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M.Sc. Accounting and Finance

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Faculty: Graduate School

Department: Graduate School

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

COURSES KEY CONTENTS
Contemporary Issues in Accounting
  • Professional behaviour of accountants  and compliance with accounting standards
  • Ethical requirements of financial reporting and the consequences of unethical behaviour
  • Corporate governance regimes
  • Analysis and interpretation of financial statements
  • Environmental and social financial reporting
  • Global management accounting techniques and approaches for a variety of management challenges within a rapidly changing business environment
  • Various forms of organisational structure and transfer pricing techniques
  • Management control systems
  • Quantitative methods and risk assessment in management accounting
Corporate Financial Strategies
  • Corporate value
  • Raising equity capital
  • Long-term debt finance
  • Short-term and medium-term finance
  • Managing capital structure
  • Dividend policy
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Finance distress, restructuring and liquidation
  • International capital markets
  • International corporate finance and governance
  • Current issues on finance research and the practice in the corporate sector
International Financial Management
  • Globalisation and the multinational firm
  • International monetary system
  • Balance of payments
  • The market for foreign exchange
  • International parity relationships
  • The derivative market and hedging strategies
  • Foreign direct investment
  • International capital budgeting
  • International portfolio investment and diversification
  • Multinational treasury management
  • Current topics  in International Finance
Risk, Regulation and Compliance

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Economic Ideology
  • Information Asymmetry and Contract Theory
  • Regulatory Economics
  • Compliance (Management, Costs and Taxation)
  • Central Bank Supervision
  • Socially Sustainable and Inclusive Business Models
  • Liquidity Risk Management (Basel III)
  • Off-Balance Sheet Asset Management
  • Risk Modelling
  • Role of Credit Reference Agencies
  • Regulation as a Driver of Strategy and Product Development in Financial Services
  • Complementary and Alternative Regulatory Structure

Dissertation (Business Innovation Project)

The syllabus will provide a broad, integrated and highly integrated programme of study, designed to facilitate self management of the research project. Subjects include:

  • Research approaches design and methodology
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Business contexts –  large and small organisation perspectives
  • External and internal factors and their effects on the behaviour, management and sustainability of organisations
  • Internal factors, functions and processes, structures and governance, operations and management
  • Self reflection and criticality in the research process
  • Developing skills for reflective, collaborative and adaptive learning

Students will have lectures on

  • Selecting suitable research topics
  • Literature searching – what constitutes a literature search
  • Methods used to collect and analyse primary data
  • Methods used to collect and analyse secondary data
  • Analysing and presenting research findings

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