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Opleiding: Master in Finance & Accounting

Learning purpose

The Master in Finance and Accounting programme provides you with an understanding of how financial decisions can affect a firm’s value. A financial approach towards managerial decision-making, taking into account behavioural aspects, describing and analysing problems of choice and providing executives with the background and tools for financial analysis, is indispensable.

 

The role of finance and accounting professionals is changing rapidly. The focus is on issues related to the role of financial information in facilitating the operations of capital markets and in helping managers plan and control the way their

instructions operate. However, today’s accountants are performing less auditing work due to liability exposures and lower profitability. Their tax preparation responsibilities have also decreased due to growing competition from specialised tax firms. More and more, now is an opportune time for accounting professionals interested in changing industries. These professionals are advising senior management on financial matters and taking a more active role in analyzing corporate operations.

 

This Master programme is built on three pillars: the educational programme, the research programme and the personal development programme. The educational programme provides a profound knowledge of the necessary theories and frameworks and apply theory to practice. The research programme prepares the student for academic research. In the personal development programme students reflect on themselves and the programme, in order to gain an understanding of their personal growth in the study programme.

The curriculum of the Master programme consists of core modules, specialisation modules and elective modules. This design was adopted to create the combination of knowledge, skills and competencies that all professionals in the business field must have.

 

Programme

The curriculum of the Master programme consists of core modules, specialisation modules and elective modules. This design was adopted to create the combination of knowledge, skills and competencies that all professionals in the business field must have.

The first three blocks of the study programme start with a combination of core modules and specialisation modules. The core modules, which focus on management and research, provide the solid foundation of the Master Degree. The core modules are: Organisational Behaviour, Organisational Architecture, Business Ethics and Politics, Management of Technology, Critical thinking and Argument Analysis, and Research Methodology. The specialisation modules focus on key topics in the specialisation.

Programme structure

Block 1

Core modules

- Organisational Behaviour

- Critical Thinking and Argument Analysis

-  Personal Development Programme

-  Interactive Project Design

Specialisation modules

- International Finance and Accounting

- Strategy and Performance Measurement + one elective

 

Block 2

Core modules

- Organisational Architecture

- Research Methodology

-  Personal Development Programme

-  Interactive Project Design

Specialisation modules

- Strategy and Control Systems

- Strategy and Financial Decisions + one elective

 

Block 3

Core modules

- Business Ethics and Politics

- Management of Technology

-  Personal Development Programme

-  Interactive Project Design

Specialisation modules

- Strategy and Profit Goals

- Treasury Management   + one elective

 

Block 4

-  Personal Development Programme

-  Final Thesis

 

Entry Requirements

Bachelor with business-related major

GMAT 500

IELTS 6.5

 

The GMAT and IELTS requirements do not apply for Bachelors from Dutch IBMS programme (accredited schools only)

The IELTS requirement does not apply for native speakers of English and students from fully English-taught Bachelor programmes in the Netherlands.

 

Professional perspective and employment market

Master in Finance and Accounting Graduates perform successfully in such fields as:

• Translating external developments to internal business processes; 
• Providing support for decisions about critical financial issues; 
• Analysing the financial performance of the organisation as a whole and of ‘business unites’; 
• Implementing up-to-date costing systems and allocating decision rights; 
• Developing a conceptual framework for providing accounting information to investors and creditors.

 

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