About the MSc in Strategic Management Accounting

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, in close association with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the world’s largest professional body of management accountants, is proud to offer an MSc in strategic management accounting.

The MSc in strategic management accounting provides students with a systematic and rigorous postgraduate specialisation in management accounting within the context of strategic management.

Accreditation and Awarding Body

This programme is fully accredited by CIMA and offers successful graduates full exemption from all CIMA exams, except the Institute’s final test of professional competence (T4). The awarding body is the UCD Micheal Smurfit Graduate Business School in

Who is the MSc in strategic management accounting for? 

If you want to accelerate your career progression and go on to qualify as a Chartered Management Accountant, then this programme is for you.

The programme is suitable for:

• Prospective and current CIMA students completing the CIMA management and strategic levels
• High calibre executives already pursuing a business career who wish to accelerate their promotion prospects
• Qualified accountants who want to add a specialist Master’s qualification to their CV
• Exceptional business graduates.

Admission Requirements

• At least a Second Class Honours Grade 1 or equivalent in a business degree.
• Substantial prior accounting knowledge, and not less than equivalent of CIMA exemptions P1, P2, F1.
• Minimum of two years relevant professional experience.
• For exceptional candidates, the faculty may relax either the academic or work experience requirements, but not both.
• An individual interview may form part of the selection process.

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If English is not your first language an English language qualification is required for admission to all of our programmes. The exception to this rule is if you have completed  your primary degree or an entire third level qualification through English, in an english speaking country. For more detail please view the English Language Requirements
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Programme Overview
The MSc in Strategic Management Accounting provides students with a systematic and rigorous postgraduate specialisation in management accounting within the context of strategic management. This programme is fully accredited by CIMA and offers successful graduates full exemption from all CIMA exams except the Institute’s final Test of Professional Competence (T4).
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Course objectives
The vision of the MSc in Strategic Management Accounting programme is to equip participants with a systematic and rigorous knowledge of management accounting within the context of strategic management.

The collaboration of UCD Smurfit School and CIMA, together with the business community, have informed the design of the programme so that it responds to strategic corporate needs.

The programme will:

• Equip you with the most advanced techniques and tools in management accounting, management control and performance management;
• Foster your ability to translate and implement strategic objectives through management accounting and control systems;
• Provide you with the ability and method to analyse a management accounting and control system;
• Equip you with the expertise to define and implement the management accounting and control system appropriate to the strategic needs of your organization;
• Develop your leadership capabilities to undertake key roles in the management of organisations.

Programme strengths

Particular strengths of the programme include:

• A focus on management accounting using a strategic emphasis;
• A curriculum and approach based on the best international management accounting thinking and practice in conjunction with empirically surveyed and defined needs of major national and international employers;
• Outstanding lecturers with a wealth of national and international experience, and highly motivated peer students, in a team-based learning environment;
• Extensive international problem and case materials will be used throughout the programme, as teaching tools to convey best practice;
• Students will automatically become student members of CIMA.

Your MSc in Strategic Management Accounting from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School will give you a competitive advantage that will benefit you throughout your career and expand the opportunities available to you.

Assessment

Assessment is based on examinations, which are held at the end of each semester and continuous assessment. There will be a particular emphasis on practical organisational applications of knowledge through, for example, an innovative enterprise-based research project.

Curriculum
Year 1
Semester 1
Performance Measurement & Management
Organisational Behaviour (SMA)
Strategic Management

Semester 2
Current Issues in Financial Re
Management Control Systems
Project Management (SMA)
Year 2
Semester 1
Strategic Corporate Finance
Corporate Governance & Ethics SMA
Risk Management Systems

Semester 2
Current Issues in Performance Measurement and Control
Enterprise based project

Industry Recognition
Current programme participants are employed in a variety of positions, in organisations as diverse as Allied Irish Banks, Connemara Seafoods, Deloitte, Health Service Executive, Intel, Grant Thornton, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, and Teleflex Medical Europe.

More information
Curriculum
Course objectives
Entry requirements
Apply now directly at the UCD Michael Smurfit graduate business school.

Funding
Personal loan options are available for programme participants, subject to terms and conditions. For further information, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Career Progression
As a CIMA listed student support centre Spectrium Graduate School of Business encourages CIMA graduates or individuals willing to up skill themselves to take on the MSc in Strategic Management Accounting.