MSc Accounting and Finance

Start date: If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in: September 2012 January 2013 If you're from a country outside the EU you can apply to study this course full time in: September 2012 January 2013

Course length: Full time: 1 year

Campus: Kedleston Road site, Derby Campus

This challenging and intellectually stimulating program, provides you for an exciting combination of both technical and strategic learning. In addition to the development of your application of 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're an accredited ACCA and CIMA study centre, and our staff are all professionally qualified and have industry as well as academic experience. As well as teaching on degree programmes, they are also teaching on the professional body courses - ACCA and CIMA.  So whilst you are studying the MSc, we will also prepare you for the external ACCA professional papers.

This program is well suited for students seeking to enhance their financial skills and accumulate key employability skills coupled with individual personal development.

This course is subject to approval

This course has just been created and we intend to start running it on the next start date. With every new course that we develop, we first have it checked by internal and external quality panels to make sure you get the best possible learning experience. Once these checks have been completed, this course will have been approved and the flag will disappear. There may be small changes to content of the course during this process so check back for updates to this page.

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.
• Be registered with ACCA - this will be the students own responsibility.
• If English is not your first language, you will also need IELTS 6.5

This is a classroom based course.

UK/EU students

• Part time: £695 per module (you usually take 9 of these modules in total)

International students

• Full time: £10,200 (in total)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

There is always a demand for professional accountants. Our past students have gone on to work for local public practices, multinational accounting firms and 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.

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

Raja Waqas Shabbir