MSc Accounting and Finance

Why choose this course?

As well as resulting in a masters-level qualification, the course prepares you for ACCA professional level examinations.
We have over 30 years' experience of providing tuition for professional accountancy students at all levels.
ACCA has granted us gold approval, proving that we offer high-quality professional tuition.
The MSc offers advanced preparation for career development by extending knowledge in the core areas of finance and accounting, and by providing the theoretical framework and analytical skills necessary to cope with an increasingly complex and international business environment.
You will enjoy small class sizes and the chance to study beside people from other countries, enabling you to develop your knowledge of the cultural implications of business practice.

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Start date: If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in: September 2013 If you're from a country outside the EU you can apply to study this course full time in: September 2013

Course length: Full time: 1 year

Campus: Kedleston Road site, Derby Campus

About this course

This challenging and intellectually-stimulating programme will provide you with an exciting combination of both technical and strategic learning. In addition to developing your financial techniques and knowledge to an impressive professional level, you'll also nurture key skills such as critical thinking, communication, team /group work, leading, reflecting, managing and organisation.

We are an accredited ACCA and CIMA study centre, and our staff are all professionally qualified and have industry as well as academic experience. In addition to teaching on degree programmes, they also teach on the professional body courses - ACCA and CIMA, helping us to prepare you for the external ACCA professional papers at the same time as you are studying for your MSc.

This programme is well suited to students seeking to enhance their financial skills and looking to accumulate key employability skills, with the additional benefit of individual personal development.

Entry requirements

For the MSc you will usually need:

A good honours degree with an accounting background
If English is not your first language, you will also need IELTS 6.5

For obtaining the dual award MSc and ACCA you will need:

A good honours degree in Accounting which provides exemptions from the first 9 ACCA papers.
To be registered with ACCA - this will be the student's own responsibility.
If English is not your first language, you will also need IELTS 6.5

How to apply

Fees and finance

This is a classroom based course.

UK/EU students

£695 per module (you usually take 9 of these modules in total)

International students

Full time: £10,455 (in total)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2013 and August 2014. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

Careers and employability

There is always a demand for professional accountants. Our past students have gone on to work for local public practices and multinational accounting firms and have taken up accounting careers in merchant banks and other large businesses. As an accountant you will have the opportunity to work in many diverse fields, anywhere in the world.

What our students say

"The academics offered great support in and out of the classroom and were always available and willing to guide me."

Raja Waqas Shabbir

Contact details

If you are a UK or EU student, contact us

T: +44 (0)1332 591167
F: +44 (0)1332 597724
E: askadmissions@derby.ac.uk

Submit an UK or EU enquiry here

If you are an international student, contact us

T: +44 (0)1332 597235
E: bclinternational@derby.ac.uk

Submit an international enquiry here

Where will I study?

Kedleston Road site, Derby Campus