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Programme set up: Accounting and Financial Management

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Courses for students admitted 2025

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YEAR 1, AUTUM TERM  

  • Core for students with a specialization in Finance/Financial Management in their Bachelor's Degree: GM1401 Accounting, 7,5 credits (period 1-2)
  • Core for students with a specialization in Accounting in their Bachelor´s Degree: GM1031 Corporate Finance, 7,5 credits (period 1- 2)
  • GM1402 Perspectives on Accounting and Financial Management, 7,5 credits (period 1-2)
  • GM1415 Quantitative Methods in Accounting and Financial Management 7,5 credits (period 3)
  • GM1404 Theoretical Perspectives of Financial Accounting, 7,5 credits (period 4)

YEAR 1, SPRING TERM   

  • GM1407 Applied Corporate Finance, 7,5 credits (period 1)
  • GM1405 Enterprise Risk Management, 7,5 credits (period 2)
  • GM1403 Management Accounting, Strategy and Control, 7,5 credits (period 3)
  • GM1416 Qualitative Methods in Accounting and Financial Management (period 4)

YEAR 2, AUTUM TERM

  • Elective courses, 30 credits

YEAR 2, SPRING TERM  

  • GM1460 Master Degree Project in Accounting and Financial Management, 30 credits

 

An elective course can be chosen from within the master's programme or from other master's programmes at the Graduate School.  A list of courses is made available to students each term. Lists of previous semesters' elective courses can be found on the program page (on the student portal) under the heading "Elective courses".

 

 

During semesters one and two, you take common core courses in accounting and financial management. The first semester begins with courses that ensure all students are prepared for advanced studies in both accounting and financial management. That is, you will first take EITHER a course in accounting OR a course in corporate finance. In parallel, all students take the course Perspectives of Accounting and Financial Management, which serves to provide with a theoretical basis for later courses. Then follows core subject and method courses for the first academic year.

During the third semester, you choose a number of elective courses within your area of interest. You can specialise within the field of accounting and financial management or broaden your skills with elective courses from other programmes. The third semester can also be spent at one of the school’s many partner universities, or at an external organization as part of our internship course.

In the fourth semester, you will write a master's thesis.

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