MSc Accounting & Finance

Take your accounting background a step further with our MSc Accounting & Finance

Challenge yourself to explore how accounting and reporting decisions affect markets and companies, and view accounting in its wider social context with our MSc Accounting & Finance.

Using your quantitative skills, our course will help you to develop a more critical understanding of the world of accounting, whilst exploring the most current theories and cutting-edge techniques in finance. Finance modules are taken from our MSc Finance, one of the UK’s top finance courses*.

The course is designed to give you all the accounting and finance tools needed to step into a wide range of financial and accounting careers in an international environment.

*The Financial Times ranks our MSc Finance 13th in the world and 4th in the UK in their Masters in Finance Pre-experience ranking 2021.

Start Date September 2022
Duration 1 year
Location Warwick Campus
Format Full-time
UK Fees £31,750 *
EU/International Fees £36,750 *

* See fees and funding for fees breakdown.

11 Nationalities (2021 cohort)

85 Cohort size

22 Average age

Benefits

Finance modules taken from our highly ranked MSc Finance course
Apply to the QTEM Masters Network Program and spend up to an additional 12 months studying at one or two International Academic Partners, completing an internship, and taking part in a global Data Challenge with fellow QTEM students
Dedicated careers coaching by Accounting & Finance specialists
Elective modules to help you specialise, or explore areas outside of your comfort zone.

What our graduates do

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My experience at WBS has helped me to make more objective and efficient decisions in my role."

Callie Wang Credit Manager, Barclays,
MSc Accounting & Finance (2011 - 2012)

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My course gave me a foundation of financial knowledge which I've applied throughout my career at PwC."

Sofia Asatridi Management Consultant, PwC,
MSc Finance & Economics (2011 - 2012)

Student experiences

The programme offers a good combination of accounting and finance modules along with a diverse range of optional elective modules providing the opportunity to deepen your understanding in your chosen field."

Shutong Liu MSc Accounting & Finance (2018 - 2019)

You will really go beyond the simple application of learned concepts and get the knowledge to critically reflect on the current practice in accounting and finance."

Maxi Obring MSc Accounting & Finance (2016 - 2017)

Start Date September 2022
Duration 1 year
Location Warwick Campus
Format Full-time
UK Fees £31,750 *
EU/International Fees £36,750 *

* See fees and funding for fees breakdown.

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