Accounting - Képzés adatlap - Budapest University of Economics and Business

Accounting

About the Programme

The main goal of the Masters degree program in Accounting is to train highly qualified accounting professionals who, after acquiring up-to-date, internationally competitive, theoretical and practical knowledge, will be able to manage, control and analyze the accounting processes of economic entities. Armed with their theoretical and practical skills, business and methodological knowledge, as well as their consciously developed leadership skills, they will be suitable for middle and senior management positions in various sectors of the business world here at home, as well as abroad. They will also be equipped to process and even enrich the international and domestic accounting literature and if they wish, they can further their studies in a doctoral training program.

Main Features of the Programme

Part-time

Study SchedulePart-time
Form of FinancingState scholarship
Programme Level(M) Master’s program (MA/MSc)
LocationBudapest
LanguageHungarian
Title of the qualification on the diplomaEconomist in Accountancy
Educational RequirementUndergraduate diploma

Optional Specializations

Audit and control

(FFA Full and part-time) The specialisation focuses on the external and internal audit processes, rules and specificities of companies, looking at the different aspects of corporate compliance. The aim is to enable the student to identify, understand and analyse in depth the significant risks of a company's operations, to define the necessary processes and control points to assess and manage those risks and to document them properly to owners, management or even to the legal requirements. To achieve these goals, students will become familiar with the frameworks, rules, processes and sub-areas of internal and external control - in particular auditing. To these, risk assessment methods, methodologies for possible control solutions and responses will be assigned, and the ways and importance of documentation will be interpreted and learned. The practical applicability of all this will then be comprehensively experienced through company cases and practical exercises. The specialisation will focus on audit and control, computer support for auditing, audit case studies, accounting and control of credit institutions and budgetary bodies, responsible management.

Management Accounting

(FFA Full and part-time) The primary objective of this specialisation is to prepare participants to support the management of a company with the information and data necessary for decision making in a structured and systematic way within the management accounting and controlling system. By completing the training, students will be able to identify the issues and situations that support management decision making that can be addressed within management accounting and controlling, and use their knowledge to interpret, analyse and process these situations and present solutions to management with the appropriate data content and accuracy. To achieve these goals, they will become familiar with current trends, theoretical backgrounds, methodological tools of management accounting and controlling, and will experience the practical applicability of these by solving business cases and practical exercises. The specialisation will focus on strategic management accounting, cost and performance accounting, financial controlling, applied business valuation, computer support for accounting, accounting case studies.

If You choose this Programme....

Possessing the knowledge acquired in the Masters degree program in Accounting, our students will be suitable for the:

systematic analysis of domestic and international economic processes and the environment of business organizations,
design, operation, management and control of various economic systems and institutions,
recognition and analysis of accounting-related economic problems,
strategic and operational decisions for the solution,
management of implementation,
compilation and analysis of consolidated accounts,
monitoring and analysis of the budgetary relationships of entities.

Content of the Programme

Foundation core subjects: mathematical-statistical analysis, quantitative decision-making methods, corporate finance, legal environment of enterprises and research methods.

Professional core subjects: advanced management accounting, advanced corporate finance, accounting of financial instruments, international accounting system, preparation and analysis of consolidated annual reports, taxation of companies and budgetary control.

Areas of expertise in Management Accounting specialization: accounting theory and research, cost and performance evaluation, strategic managerial accounting, financial controlling, computer support for accounting, applied company valuation and accounting case studies.

Areas of expertise in Auditing specialization: accounting regulations, auditing system, auditing of credit institutions, computer support for auditing and audit case studies.

Career opportunities

Our Masters degree students will be suitable for positions that include the following tasks:

Domestic and international economic processes, systematic analysis of the environment of economic organizations
Development, operation and management of the accounting and control systems of various economic systems and institutions
Recognition and analysis of economic problems related to accounting activities, making strategic and operational decisions for solutions and analysis of their effects

More information

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Program leader: Dr. Andrea Szirmai Madarasiné PhD