MSc Professional Accounting and Finance - Extended

Why choose this course?

This course enables entry onto the MSc Professional Accounting if you did not gain a first or second class honours at degree level (or equivalent). It will add to your existing skills and knowledge providing you with enhanced understanding and abilities which will prepare you for Masters courses.

The MSc in Professional Accounting and Finance provides an opportunity for students to both complete their ACCA qualifications and also gain a Masters in Accounting and Finance within an eighteen month period.

This course will provide you with an in depth grounding for your professional and/or academic career in finance, business and accounting. It will develop your strategic understanding and critical thinking of the main finance and accounting theories upon which modern business decisions are made as well as exploring the role and importance of accounting information in the management of corporations. Through your dissertation you will be able to investigate in depth a business, accounting or management issue, applying your research and quantitative skills which have been further developed throughout the course.

The University of Wolverhampton is the first university in the UK to provide this particular course delivered as a collaboration between the University and Kaplan financial, who are one of the world’s largest providers of professional accounting education. This course will enable students to have the opportunity to study for both ACCA final level professional papers and an MSc at the same time, enabling the student to achieve both awards in an eighteen-month period.