Accounting, Master of Science (Economics and Business Administration)

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

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 usefinancial statement information to serve the needs ofoutside 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

After the studies in accounting

As a graduate of Accounting, you will have broad career prospects. Below are some typical jobs in which you can work with the high level professional expertise in accounting that the programme gives you. The programme also provides prerequisite knowledge to pursue post-graduate doctoral studies.

• Business controller
• Chief financial officer
• Loan officer
• Business consultant
• Auditor
• Advisor
• Analyst

Master's Programme in Accounting on laskentatoimen maisteriohjelma, joka tarjoaa opiskelijalle syventävää osaamista rahoitusinformaation tuotannossa ja käytössä. Ohjelma on kokonaan englanninkielinen.