MSc Accounting and Finance is for recent graduates with first degrees in accounting, finance, accounting and finance, management, economics, sociology, political science and other social science subjects.

The programme is designed to provide a career entry opportunity for full-time students as well as a career development opportunity for accountants, auditors, practicing managers, business consultants and finance experts from various backgrounds, to enhance and develop their accounting and finance skills.

Recent financial crises induced by various accounting scandals necessitate the qualitative training of highly skilled accounting/finance experts for the sustainability of today’s modern business. The programme aims to balance theoretical analysis with practical application to develop a critical and questioning approach to the conceptual underpinnings of accounting and finance.

Graduates from the School of Finance and Management leave SOAS with a coherent and solid knowledge of management and finance, with skills in statistics and computing, critical reasoning and analytical thinking.

Recent Finance and Management graduates have been hired by:

• Christian Aid
• Dagong Global
• Deloitte
• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
• Elbus Group
• Financial Times
• FM Capital Partners
• HM Treasury
• Houlihan Lokey
• Huaxia Bank, China
• IDB (Islamic Development Bank)
• Investec
• J.P. Morgan Asset Management
• KPMG
• Lloyds Banking Group
• Santander
• UBS
• University of Oxford
• White & Case LLP
• World Food Programme