Strategic Financial Management

Why study Strategic Financial Management at Dundee?

As leading-edge research suggests, a broad knowledge of strategic management issues will, in the future, be essential in all medium and large organisations. Financial and non-financial management is no longer only for accountants, but is an important requirement amongst managers across all business functions. This programme offers students with an excellent platform, post-graduation, to enter the fast-changing worlds of management accountants, management consultants and global business managers.

Our course:

• is informed by the latest, and leading-edge, research in the relevant discipline areas,
• provides leading-edge insight into the roles and skills requirements for tomorrow's management accountants, consultants and global business managers,
• contains an infusion of organisational case studies relating to (changing) financial management and management accounting practice, incorporating group discussions and presentations,
• features graduate professionalism and employability.

What's so good about Strategic Financial Management at Dundee?

The MSc in Strategic Financial Management tackles subject areas that go beyond just financial analysis per se and encapsulates many other important aspects of the remit of today's management accountants, management consultants and business managers – which could include (but is by no means restricted to): strategy, change management, international financial reporting, corporate governance, corporate responsibility, accounting in developing countries or Islamic accounting.

The modules you study encourage you to think analytically and critically about the ways in which modern businesses organisations create and use financial (and non-financial) information, in both operational and strategic contexts.

An additional aim, specifically for overseas students, is to provide educational and cultural experiences which are unique to the UK; indeed a great deal of this uniqueness can also be attributed to Scotland and even Dundee.

Introduction to the School of Business

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Who should study this course?

It offers management for those students who already have some accounting and/or finance background, and is suited to those students wishing to pursue careers as management accountants or management consultants within business organisations.

In addition, the programme also caters for non-specialists who wish to pursue a more general business/managerial career, but with increased financial and commercial astuteness.

Related courses

• All Accounting PG courses
• All Finance PG courses

Teaching & Assessment

This course is taught by Accounting & Finance staff in the School of Business.

The start date is September each year, and lasts for 12 months.

Careers

Students will be equipped with the necessary skills to embark on various business-related careers. Those with an accounting and/or finance background will be able to pursue such exciting and fast-changing careers as management accountancy or management consultancy within business organisations. Others will be able to pursue a more general managerial career with increased financial and commercial astuteness, as well as nurture a global business perspective.

The School of Business has excellent employment records for its students (and an impressive Alumni), and this new Masters-level programme is intended to continue this pattern of success and enable students to embark on fulfilling and rewarding careers. In this regard, the structure of the degree, with an emphasis on developing both technical and generic (soft) skills, in the context of a fast-changing business environment, will stand students in good stead.

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Entry Requirements

An undergraduate honours degree or a relevant professional qualification.

English Language Requirement: IELTS of 6.5 (or equivalent), if your first language is not English. Please check our Language Requirements page for details of equivalent grades from other test providers, and information about the University of Dundee English Language courses.

Fees and Funding

Fees:

Academic Year Home/EU Overseas 2011-12 £3,400 £10,000 (MSc/MRes) 2012-13 £3,400 £10,500 (MSc/MRes) 2013-14 to be confirmed to be confirmed

Sources of Funding

Information about the School of Business scholarships can be found on the School of Business scholarships webpage.

Other sources of funding for postgraduate students can be found on our Scholarships webpage.

Living Costs

• Dundee is ranked as one of the most affordable places for students to live in the UK, and the cost of living is around 15% cheaper than the UK average.
• Increasing numbers of students are successfully undertaking part-time work to supplement their income. You can get advice from our Careers Service, both about job opportunities and how to find a suitable study/work/life balance. EU and international students are also allowed to work up to 20 hours per week.
• As a student in Scotland, you have free access to the National Health Service. Visits to doctors and hospitals, as well as prescriptions, sight tests and dental checkups, are available free of charge.

How to Apply

Apply online via UKPASS