StudyQA — Master: Accounting

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The Master’s Programme in Accounting gives you in-depth expertise in the production and use of financial information.

Accounting is in the heart of businesses, and a critical part of financially sound, workable solutions to often complex and ambiguous managerial challenges. The Master’s Programme in Accounting gives you the opportunity to learn invaluable tools for succeeding in the often turbulent contemporary organisations.

Programme overview: Management and Financial accounting

In the Master’s Programme in Accounting, you can specialise in management accounting or financial accounting:

Management accounting helps you learn how to prepare and use financial and non-financial information to serve the needs of managerial control and decision-making. The core topics in this area of specialisation include

accounting for management control
strategic management accounting
capital investment decisions, and
management accounting information systems

Financial accounting helps you learn how to prepare and use financial statement information to serve the needs of outside stakeholders, especially the decision making of debt and equity holders. The core topics in this area of specialisation include

theories of financial statements
international and national accounting standards
issues in group accounting and consolidated financial statements, and
auditing theory and practice

In both specialisation areas, you also gain knowledge and expertise in issues such as

financial statement analysis
company law
financial institutions
corporate governance, and
different research methodologies

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

1. General admission requirements

The application must first fulfill the general eligibility requirements before it is sent to the Master's programme for academic evaluation. Read carefully the general admission requirements, information on admission groups, selection schedule, required application documents and application instructions on our website section admissions.

In addition to the general eligibility requirements, each Master's programme has programme-specific evaluation criteria.

2. Programme-specific requirements

The admission group depends on the degree you are applying with. Only applicants with a lower university degree in “Economics and Business Administration” completed in a university in Finland apply in Admission Group 1. The name of the degree is kauppatieteiden kandidaatti, KTK in Finnish. All other applicants apply in Admission Group 2.