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: