MSc Law and Accounting

About the MSc programme

This programme draws on the resources of the Department of Law| and Department of Accounting| and is intended for graduates with a good first degree in law or accounting or a degree which contains elements of law or accounting. Some management, business and economics degrees may also be accepted.

The programme is designed for students who have studied or worked in legal, accounting or related fields. You take four courses – a core compulsory course, one course in each of law and accounting (the choice depending on your specialist background), and a further option in a relevant field.

The core course requires you to write a long essay and is also assessed by examination.

The English language requirements are a minimum of 7.5 in the IELTS (TOEFL iBT 114) with a minimum of 7.0 in the listening and writing elements (TOEFL iBT) (see English language requirements|).

You do not need GMAT for entry on to the programme but it could be to your advantage to take it if you wish to be accepted on to certain advanced accounting and finance options within this degree. Please see Admissions Enquiries System|.

Teaching for the compulsory course and law courses will be primarily through seminars. Teaching in the accounting courses will normally be by a combination of lectures and classes or seminars.

The compulsory core course is examined by an interdisciplinary long essay and a two-hour examination. The other full unit courses are examined mainly by a traditional three-hour examination (or by a two-hour exam in the case of half units) but students should check requirements for individual courses. 

Compulsory course

• Corporate Accountability: Topics in Legal and Accounting Regulation

Options

(* half unit)

Law

Choose one unit (subject to your supervisor's approval) from:   

• Law of Corporate Finance 
• Insolvency Law: Principles and Policy
• International Tax Systems
• Regulation of Financial Markets
• Taxation of Corporate Transactions
• Elements of Taxation
• Financial Law* 
• Value Added Tax
• Internet and New Media Law
• Corporate and Financial Crime
• Innovation, Technology and Patent Law 
• Trademark Law  
• Legal Risk in Financial Markets*
• Law of Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in Europe and the United States
• The Law and Practice of International Finance*
• Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in Europe*
• Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US*
• New Media Regulation*
• Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects
• Business Taxation*
• Principles of Taxation*
• Consumption Taxes*
• Value Added Tax in the European Context*
• Law of International Economic and Financial Sanctions* 
• or any other LLM course for which the prerequisites are appropriate, with the course director's agreement

Accounting

• Either Financial Reporting in Capital Markets (for those with a prior knowledge of accounting)
• or Management Accounting and Financial Accounting: Decisions, Control, Reporting and Disclosure

Choose a further law course from the list above (subject to your background), or one unit from the following (subject to permission):  

• Management Accounting, Strategy and Organisational Control*
• Accounting, Strategy and Control*
• Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management*
• Valuation and Security Analysis*
• Accounting in the Global Economy*
• Corporate Finance and Asset Markets 
• Introduction to Regulation*
• Media and Communications Regulation* 
• Any other relevant master's degree course, for which you satisfy the prerequisites and with the course director's approval.

Please note that not all the optional courses mentioned above will be available every year.