MSc in Accounting and Finance
Programme Code: TMAF
Department: Accounting
For students starting this programme of study in 2020/21
Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Academic-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of four units as shown.
Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
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Prerequisite Course |
Students who wish to take AC416 in Papers 2, 3 or 4 are required to take the following course which runs over a 9-day period before the start of MT: | |
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AC480 Quantitative Methods in Accounting and Finance (0.0) | |
Paper 1 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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FM430 Corporate Finance and Asset Markets (1.0) # (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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FM431L Corporate Finance A (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24) or | |
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FM431M Corporate Finance A (0.5) # (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
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Or another approved paper by special permission only. | |
Paper 2 |
Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Control (0.5) and AC415 Management Accounting for Decision Making (0.5) or | |
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AC415 Management Accounting for Decision Making (0.5) and AC416 Topics in Financial Reporting (0.5) # 1 or | |
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AC416 Topics in Financial Reporting (0.5) # and AC417 Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations (0.5) 2 or | |
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AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Control (0.5) and AC416 Topics in Financial Reporting (0.5) # | |
Papers 3 & 4 |
Courses to the value of 2.0 unit(s) from the following: | |
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AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Control (0.5) | |
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AC412 Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (0.5) | |
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AC415 Management Accounting for Decision Making (0.5) | |
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AC417 Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations (0.5) | |
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FM421 Finance for Mergers, Buyouts and Corporate Restructurings (0.5) # | |
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FM442 Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (0.5) # | |
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FM445 Portfolio Management (0.5) | |
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GY462 Real Estate Finance (0.5) | |
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LL4BK Corporate Crime (0.5) | |
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LL4BL Financial Crime (0.5) | |
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MG4D5 Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (0.5) | |
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Any other course by special permission only. | |
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Students can also take a dissertation in either accounting or finance (students cannot take two dissertations): | |
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AC499 Dissertation (1.0) 4 (withdrawn 2024/25) | |
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FM499 Dissertation (1.0) 5 (withdrawn 2020/21) | |
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Students taking FM404 or FM442 can apply for a place on the following non-assessed computer course: | |
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FM457 Applied Computational Finance (0.0) (withdrawn 2023/24) | |
Prerequisite Requirements and Mutually Exclusive Options
# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.
1 : Before taking AC416 you must take AC480
2 : Before taking AC416 you must take AC480
3 : Before taking AC416 you must take AC480
4 : AC499 can not be taken with FM499
5 : FM499 can not be taken with AC499
Notes
Students may elect to have their degree specialisation indicated on their degree certificate. Students who take both AC470 and FM472 as Paper 3 may choose to have MSc Accounting and Finance: International Accounting and Finance on their certificate. Students who take two half units of AC411 or AC415 or AC416 or AC417 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.
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