University of Dundee

Course Details

Accounting, Management and Strategy MSc

Course Description

Our MSc in Accounting, Management and Strategy will put you at the hub of day-to-day and strategic organisational life. Tomorrow’s management accountants and consultants are dynamic partners to business managers. They are leaders of change management projects, systems design, strategy formulation and much more. Leading-edge research indicates a broad knowledge of strategic management issues is becoming essential in all medium and large organisations. Financial and non-financial management has become an important requirement for managers across all business functions. Dundee is an elite university. It has designed this course to enable ambitious graduates to join the fast-changing worlds of management accountants, management consultants and global business managers. This is an ideal course if you already have a sound background in accounting and/or business and want to move up to management accountant or management consultant roles within a business. Our MSc Accounting, Management and Strategy course is informed by the latest, and leading-edge, research in the relevant discipline areas, provides insight into the roles and skills required for tomorrow's management accountants, consultants and global business managers, includes organisational case studies relating to (changing) financial management and management accounting practice, incorporating group discussions and presentations, elevates graduate professionalism and employability. For the benefit of overseas students particularly, the course includes educational and cultural experiences which are unique to the UK and familiarise students with global business protocols. You’ll be learning from leading practitioners through the University’s Distinguished Visitor and Enterprise Gym Lecture Series and hearing from them, first hand, about critical aspects of real-world business and accounting. We welcome students from the UK and elsewhere to our stimulating, supportive, friendly and well-organised campus. Dundee is among the fastest risers in the 2017 Guardian University Rankings and has also been rated the best in Scotland by some of the most influential higher education surveys.

Course Duration

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1year

Career outcomes

Students will be equipped with the necessary skills to embark on various business-related careers. Those with an accounting and/or finance background will be able to pursue such exciting and fast-changing careers as management accountancy or management consultancy within business organisations. Others will be able to pursue a more general managerial career with increased financial and commercial astuteness, as well as nurture a global business perspective. We have excellent employment records for our students (and an impressive Alumni), and this new master's-level course is intended to continue this pattern of success and enable students to embark on fulfilling and rewarding careers. In this regard, the structure of the degree, with an emphasis on developing both technical and generic (soft) skills, in the context of a fast-changing business environment, will stand students in good stead.




Accounting, Management and Strategy MSc University of Dundee