other practitioners on the course who are located in different countries.
Academically-rigorous, practically relevant
This specialist Masters is designed to enhance the depth, value and contemporary relevance of your professional accountancy qualification. It will develop your knowledge and critical understanding of financial issues, and enhance your research and analytical skills, combining academic rigour with practical relevance.

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Bristol (Avon)
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Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY

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Subjects

  • Financial Training
  • Financial
  • Financial Management
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Course programme

Content

As a professionally-qualified accountant, you are likely to be exempt from studying the taught 'substantive' modules of the full-time MSc Accounting and Financial Management course. This fast-track route therefore only requires you to complete the following two modules and a dissertation (amounting to 75 credits in total):

  • Financial Context and Contemporary Issues - develops your ability to comprehend contemporary and potential future accounting and financial management issues from a questioning and holistic perspective.
  • Research Methods - provides you with sufficient research training to plan, undertake and effectively manage a substantial, analytical dissertation.

Dissertation

Your dissertation gives you an opportunity to research an area of accounting or financial management that is of particular interest to you and of relevance to your career or your organisation. Previous dissertation topics include:

  • Pre-production financial accounting issues in oil and gas companies: The accounting policy choices
  • Capital Structure and Profitability: An Empirical Research of the Drinks Manufacturing Industry in China
  • Financial Investment Appraisal Incorporating Environmental Externalities

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

Learning and Teaching

This course is delivered online via our Blackboard teaching platform, which comprises online learning materials, group discussion boards, and peer and tutor support. It is designed to enable you to engage in your studies, wherever you are located, without disruption to your existing employment.

For more details, please see our full glossary of learning and teaching terms.

Study time

This fast-track course requires an average of six hours of study a week from October to May. After that you will be working on your dissertation under the guidance of your supervisor.

Dedicated support

You will have access to your tutors in a variety of ways (e.g. by email, Blackboard discussion board, Skype) if you have any issues or questions relating to the course, and they will be on hand to guide and support you.

Assessment

Assessments consist of a combination of written assignments, supervised mini-projects and presentations.

For more details, please see our full glossary of assessment terms.

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