Accounting and finance data informs business decision-making every day so it is vital for organisations to employ accounting and finance professionals who understand how to meet business objectives.
MAcc Accounting and Finance offers students an integrated Bachelors and Masters degree, allowing them to progress seamlessly from undergraduate to postgraduate studies within a single course.
Not only will students learn how financial information underpins leadership, strategy and planning, but they will also learn how financial decisions can impact society and the economy. Students will develop understanding of governance and ethics, so they can take actions for the good of organizations and the wider world. Students further their understanding of advanced accounting and corporate finance and can tailor their studies to their professional ambitions by choosing from a range of optional modules.
Students explore areas such as:
- the preparation of financial statements and budgets
- accounting standards and corporate governance
- financial theory
- portfolio management
- options and futures markets
- risk management
MAcc Accounting and Finance includes an introductory first year to familiarise students with wider business topics, such as management and marketing.
In the third year, students have the opportunity to put their knowledge into practice by completing an in-depth, independent research project or dissertation. This will give them the chance to further develop vital employability skills in areas of research, time management and critical thinking. Students will further supplement this with the development of their own research portfolio in the final year.
The University of Essex is one of just three UK universities to have received Q-Step Affiliate status, including for the MAcc Accounting and Finance course, to support the way it develops the quantitative skills of its graduates.
This means the University of Essex can provide work placement bursaries to develop students’ skills in evaluating numerical information, analyzing data and designing research. The University of Essex also offers the opportunity to follow a specialized degree path, where students graduate with enhanced quantitative skills. These are evidenced on their degree transcript, to help give them the competitive edge in the graduate job market.
MAcc Accounting and Finance is taught at Essex Business School, ranked 25th in the UK for research quality (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019). Their finance group is one of the largest and most respected in the country and the students and staff join from all over the world.
Essex Business School is an Investment Management Certificate (IMC) Advantage Partner and this course is aligned to the IMC syllabus, the industry’s benchmark entry-level qualification. This means that upon graduation students will have completed up to 70% of the IMC qualification which will help you complete the full qualification in a shorter time frame than most other graduates.
