Our MSc is an accounting and finance-based master’s with a financial analysis focus.

The global financial and business environment is rapidly changing. Increased regulatory supervision has highlighted the importance of sound financial analysis and robust reporting for business decision making. This course has been developed to meet this need and to enable you to develop: 

• an in-depth understanding of accounting, finance and financial analysis
• quantitative and qualitative skills of analysis
• professional attributes and financial analytical skills

You'll gain more specialist knowledge of issues related to financial analysis.

The course is suitable for business and non-business graduates with good numeracy levels who wish to develop the specialist understanding and skills of financial analysis. 

The course also covers many relevant topics for those intending to study for the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams.

What you'll learn:

This master’s starts with three weeks of intensive training in fundamental accounting knowledge. This is to remedy the knowledge gap for students from different educational backgrounds.

You'll learn to:

• apply quantitative and qualitative skills to real-world complex scenarios
• use the analysis results for evidence-based decision-making

Advanced statistical software

Where possible you'll have access to advanced statistical software including:

• Stata
• SPSS

You'll analyse individual companies from an external perspective with substantial emphasis placed on:

• corporate strategy
• accounting
• valuation

Financial databases

You'll undertake practical studies of real-world data via DataStream and other industry sources. You'll develop skills in the manipulation of financial and statistical software.

Professional skills:

You'll benefit from our status as a Bloomberg Experiential Learning Partner. Through self-study, you'll complete the Bloomberg Market Concepts certificate. This gives you an interactive introduction to the financial markets.

On completion of this course, you'll be able to show practical skills and the ability to:

• integrate your accounting and finance knowledge and skills to assess corporate performance and valuation
• deal with complex issues both systematically and analytically
• use analytical skills to make sound judgements around investment management
• analyse quantitative data used for operational decision making
• critically engage with contemporary debates on financial theory
• apply, with originality and creativity, the knowledge, skills and understanding gained on the course to complex issues within the finance sector

Our Careers Service:

Our award-winning Careers Service is one of the largest and best in the country, and we have strong links with employers. We provide an extensive range of opportunities to all students through our ncl+ initiative.