MA Accountancy - Courses

The details below are intended to give students a guide to the courses they would be studying on the single-honours MA Accountancy programme. Joint honours students will need to add to this list courses from their other programme. To read what each course is about, click on the course code. The credits shown are Aberdeen credits (30 Aberdeen credits = 15 ECTS). Courses tagged C are compulsory. Courses tagged R are highly recommended. The Department's Teaching and Learning Convenor is Dr Chandana Alawattage and the Examinations Officer Dr Anne McGeachin. Dr Mark Whittington chairs the Staff-Student Liaison Committee.

First Year Courses

• AC 1009 ACCOUNTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY (15) (CAL TIB) C
• AC 1513 ACCOUNTING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (15) (CR, CAL, TIB, AMG) C
• EC 1006 THE ECONOMICS OF BUSINESS AND SOCIETY (15) (AZ KB) C
• MS 1507 THE CONTEXT OF BUSINESS (15) (AJS JL ASM TS) C
• PO 1002 FINANCE, RISK AND INVESTMENT (15) (NH JW ERB) C
• plus one 15 credit courses of your choice ♣

Second Year Courses

• AC 2029 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 2 (15) (CAL MWH SMH) C
• AC 2030 BUSINESS FINANCE (15) (ERB OK) C
• AC 2526 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 2 (15) (CR) C
• PO 2504 UNDERSTANDING STATISTICS (15) (DR) C
• plus a further 60 credits of courses ♣ ♦

Third and Fourth Year Courses

* To enter single or joint honours in Accountancy in academic year 2012/13, students must have achieved at least 240 credits overall, including passes (marks of 9 or above) in the following courses (or earlier equivalents): AC1009 (15) (not required for students who commenced first year studies in academic year 2009/10 or before), AC1513 (15), PO1002 (15), MS1507 (15), EC1006 (15), AC2029 (15), AC2030 (15), PO2504 (15), AC2526 (15) and normally an average of CAS 12 in all AC level 2 courses at first sitting

♣ These will normally include, for the purposes of ICAS accreditation, LS1517 (15) and LS2019 (15).

♦ Students with direct entry to year 2 will need to include PO1002 (15), MS1507 (15), EC1006 (15).

* In addition to the normal requirements that honours students must achieve 480 credits overall at levels 3 and above, including at least 90 credits at level 4, single honours students need to ensure that they achieve 30 credits worth of non AC coded courses at levels 3 or 4 to satisfy Enhanced Study requirements.

Winter Semester 2012/13

Third Year Courses

• AC 3048 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 3 (15) (CAL MWH) C
• AC 3049 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 3 (15) (CR SMH) C

Fourth Year Courses

• AC 4027 ACCOUNTING THEORY (30) (CR CAL) C

Spring Semester 2012/13

Third Year Courses

• AC 3552 AUDITING (30) (AMG DH TIB) C
• AC 3553 FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS (15) (MW)

Fourth Year Courses

• AC 4528 DISSERTATIONS IN ACCOUNTANCY (30) (CR) C
• AC 4530 DERIVATIVES AND TREASURY MANAGEMENT (30) (RB)

Winter Semester 2013/14

Third Year Courses

• AC 3048 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING 3 (15) (CAL MWH) C
• AC 3049 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING 3 (15) (CR SMH) C

Fourth Year Courses

• AC 4029 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING THEORY (30) (CR CAL) C
• AC 4030 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING THEORY (30) (CR CAL) C
• (Students taking joint honours only need take one of these two compulsory courses)
  

Spring Semester 2013/14

Third Year Courses

• AC 3552 AUDITING (30) (AMG DH TIB) C
• AC 3553 FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS (15) (MW)

Fourth Year Courses

• AC 4528 DISSERTATIONS IN ACCOUNTANCY (30) (CR) C
• FI 4530 DERIVATIVES AND TREASURY MANAGEMENT (30) (RB)