Accounting and Finance MSc
University of Derby
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Offering a challenging and intellectually stimulating learning experience, our MSc Accounting and Finance prepares you for ACCA professional level examinations alongside a highly respected master’s qualification. Develop your financial techniques and knowledge to an impressive level through an exciting combination of technical and strategic learning, improve your employability with key skills in critical thinking, communication, teamwork, leadership, and management, and learn in an accredited ...Read more

Offering a challenging and intellectually stimulating learning experience, our MSc Accounting and Finance prepares you for ACCA professional level examinations alongside a highly respected master’s qualification. Develop your financial techniques and knowledge to an impressive level through an exciting combination of technical and strategic learning, improve your employability with key skills in critical thinking, communication, teamwork, leadership, and management, and learn in an accredited ACCA and CIMA study centre, drawing on the expertise of professionally qualified staff who have both industry and academic experience. Take the opportunity to go on a short to medium-term finance internship so that you benefit from relevant work experience while studying for your master’s, and add substance to your CV by completing this course, which allows you to apply for exemptions from professional accounting bodies such as ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW, CPA Australia, and AIA. This MSc Accounting and Finance prepares you to be operationally and strategically effective in senior finance roles in any sector, anywhere in the world.

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Applicants are normally required to hold a good honours degree with an accounting background. To benefit from the dual learning opportunities offered by the MSc programme, candidates should possess a good honours degree in Accounting that provides exemptions from the first nine ACCA papers, or have successfully completed ACCA papers F1–F9. It is the applicants responsibility to ensure they are registered with ACCA.

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University of Derby
Kedleston Road Derby Derbyshire DE22 1GB United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Peartree  1.8 miles away

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