MPhil Accounting and Finance / Programme details

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This includes admissions, registration, student experience, progression, examination, and graduation. We collaborate closely with other University directorates including Manchester Doctoral College, Researcher Development team, and the corresponding Doctoral Academies. Together we provide the best experience and support for your studies and research

REF 2021

In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) 'Accounting and Finance' was assessed as part of our 'Business and Management Studies' submission. We were ranked 3rd in the UK for research power and top 10 in the UK (by GPA) among the 108 departments assessed.

91% of our research was judged to be in the highest two categories (4*) 'world-leading' or (3*) 'internationally excellent'. Our research environment was also judged to be strong, with 100% judged to be (4*) 'world-leading' or (3*) 'internationally excellent'. Read more about our research at Alliance Manchester Business School.

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We actively encourage applicants from diverse career paths and backgrounds and from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation and transgender status.

All appointments are made on merit. The University of Manchester and our external partners are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Our research activitiy is grouped by:

Corporate Reporting, Auditing and Business Group (CRAB) - covers reporting financial performance; accruals management and other accounting choices; market based accounting research; financial communication (both formal and informal); accounting based valuation models; the information transmission role of analysts; earnings timeliness and accounting conservatism; accounting policy choice; executive reward structures.

Auditing Group - captures work on the roles and methods of auditing; the contribution of auditing to processes of corporate governance; regulation of the auditing profession; and the contemporary developments in public/private sector auditing, in particular the changing international nature of audit regulation.

Business and Public Policy Group - focuses on management strategy, using political economy to analyse the underlying business and public policy issues; the group has expertise on sectors such as cars and media; studies major corporations such as Ford and GE; and focuses on new styles of public sector management, including the implications of private finance for public services.

Finance Group :

• Asset Pricing, Market Efficiency and Investment Analysis - empirical research includes the testing of asset pricing models, and the related areas of anomalies, return predictability and behavioural finance; portfolio theory in the presence of background risk, dynamic asset allocation, and performance measurement. 
• Financial Markets and Derivatives - including research on interest rate models and the pricing of interest rate derivatives; option pricing and techniques; volatility. 
• Corporate Finance - empirical research in the areas of IPOs, corporate governance, new and emerging stock markets, and venture capital. 
• Financial Econometrics - research including asymmetric response models, nonlinear models of share price behaviour, extreme value theory, and volatility modelling.

Management Accounting and Information Systems (MAISY) Group - incorporates management accounting and management information systems specialists.

Management Accounting Group - is especially strong in organisational, political economy and social theory approaches to accounting research utilising intensive case study methods. Particular interest is given to management accounting change and implementation.

Information Systems Group - interests include organisational, behavioural, theoretical issues relevant to the design, development, implementation/management of information technology and technological innovations.