Accounting and Finance

This course is subject to revalidation.

Our MAccFin (Hons) Accounting and Finance course is suited to students looking to gain a high level of specialist accounting and finance knowledge. This four-year integrated Master's provides an extra level of training above the standard three-year BA.

You will learn:

Financial and management accounting

Auditing

Taxation

Corporate finance, and

Financial management.

The MAccFin (Hons) Accounting and Finance course is accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), CPA Australia and Association of International Accounts (AIA).

Year 1: Mental Wealth 1: Academic and Digital Proficiency (Core Modules), People and Organisations (Core Modules), Fundamentals of Business Accounting (Core Modules), Business Law (Core Modules), Fundamentals of Economics (Core Modules), Business Statistics and Data Analysis (Core Modules)

Year 2: Graduate Employability Competencies (Mental Wealth 2) (Core Modules), Intermediate Financial Reporting (Core Modules), Performance Management Accounting (Core Modules), Financial Management (Core Modules), Taxation (Core Modules), Accounting and Tax Clinic (Core Modules)

Year 3: Global Enterprise and Consultancy Practice (Mental Wealth 3) (Core Modules), Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethics (Core Modules), Auditing (Core Modules), Strategic Management Accounting (Core Modules), Advanced Financial Reporting (Core Modules), Corporate Finance (Core Modules)

Year 4: Strategic Business Reporting (Core Modules), Strategic Business Leader (Core Modules), Advanced Taxation (Core Modules), Advanced Auditing and Assurance (Core Modules)

For more information about individual modules, please visit our course pages via the link below.

Year 1 - You will be assessed in six modules comprising 20 credits each. You will be required to sit sixty-minute exams in two of the year 1 modules. The exam components will make up 50% of the total marks for each of the two modules. The remaining four modules will be assessed by group coursework and individual portfolios.
Year 2 - You will be assessed in six modules comprising 20 credits each. You will be required to sit for a two-hour exam in four of the year 2 modules. The exam components will make up an average of 70% of each of the four modules. The remaining modules and other components of the four modules will be assessed by group coursework, individual portfolios and reflective reports.
Year 3 - You will be assessed in six modules comprising 20 credits each. You will be required to sit two exams in each of the four modules. The first exam in each of the four modules will be a one-hour exam, and the second exam will be a two-hour exam. The assessment for the remaining two modules will be coursework.
Year 4 - You will be assessed in six modules comprising 30 credits each. You will be required to sit a two-hour exam in four modules. The exam components of the four modules will make up an average of 50% of each of the four modules. The other components of the four modules will be a case study or a group report. Students will be assessed by individual poster presentations, reflective reports and applied business reports or dissertations in the remaining two modules.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• International Accountants, Association of