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Postgraduate Study

Aims of the programme:

  • Develop genuine global thought leaders for the accounting profession.
  • Provide rigorous training in judgement under uncertainty, advanced accounting, data analytics and process management for students who have very strong academic qualifications and relevant professional experience.
  • Develop students’ independent thinking so that they can become professionally impactful change agents (eg opining about needed changes in global financial reporting standards).
  • Launch students to leadership-track career opportunities that rely on enhanced skills in judgement under uncertainty, change management, and proactive thinking.
  • Prepare students to strategically lead the immense change that technology, data, and automation have and will continue to have on the accounting profession.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding

  • A sound understanding of accounting and statistical analysis theory, fraudulent financial reporting and forensic accounting, internal controls and process management, managerial information flows etc, derived from a programme of core courses.
  • Detailed understanding of a selection of specialist areas, such as knowledge of testing business models and processes and global tax strategies, derived from elective courses and project work.

Skills

  • How to use multiple types of data sources and analyses to answer questions relevant to financial and managerial accounting as well as management decision making.
  • How to inform and detect anomalies using data from both internal and external financial reporting and processes.
  • How to justify and document algorithms and assumptions that underlie critical accounting estimates and crucial business decisions.
  • How to identify and evaluate the potential professional implications of pending technological shifts in the collection, dissemination, or attestation of financial data.

Departments

This course is advertised in the following departments:

Key Information


2 years part-time

Master of Accounting

This course is advertised in multiple departments. Please see the Overview tab for more details.

Enquiries

Course on Department Website

Dates and deadlines:

Michaelmas 2018

Applications open
Sept. 4, 2017
Application deadline
June 30, 2018
Course Starts
Sept. 13, 2018

Some courses can close early. See the Deadlines page for guidance on when to apply.

Graduate Funding Competition
Dec. 6, 2017
Gates Cambridge US round only
Oct. 11, 2017
All Overseas
Dec. 6, 2017
Gates Cambridge (EU)
Dec. 7, 2017
All EU & Home (not Gates)
Jan. 4, 2018

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