MSc Accounting and Finance

Academic-year programme but may be a full year depending on courses selected. Students must take courses to the value of four units as shown.

Paper	Course number and title
1	FM430	Corporate Finance and Asset Markets or
	FM429	Asset Markets A (H) *and* FM431M Corporate Finance A (H) or FM431L Corporate Finance A (H)
	or another approved paper*
2	AC420	Financial Reporting in Capital Markets, or
	AC410	Management Accounting, Strategy and Organisational Control
	*or both*
	AC411	Accounting, Strategy and Control (H) *and* AC414 Financial Reporting, Capital Markets and Business Combinations (H)
	Students should select remaining papers to the value of two full units:
3 & 4	AC410	Management Accounting, Strategy and Organisational Control (if not taken under paper 2- cannot be taken with AC411)
	AC411	Accounting, Strategy and Control (H) (if not taken under paper 2 - cannot be taken with AC410)
	AC412	Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (H)
	AC414	Financial Reporting, Capital Markets and Business Combinations (H) (if not taken under paper 2 - cannot be taken with AC420)
	AC420	Financial Reporting in Capital Markets (if not taken under paper 2 - cannot be taken with AC414)
	AC444	Valuation and Security Analysis (H)
	AC470	Accounting in the Global Economy (H) (n/a 13/14)
	FM402	Financial Risk Analysis (H)
	FM404	Forecasting Financial Time Series (H)**
	FM413	Fixed Income Markets (H)
	FM421	Applied Corporate Finance (H)
	FM440	Corporate Finance Theory (H) (n/a 13/14)
	FM441	Derivatives (H)
	FM442	Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (H)**
	FM445	Portfolio Management (H)
	FM447	Global Financial System (H)
	FM472	International Finance (H)
	GY462	Real Estate Finance (H)
	ID420	Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (H)
	LL4K2	Law of International Economic and Financial Sanctions (H)
	LL4BK	Corporate Crime (H)
	LL4BL	Financial Crime (H)
	Any other course *
	Students can also take a dissertation in either accounting or finance (students cannot take two dissertations):
	AC499	Dissertation
	FM499	Dissertation
Notes
	Students may elect to have their degree specialisation indicated on their degree certificate. Students who take both AC470 (n/a 13/14) and FM472 as Paper 3 may choose to have MSc Accounting and Finance: International Accounting and Finance on their certificate. Students who take AC410 or AC420 as Paper 3 may choose to have MSc Accounting and Finance: Accounting and Financial Management on their certificate. Students taking finance courses to the equivalent of two full units as Papers 3 and 4 may choose to have MSc Accounting and Finance: Finance on their certificate. * means by special permission only. ** Students taking this course can apply for a place on FM457 MATLAB for MSc Students, a non-assessed computer course. # MA400 is a pre requisite for this course. This programme is externally accredited by the ACCA. Further information is available on the Department of Accounting website.