High quality, profession-relevant and research-informed teaching
FUTURE ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSIONALS
We are pleased to launch the MSc Accounting, Finance and Analytics programme, replacing MSc Accounting and Finance.
This revised programme offers a transformative learning experience that keeps pace with the rapidly evolving landscape of the accounting and finance profession.
Developed with our employers, we have built on our expertise in accountancy profession-relevant technologies to embed practical, hands-on experience in Analytics using Excel, PowerBI and Machine Learning. Our course develops this alongside technical accounting and finance knowledge that maximises your exemptions from further professional exams with ACCA, AICPA/CIMA and others. Enhanced employer engagement throughout the course will build your understanding of the modern profession in areas such as ethics and sustainability.
Our profession-ready graduates will be in high demand from local and global employers.
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KEY FEATURES
- Substantial professional exemptions (currently ACCA, AIPCA/CIMA), giving a head-start in your Accountancy or Finance careers
- Developing skills in profession-relevant analytics technologies and critically evaluating technological change
- Local and global employer engagement across the programme - developing communication skills and confidence in professional environments
- Engagement with cutting-edge research in a Russell Group University
- Option of traditional dissertation or combination of taught Summer modules and analytics capstone project using real world data
Supported by employers
These changes have been guided by feedback and consultation with current students, professional bodies, and employers.
Employers contribute across the course including business games/simulations, guest lectures and technology masterclasses. They assist in developing assessment that mirrors the knowledge and skills required in the workplace, including in sustainability reporting and the final analytics capstone project, where students will present their analysis of real-world data to a panel of local and global employers.
We have a dedicated module in employability skills that will help you secure your ideal next step in your career, locally or globally.
The fees, entry requirements, and visa requirements remain unchanged.
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Substantial professional exemptions
Hands-on engagement with profession-relevant technologies
Employability skills and employer contact across the programme
Answers to common questions about the MSc Accounting, Finance and Analytics
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Q: What professional exemptions are available?
Presently we have substantial available exemptions for ACCA and AICPA/CIMA - you can find the full list here. For both, we have among the highest number of exemptions available to MSc programmes in the UK and Ireland, including the unusual ACCA audit exemption, if you complete the Semester 3 Audit Ethics and Capstone Project module. Informed by our conversations with employers, we are applying for exemptions from a third prestigious accrediting body, which we hope to secure for the 25/26 academic year.
- Q: What technologies will be taught, and how? Do I need prior knowledge of any of these?
We will teach Excel, PowerBI and machine learning using Python coding language, across our Analytics and Research Methods modules. This may change over time as we will keep the course relevant to the profession. We will assume no prior knowledge of these technologies. We teach such technologies using a combination of computer lab-based classes, independent work (assessed and non-assessed, with feedback), third-party online platforms, clinics, and employer masterclasses (such as for Excel and PowerBI).
- Q: What options are available in the final semester of the programme?
In the final semester (i.e. 3rd semester May- September), students can choose between the Audit, Ethics, and Capstone Project option or the traditional Dissertation option. A traditional dissertation involves detailed literature review and research, with the support of a supervisor. Alternatively, students complete taught modules in Audit and Ethics (securing the ACCA audit exemption, available to very few MSc programmes) and then complete a shorter project which builds on the analytics content through the programme, to analyse real world data, and present findings with visualizations to a professional audience, providing a dynamic and practical learning experience. This flexibility allows students to tailor their learning to their career goals and interests.
- Q: How many hours of class attendance can be expected in a week?
There are four modules in each of the first two semesters and each module normally requires a weekly attendance of 3 hours. Hence, weekly attendance is likely to be 12 hours (4 modules * 3 hours) in the first two semesters. Additional activities including employer events, business games and networking events also occur across the term. In the third semester, the expected attendance depends on your choice of module. As a full time student, your commitment is around 12 hours per week per module, including contact time and your independent study.
- Q: Who will be teaching me – do any of the staff have industry experience?
Students will be taught by leading academics who are well connected with industry and the accountancy profession and able to combine cutting edge theory with real-world practice. Many of our staff have backgrounds in industry and/or practice and so bring the lessons learned from their most recent research and/or experience as an accountancy professional into the classroom, giving students access to critical business thinking and contemporary real-world examples and scenarios. More details about our academics can be found by clicking here.
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