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Study Details: 1 year full-time
2 years or 30 months part-time
Explore financial crime investigations and work with business legal teams on this forensic accounting Master’s. Prepare for your career as a forensic accountant, or in internal auditing or compliance, whether you’ve studied accounting in the past or not.
Develop your knowledge and critical analysis skills as you investigate where things have gone wrong in business.
You’ll study financial crime, law and fraud as you focus on business crime prevention and prepare for case discussions with lawyers. You'll apply your learning in topical case studies and develop your understanding of what to look for in financial accounts in industry.
To start, you'll explore topics including data modelling, accountancy basics and valuations. You’ll then discover forensic investigation and fraud examination, as well as corporate governance and ethics, and learn to be an expert witness in our replica courtroom.
A second-class honours degree in a relevant subject or equivalent qualification and/or equivalent professional experience.
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This Master’s degree will help you to specialise in forensic accounting and build on your business or accountancy studies at undergraduate level.
You'll benefit from CIMA exam exemptions after you graduate. This means you'll have fewer exams to sit to become an accredited forensic accountant.
Graduates of this course have gone onto areas such as:
forensic accounting
business accounting
compliance
internal auditing
Modules:
Database Design and Data Analytics - 30 credits
Expert Witnessing and Dispute Resolution - 15 credits
Financial Accounting and Ethical Governance - 30 credits
Fraud Examination and Economic Crime Investigation - 30 credits
Independent Research, Methods and Data Modelling - 60 credits
Valuations and the Expert Report - 15 credits
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