MSc Law and Accounting
Full-year programme. Students must take four courses one of which will be examined in part by dissertation. The Core course will be examined by Long Essay due by 21 August and a two-hour exam in May/June. Examinations in other courses may be in May/June or August/September depending on the regulations under which those courses fall.
Paper |
Course number and title | |
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1 |
Corporate Accountability: Topics in Legal and Accounting Regulation * | |
2 |
Financial Reporting in Capital Markets ‡ or | |
Management Accounting and Financial Accounting: Decisions, Control, Reporting and Disclosure † | ||
3 | ||
Media and Communications Regulation (H) (n/a 13/14) | ||
Legal Risk in Financial Markets (H) | ||
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Law and Practice of International Finance (H) | |
Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in Europe (H)+ | ||
Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US (H) | ||
Law of Corporate Finance (H) | ||
Financial Law (H) | ||
Employment Law (H) | ||
Human Rights in the Workplace (H) (n/a 13/14) | ||
Principles of Copyright Law (H) | ||
Cyberlaw (H) | ||
E-Commerce Law (H) (n/a 13/14) | ||
Piracy, Content and Ownership in the Information Society (H) (n/a 13/14) | ||
Business Taxation (H) | ||
Principles of Taxation (H) | ||
Consumption Taxes (H) | ||
Value Added Tax in the European Context (H) (n/a 13/14) | ||
Global Copyright Policy: Contemporary Issues (H) | ||
Comparative Company Law (H) | ||
Insolvency Law: Principles, Rescue and Reconstruction Processes (H) | ||
Insolvency Law: Company Liquidation and Stakeholder Interests (H) | ||
Regulation: Strategies and Enforcement (H) | ||
Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects (H) | ||
International Tax Systems (H) | ||
International Tax Systems: Advanced Problems (H) | ||
Principles of Financial Regulation (H) | ||
Regulating for Financial Stability (H) | ||
Corporate Crime (H) | ||
Financial Crime (H) | ||
European Company Law (H) | ||
UK Corporate Law (H) | ||
Comparative Corporate Taxation (H) | ||
Taxation of Corporate Transactions (H) (n/a 13/14) | ||
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Any other LLM course from those offered at LSE subject to approval | |
4 |
Any of the courses listed in 3 above for which the student is eligible and has not already taken, or one of the following (or two half units) with approval: | |
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Management Accounting, Strategy and Organizational Control | |
Accounting, Strategy and Control (H) | ||
Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (H) | ||
Valuation and Securities Analysis (H) | ||
Accounting in the Global Economy (H) (n/a 13/14) | ||
Corporate Finance and Asset Markets | ||
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An LSE LLM or MSc course not listed here § | |
Notes | ||
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* To be examined by 10,000-word Long Essay and a two-hour examination. | ||
