Master of Accounting

PROGRAMME OUTLINE

This programme is specifically designed to provide:

• Exposure towards both financial and managerial aspects of accounting.
• Knowledge of current and latest practices and principles of accounting.
• In-depth knowledge of accounting concepts and standard procedures.
• Exposures towards professionalism and ethical standards needed to execute accountabilities and responsibilities in evaluation and decision making.
• FinTech knowledge and technical skill relevant to Accounting and Finance.

On successful completion of this programme, you will be able to :

• Demonstrate a coherent and advanced understanding of the concepts, principles of accounting, its applications and financial workings, and also the application of such understanding in using those financial assets to the real world of business and investment.
• Describe and comment on advanced scholarship in accounting and finance and critically evaluate arguments and assumptions to make judgments.
• Demonstrate the ability to recognise and appropriately respond to ethical issues in the practice of accounting by incorporating appropriate professional codes of conduct and social responsibility.
• Use oral, written and electronic communication to elicit information, to explain, debate and present complex arguments, knowledge and rationale to different audiences and circumstances.
• Gather, interpret, evaluate, analyse and apply relevant professional standards to complex accounting-related issues, and come to well-reasoned conclusions.
• Demonstrate a commitment to life-long learning and professional development by reading and critically appraise management theory.