Accounting and Finance
Introduction
The Master’s specialisation in Accounting and Finance is intended for students, who want to pursue a career in Accounting and Finance. The aim of the Master’s specialisation in Accounting and Finance is to provide a challenging, high-level academic education in the field of financial business economics.
This Master’s specialisation offers a comprehensive and thorough education in business economics and aims to examine problems from a practical, but also an analytical point of view. The unique combination of accounting and finance provides students with an ‘all-round’ perspective on financial issues. The Master’s specialisation focuses on a broad area of activities such as financial planning and budgeting, internal reporting, cost and revenue control, investment analysis and selection, maintenance planning, financing, establishing and maintaining contacts with banks and other sources of capital asset management, legal affairs, fiscal planning, external reporting and ICT/Information Management.
The specialisation is structured in such a way that it caters to student’s interests both Accounting and Finance. For their seminars, students are required to choose one seminar in the field of finance and one seminar in the field of accounting. Especially in the field of finance, there are a lot of different seminars that students can choose from. This offers students the possibility to tailor the Master’s specialisation to their own personal interests.
Facts
Below you see an overview of the key facts of the Master's specialisation in Accounting and Finance:
Start | September 2012 |
Duration | Full-Time (1 year) |
ECTS | 60 |
Language | English |
Programme Coordinator | Drs. R. van der Wal RA |
Title | MSc |
Study Association |
Curriculum
Below you see an overview of the curriculum of the Master's specialisation in Accounting and Finance:
Courses | Student Workload |
Accounting Process Management 1a | 4 ECTS credits |
Accounting Process Management 1b | 4 ECTS credits |
Security and ICT Audit, Exchange Rates: a Behavioral Finance | 4 ECTS credits |
One seminar to be chosen from: | 12 ECTS credits |
Seminar Advanced Financial Accounting or seminar Advanced Management Accounting and Control | 12 ECTS credits |
Financial Information Systems 2 | 4 ECTS credits |
International Financial Reporting and Analysis | 4 ECTS credits |
Master’s thesis | 16 ECTS credits |
Programme | 60 ECTS credits |
The core courses help students to get acquainted with a wide range of topics that are essential for accounting and finance and provide a solid background for attending the seminars. The seminars are the most important components of the Master’s specialistion. For these intensified courses, active participation and commitment are mandatory. Students are expected to write and to present several papers, present aspects of the literature or case applications, ask questions, express doubts and share ideas in class discussions. The last two blocks of the programme are devoted to the Master’s thesis. The thesis is written individually under close supervision by one of our academic staff members. For more information about the specialisation please go to this webpage and select your specialisation.
Application and Admission
The application and admission procedure differs for Dutch university students, HBO students and international students. Please click on this link and then choose to which group you belong and you will be directed to the correct application and admission procedure.
Career prospects
The Master's specialisation in Accounting & Finance prepares the students for a wide and challenging range of jobs in the field of financial business economics.
