MSc in Accounting Taxation and Financial Management
Dear Visitors,
We would like to welcome you to the Department of Accounting and Finance, Postgraduate Studies Programs Official Website.
The basic goal of our Postgraduate Studies Programs is allowing for our students to specialise, in the fields of Accounting, Finance and Auditing, thus creating graduates capable of providing their services in the modern business environment as accountants, tax consultants, auditors, internal auditors, financial analysts, financial institutions and public administration executives. Furthermore, our programs aim to provide the knowledge and incentives necessary for the promotion and development of scientific research in the respective rapidly developing fields.
The quality and the criterion of continuous improvement of the services provided, the development of new professional outlets, the focus on employability for graduates as well as the acquirement of professional accreditations, is inherent in every stage of the operation of our programs. This is reflected in the modern curriculum content, the excellent scientific and professional training of the department’s staff members focusing in modern learning and teaching methods as well as in the monitoring and examination of the thematic units taught.
Keeping the aforementioned as our basic direction, the Department of Accounting and Finance Postgraduate Studies Programs have established a collaboration with corresponding postgraduate programs of various other higher education institutions, as well as with professional organizations such as the Institute of Education of the Body of Certified Public Accountants - IESOEL, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - ACCA, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales–ICAEW and the the Institute of Internal Controls - IIC, providing the graduates with a skill set that makes them competitive in the international labor market.
The facilities of our Postgraduate Programs provide fully equipped rooms and laboratories offering access to various accounting information software (ERP), mathematics, statistics and econometric analysis software, and financial analysis software. Moreover the students can access various services and databases such as Bloomberg, Compustat Global, Compustat North Americas (S&P Capital IQ) that can be used for the educational needs of both the programs courses and for the students’ scientific research.
I wish you a pleasant navigation on our Postgraduate Studies website.
Christos I. Negkakis, Professor of Accounting,
Board of Directors, University of Macedonia,
Director of the BSc in Accounting and Finance,
Head of the Postgraduate Programs,
The purpose of the Programme is to offer specialization to the graduates so that they can contribute to the promotion of knowledge in the broader subjects of Accounting, Taxation and Financial Management by creating specialized executives capable of:
(a) following a career in public and/or private sector as certified public accountants, internal auditors, tax accountants, business consultants, financial analysts, investment consultants, portfolio managers, executives of financial institutions or senior management in the public or private sector
(b) to promote the development of research and applications in the disciplines of accounting, taxation and financial management.
It also aims to offer training to senior executives of companies and organizations in the private and public sector in order to meet the needs of their specialized activities.
The coherent background of the two pathways of the MSc in "Accounting Taxation and Financial Management" is the combination of theoretical knowledge, for the understanding of the institution’s operation, with practical training in subjects of accounting and financial management science related to the private and public sector.
The MSc in “Accounting Taxation and Financial Management” leads to the award of a MSc in "Accounting Taxation and Financial Management with the following specializations:
(a) Accounting Taxation and
(b) Financial Management.
