Master's Degree in "International Accounting, Auditing and Financial Management". School of Economics, Business Administration and Legal Studies. International Hellenic University.

Description

Knowledge:
• Thorough and integrated understanding of the principles and applications of the basic functions in the field of International Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Administration.
• Specialisation on issues of strategy for numerous aspects of Accounting, Auditing and Financial Administration.
• Opportunity to gather, analyse, and synthesise accounting and finance data, by using econometrics software.
• Combination and understanding of accounting and auditing knowledge with those of the financial science.
• By combining the above, better understanding of the international financial operational environment of businesses.

Skills:
• Search for, analyse, and synthesise data and information, using the necessary technologies.
• Plan and manage projects.
• Generate new research ideas.
• Promote free, creative, and conductive thought.
• Decision-making.

Competences:
• Practical application of the knowledge.
• Adjustment to new situations.
• Autonomous work.
• Group work.
• Work within an international environment.
• Respect to diversity and multiculturalism.
• Respect to the natural environment
• Presentation of social, professional, and moral responsibility with regard to gender-related issues.
• Opportunity to criticise and self-criticise.
• Written and oral communication in English.

Further Information

The MSc in International Accounting, Auditing and Financial Management of the International Hellenic University aims to provide postgraduate education in International Accounting, Auditing and Financial Management and it is addressed to students and company or organisation executives interested in acquiring specialised knowledge in this field.
The Programme unifies comprehensively the theory with practice, and offers students with the following:
• A wide and concise sum of knowledge, principles, and applications of accounting, auditing, and finance, in combination with the acquisition of theoretical and practical skills.
• Thorough knowledge of accounting, auditing, and financial applications for large and small businesses and organisations.
• Focus on financial issues of various business branches.
• Understanding of international issues of accounting, auditing, and finance, in a multicultural point of view.
• A diploma that can be easily adjusted to a wide range of career options in the field of accounting, auditing and finance.
• Option to specialise in specific fields of interest for the students.

Relation To Employment

Holders of qualifications that belong to this type may work either as self-employed or in positions of responsibility in companies and organizations in the private or in the public sector.

Transitions

Access to this type of qualification have those who hold a Bachelor Degree (level 6). The selection of graduate students is mainly based on the following criteria: the overall grade of the Bachelor Degree, the grades in undergraduate courses that are relevant with the subjects of the Master’s program, the performance in thesis, where is foreseen at the undergraduate level and any research activity of the candidate. The detailed application of the above mentioned criteria, the definition of additional criteria or the conducting of examinations and interviews, the results of which are taken into account in the selection, are determined by decision of the relevant Department.
Holders of such qualifications gain access to study programmes at the same level or at level 8.

Ways To Aquire

Qualifications of this type are acquired via formal education.