Accounting and finance
Our award-winning accounting and finance experts will take your skills and knowledge to the next level. Our industry links will help to prepare you for a successful professional career.
- Courses hold CFA institute partnership status
- CFA scholarship and online CFA coaching available to the best performing students.
- Academics offer training on specialised statistical software, such as MATLAB and Stata as part of a range of extracurricular activities organised for students.
- All students have the opportunity to participate at a Manchester-based week-long Trading BootCamp, run by Amplify Trading
- Provides experience of real-world trading
- Opportunity to engage with contemporary financial markets, enabling you to apply classroom theory in practice.
- The Library's Finance Zone provides access to one of the UK’s most comprehensive collections of specialist financial and business databases used by top researchers around the world
- Databases include Bloomberg, Datastream, Thomson ONE, Compustat, WRDS, Capital IQ plus many more.
19th in the world for Accounting and Finance according to the 2023 QS World Rankings.
5 of our professors have won the British Accounting and Finance Association’s Distinguished or Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sunvin Kim
Republic of Korea MSc Quantitative Finance
“There are many study spaces as well as meeting spaces that students can organise group meetings for their course study or group assignment. Moreover, students can access collections of financial and business databases, such as Bloomberg, WRDS, Datastream in the Finance Zone. As a finance student, it is a great opportunity to experience specialist financial databases that are widely used by researchers and practitioners.”
Who will be teaching me
You have access to world- leading academics across all our courses. Our experts share their original thinking and help you nurture your own.
Kevin Artez
Professor of Finance, MSc Quantitative Finance
“My lectures are lively, stimulating and thought-provoking — packed with many real-world examples from my experiences of working as a financial consultant. There’s lots of interaction between me and the class. In my opinion, this is very important in order to bring some highly mathematical course material to life.”
Nooch Kuasirikun
Programme Director, MSc Accounting
“My class on International Accounting Practice and Regulation is interactive and lively. It provides a platform for international students to share their experiences in the accounting field. My research on international accounting plays a vital role in class in widening theoretical understanding and practical issues in the international accounting arena."
Faculty of Humanities
The University of Manchester