International Accounting and Finance with Management MSc

Compulsory modules:

• Analytics for Accounting and Business

  The module will guide you understand key descriptive and predictive data analytics techniques that will enable you to perform rigorous and in-depth analysis of business data. The emphasis is on practical application of the methods using computer-based exercises with the real-world data.

• Contemporary Issues in Corporate Finance and Investment Valuation

  The modules teaches core theoretical principles and equips students with practical finance tools. You will learn how to value companies using data from Bloomberg and popular valuation methods employed by investment banks and corporate finance departments.

• Financial Reporting

  The module equips students with critical understanding of the principles and practices of accounting, characteristics and limitations of accounting data. You will learn how to prepare and interpret financial statements, to apply and comment on accounting policies and to use accounting information to assess financial performance of the business.

• Principles of Marketing and Strategy.

  This module will equip you with required knowledge and understanding of strategy and marketing established common practices that will support you in acquiring transferable skills necessary for successful careers within and beyond accounting and finance. You will appreciate the complexities involved in strategic decision making, and the role of marketing and strategy in achieving corporate performance.

You'll take two compulsory and two elective modules.

Compulsory modules

• Financial Statement Analysis

  This module leverages many materials from bulge bracket and boutique investment banks to showcase how various techniques covered in the module are used by professionals from the Wall Street, providing you with hands-on experience in analysing and interpreting financial information disclosed by firms listed on major stock exchanges.

• Strategic Management Accounting.

  The module teaches how to efficiently use the information on businesses’ products, services, processes, organisational units, suppliers, and customers. You will learn concepts, models, and systems that provide this data for the development, use and control of cost information for decision-making and performance measurement in competitive business environments.

Elective modules

• International Business Finance

  In this module students will learn about the risks that financial managers face when trading internationally in the global marketplace. You  will acquire knowledge on dynamic tools that will allow them to manage and deal with these risks.

• Entrepreneurship in a Global Context

  Learn why and how the considerable energy and risk of domestic entrepreneurship is considerably compounded in global entrepreneurship. This module blends of the basic and essential issues in entrepreneurship with how these relate to international entrepreneurship. Hence, the course provides some of the skills you will need to become an international entrepreneur. This module addresses both the theoretical and practical issues of entrepreneurship.

• Global Supply Chain Management

  This module will equip you with an in-depth understanding of the key topics of OM and SCM in a different international settings. An analytical emphasis on core operations management (OM) and supply chain management (SCM) knowledge relevant for the international business manager. In the increasingly globalised industries of today, the challenges of managing processes, operations and supply chains that span across different countries and locations is one of the most important tasks of a modern enterprise. A thorough understanding of these areas is critical to your success in international business.

• International Marketing

  Gain a sound understanding of the principles and strategies that underpin international marketing. In a nutshell, understanding international marketing comes down to understanding how the scope and challenges that arise from country differences impact our understanding of customers and how they may be effectively served.

You may choose from the five options in your final term.

• Option 1: You can take five specialist elective modules plus Career Management Skills and Research Methods (5 x 10 credits)
• Option 2: You can write a 5,000-word General Research Project (30 credits) and take three specialist elective modules (3 x 10 credits)
• Option 3: You can write an 11,000 word Research Project (60 credits)
• Option 4: You can take

  International Financial Reporting Standards

  The module provides an applied professional qualification that complements the academic program in International Accounting and Finance. You will acquire knowledge and skills to apply complex international financial reporting standards in companies operating globally.

  (30 credits) and two specialist electives plus Career Management Skills and Research Methods (3 x 10 credits)
• Option 5: You can take

  International Financial Reporting Standards

  The module provides an applied professional qualification that complements the academic program in International Accounting and Finance. You will acquire knowledge and skills to apply complex international financial reporting standards in companies operating globally.

  (30 credits) and write an 5,000 word General Research Project (30 credits).

Projects and research skills

• General Research Project

  Any business needs key research and professional skills and, to be successful, methodologically sound and rigorous research. This module allows you to demonstrate your ability to integrate and apply concepts and techniques you have learned in an in-depth study of a topic of your choice.

  This module will enable you to demonstrate the results of your learning through the development of a final project. There is no single prescribed method.  For example, you may choose to complete more traditional academic desk research, complete a business plan, or carry out a consultancy project.

• Research Project

  The aim of the module is to help you integrate your learning across a range of skills. In particular it will enable you to demonstrate the results of your learning through the development of an extensive final project which acts as a capstone to your learning.  There is no single prescribed type of project. For example, you may choose to complete more traditional academic desk research, complete a business plan, or carry out a consultancy project.

  This module will train you to undertake individual research and provide you with an opportunity to specialise in a contemporary business or finance topic related to your future career aspirations.

  Summer Internship

  If you are successful in obtaining a Summer Internship as part of your degree course, you will integrate it with your learning using a project module. Your internship project acts as a capstone to your programme and supports you in applying your academic learning in the workplace – helping you prepare for your future career.

• Career Management Skills and Research Methods

  Strong research is a key element of development strategy for companies and institutions large and small.

  This module will provide a grounding in research methods, targeted to your particular degree requirements. You will be able to use these skills to support your learning, substantiate your arguments and make assessments about the nature of the evidence you are using.

  Career and employability skills development will help you develop your aspirations, take a planned and efficient approach to your job search and / or entrepreneurial plans, and help you create a strong base from which to manage your career in the longer term. It will also help you understand how to apply your learning in the wider context of your career.

  Throughout this module you will also be encouraged to reflect on your learning through a sustainable and ethical lens. This will help you understand how to take an ethical approach to your research and taking an ethical, sustainable and forward-looking approach to your career development.

Elective modules

• Corporate Entrepreneurship

  This module aims to familiarise you with the structures and processes via which corporations endeavor to build new businesses, and the challenges that they face in this journey. It will be particularly relevant to those who are considering spending part (or all) of your career driving innovation in large organisations. In addition, as corporations represent an important source of private equity for start-up companies, this module will also be pertinent to those who wish to learn more about the challenges and implications of taking on corporate backers.

• Corporate Open Innovation

  This module employs immersive learning techniques to deepen and broaden your understanding of how large established businesses achieve their innovation objectives through collaborations with ventures in different ways: corporate incubators and venturing, and crowdsourcing for innovation.

• Creating Value with Suppliers

  The aim of the module is to provide you with a clear knowledge and understanding of how advanced buyer-supplier relationships work to create value in the form of, e.g., distinctive product features, superior technical performance, innovativeness, reduced costs, or higher responsiveness. It will illustrate the notion of interfirm collaboration, and will present several example of collaborative practices in new product development, production and logistics.

• Driving Supply Chain Innovation with Technology

  This elective will help you understand the reasons for these changes and show you how technology can be used to deliver competitive advantage across the supply chain ecosystem. The module will focus on the impact of technology across a variety of sectors including fast-fashion, retail (food, apparel), 3PL and logistics amongst others.

• Family Business

  This course is an introduction to family owned businesses in international contexts. The course is aimed at Masters students and provides an opportunity to investigate issues related to creation, continuity, mode and extent of growth and exit in family businesses. It aims to prepare you to work effectively and professionally in and with family businesses, and strategies to launch and build cross generation wealth. This course represents the perfect complement to the other courses provided in the Entrepreneurship stream of the MSc in Management.

• Luxury Marketing Strategy

  The objective of this course is to provide you with a good understanding of the specificities and current evolutions of the luxury industry and how to devise successful marketing strategies in this industry. A specific focus will be placed on the structure of the luxury industry (significant groups, actors and brands), luxury brand and products strategies, communication strategies, pricing strategies, and distribution strategies.

• Negotiation Skills for Multidiscipline Managers

  This module presents core negotiation topics of bargaining modus and mind set, goal and priority setting, negotiation styles, creative solution-finding, influencing skills, situation analysis, self-assessment tools and techniques, and methods to assess the motives and circumstances of the other side. Negotiation practise is included in every session allowing you to experiment with style, bargaining techniques, and influencing skills in a non-judgemental environment. The main goal of this module is to prepare you for negotiation in real-life situations so that you have the confidence and skill to make effective deals.

• New Market Creation.

  The aim of this module is to introduce you to the state-of-the art in new market creation theory and practice. You will learn about the different approaches and processes entrepreneurs and managers use to create new markets. These will be brought to life through interactive discussions of real-world cases. A key learning is that established market representations can be misleading.

International electives:

• Corporate Open Innovation - taught in Rome, Italy
• Creating Value with Suppliers - taught in Bologna, Italy
• Luxury Marketing Strategy - taught in Paris, France.