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WELCOME

TO LSE DEPARTMENT OF

ACCOUNTING

MSc Accounting and Finance Student Handbook

Key dates Term dates and LSE closures – Academic Year 2018/19 Michaelmas Term (MT) Thursday 27 September – Friday 14 December 2018 Reading Week: 5 November – 9 November 2018

School Closures LSE will be closed during the following periods: Christmas Closure Friday 21 December 2018 – Tuesday 1 January 2019

Lent Term Monday 7 January – Friday 29 March 2019 January Exams: 7 January – 11 January 2019 Reading Week: 18 February – 22 February 2019

Summer Term Monday 29 April – Friday 14 June 2019 Summer Exams: 6 May – 14 June 2019

Easter Closure Thursday 18 April –Wednesday 24 April 2019 May Bank Holiday Monday 6 May 2019 Spring Bank Holiday Monday 27 May 2019 Summer Bank Holiday Monday 26 August 2019

Contents Department of Accounting Welcome

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Facebook

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Aims of the Programme

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Key Information

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Professional Service Staff

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Student Service Centre

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Welcome from Ken Lee

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Student Representation

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About the Department

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Quality Assurance

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Starting Your Programme

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LSE Services to support you with your studies and in your career

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

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Your Wellbeing and Health

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Exam and Assessment

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Plagiarism

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Results and Classification

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Fee and Finance

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Codes and Charters

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Systems and Online Resources

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Feedback

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Accounting Careers Consultant Team

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MSc Accounting and Finance

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Course Selection and Timetable

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Course Choice Videos

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Diploma Students now Studying MSc Accounting and finance

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AC480 – Quantitative Methods in Accounting and Finance

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Academic Mentor

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Dissertation Option – AC499

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Department of Accounting Website

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Student Information Centre, Department of Accounting

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Study Facilities

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Contacting Teaching Staff

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SU Accounting and Finance Societies

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Events

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Insights Speaker Series

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Graduate Weekend

Department of Accounting Welcome Dear MSc Accounting and Finance Student Welcome to the LSE. Excitement, challenge, pleasure and some considerable hard work await you over this coming academic year! You are part of a very select group of individuals admitted to this programme. The Department of Accounting itself attracts world class academics who engage in a variety of research areas and expose students to critical issues affecting the field. You will find yourself placed at the cusp of new accounting thought and novel issues affecting practice. Year, graduates from the MSc Accounting and Finance programme take up demanding positions in a diverse range of organisations spread around the globe. Some launch their own start-ups, others join investment banks, brokerage houses, consultancies, professional services firms, financial boutiques and industrial concerns. Many decide to pursue further graduate study. The “LSE experience” in one way or another shapes every MSc candidate’s future growth and potential. To assist you in making the best use of resources within the Department of Accounting and at LSE, and to guide your programme of study, the following pages document what you will need to know. Whilst this student handbook is as comprehensive as we could make it, if you have any questions you do not find answers to, please ask at the Student Information Centre, or the MSc Programme Manager (Dorothy Richards).

Professor Wim Van der Stede Head of Department of Accounting

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Aims of the Programme This degree leads to a Masters of Science in Accounting, Organisations and Institutions. Students typically take four units of taught courses, with examinations at the end of the academic year.

programme also provides a thorough preparation for academic research in accounting or related fields, such as management, governance, political science, and economic history, to name a few.

The programme is designed for students interested in a career in accounting and assurance, management, advisory services and management consulting, regulation and standard setting, among other career directions, in both the private and public sectors, including policy institutes. The

Given the high level of academic performance expected from students, a significant amount of independent study and preparation is required for successful completion of the programme. The MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions programme runs for 10 months full-time only.

Professional Services Staff

Justin Adams

Yvonne Guthrie

Sandra Ma

Salah Ud-Din

BSc Accounting and Finance Programme Manager

Department Manager

Student Community and Operations Manager

Administrator (CARR and SIC)

Room OLD 3.20 Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6542

Room OLD 3.19 Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6408

Room OLD 3.22. Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7109 5198

Rebecca Baker

Muhammed Sabih Iqbal

Dorothy Richards

PhD in Accounting and Finance Programme Manager

MSc Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Programme Manager

MSc and Diploma in Accounting and Finance Programme Manager

Room OLD 3.22 Email:[email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6278

Room OLD 3.22 Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6603

Room OLD 3.22 Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7737

Keep in touch with us on social media

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Room OLD 3.20 Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7852 3780

Welcome from Ken Lee Dear MSc Accounting and Finance Student I would like to take this opportunity to extend to you a warm welcome to the LSE! This is such a special and exciting university to attend and I have little doubt that you will gain significantly in all sorts of interesting ways from your studies and the experience of living in London. More specifically, as the director for your MSc programme, I look forward to getting to know you and bringing you into the Department of Accounting community. We want you to feel supported from your first day so you can quickly become settled and make the most of your time with us. I very much look forward to meeting you in September. Best regards

Ken Lee MSc Accounting and Finance Programme Director

About the Department The Department of Accounting continues to enjoy a reputation as one of the leading groups in the world for teaching and research on the economic, institutional and organisational aspects of accounting and financial management. Maintaining and advancing our leading international reputation for teaching and research is our top priority, and thus, we are committed: • To enhance still further the quality of the student experience in our programmes at both the undergraduate and graduate level, such as by maintaining effective student-faculty ratios and ensuring an appropriate balance and mix of students to maintain diversity and quality of the educational experience. • To strengthen further our outstanding research environment through research seminars, visitors and strong links with other departments, research centres and external constituencies, making it possible to study relevant accounting issues within the rich context of the social sciences in line with the School’s intellectual tradition. We are proud about the diversity in everything we do, as it is the key to our competitive advantage locally as well as globally. We therefore strive to continue to combine ‘global appeal’ with a distinctive ‘European orientation’ in terms of institutional knowledge and affiliations as well as intellectual traditions.

The following web pages provide further information about our programmes and research, as well as our faculty, news and events, and links to other organisations. We hope you will find these pages insightful in providing the information you are looking for. Finally, we play a leading role in scholarship through our editorial contribution to a number of academic international journals, such as: • Professor Peter Miller is Associate Editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society; • Professor Wim Van der Stede is Editor of Management Accounting Research; • Professor Bjorn Jorgensen is Associate Editor of the Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance; • Professor Ane Tamayo is Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; • Dr Andrea Mennicken is Associate Editor of the European Accounting Review; • Other faculty are on the editorial boards of numerous and a wide variety of journals.

Starting Your Programme The New Arrivals Checklist is a useful tool for preparing to commence your programme at the LSE. The following covers your immediate priorities in the first few weeks of the first term:

Week

Activity Name

Date

Time

Venue

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School Welcome Presentation

Tuesday 25 September

10 – 11.30am

Peacock Theatre

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School Registration

Wednesday 26 September

12noon – 1pm

Hong Kong Theatre

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Department Welcome With Ken Lee

Friday 28 September

10 – 11am

Old Theatre

1

Welcome Meeting

Friday 28 September

11.30am – 12.30pm

Old Theatre

1

Welcome Reception

Friday 28 September

12.30 – 2pm

Shaw Library

1

Student Community Talk

Friday 28 September

2 – 3pm

Old Theatre

1

Job Search Strategies

Friday 28 September

3 – 4pm

Old Theatre

1

AC480 First Week Course Quantitative Methods in Accounting and Finance

Saturday 29 September – Sunday 7 October

See Timetable

Various

1

INSIGHTS Speaker Series I

Wednesday 3 October

5.30 – 6.30pm

Old Theatre

1

INSIGHTS Speaker Series I Reception

Wednesday 3 October

6.30pm

SCR

2

Meet with Ken Sessions

w/c 8 October

TBC

TBC

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Graduate Weekend Trip

Saturday 20 – Sunday 21 October

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Careers: Interview Practice

Thursday 1 November

9.30 – 11am

TBC

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INSIGHTS Speaker Series II

Monday 5 November

5.30 – 6.30pm

Sheikh Zayed Theatre

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INSIGHTS Speaker Series II Reception

Monday 5 November

6.30pm

NAB LG

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Alumni Speed Networking Evening

Thursday 22 November

6 – 8.30pm

OLD 3.21

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Christmas Student Reception

Tuesday 4 December

5.30 – 7.30pm

Senior Dining Room

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INSIGHTS Speaker Series III

Wednesday 12 December

5.30 – 6.30pm

Sheikh Zayed Theatre

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INSIGHTS Speaker Series III Reception

Wednesday 12 December

6.30pm

NAB LG

Key Lent Term Activities will be posted on Moodle from October 2018.

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themes and core principles. You can then select from a combination of optional full and half unit courses in specific areas of accounting and finance to fit your interests and preferred specialisation. Options from outside the two Departments are also available.

Course Selection You must successfully complete the equivalent of four full-unit courses to meet the requirements of the MSc Accounting and Finance programme. Results from each of the full-unit courses carry proportionate and equal weight in the final assessment of the degree. Compulsory core courses in accounting and finance provide the foundation for developing an understanding of a variety of topics,

Please refer to the programme regulations page for full and up to date information regarding the course choices available to you lse.ac.uk/calendar

Paper

Course number and title

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FM430

Corporate Finance and Asset Markets or

FM429

Asset Markets A (H) and FM431M Corporate Finance A (H) or FM431L Corporate Finance A (H)

AC444

Valuation and Security Analysis (H)

AC470

Accounting in the Global Economy (H)

Or another approved paper *

FM402

Financial Risk Analysis (H) )

FM404

Forecasting Financial Time Series (H) **

FM412

Quantitative Security Analysis (H)

FM413

Fixed Income Markets (H)

FM421

Applied Corporate Finance (H)

FM441

Derivatives (H)

FM442

Quantitative Methods for Finance and Risk Analysis (H) **

FM445

Portfolio Management (H)

FM447

Global Financial Systems (H)

FM472

International Finance (H)

FM476

Entrepreneurial Finance (H)

GY462

Real Estate Finance (H)

LL4BK

Corporate Crime (H)

LL4BL

Financial Crime (H)

MG4D5

Leadership in Organisations: Theory and Practice (H)

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AC411

AC415

AC411

Topics in Financial Reporting (H) # and AC417 Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations (H) or Accounting, Strategy and Control (H) and AC416 Topics in Financial Reporting (H) # or Management Accounting for Decision Making (H) and AC416 Topics in Financial Reporting (H) # or Accounting, Strategy and Control (H) and AC415 Management Accounting for Decision Making (H)

Students should select remaining papers to the value of two full units: AC411

Accounting, Strategy and Control (H) (if not taken under Paper 2)

AC412

Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (H)

AC415

Management Accounting for Decision Making (H) (if not taken under Paper 2)

AC416

Topics in Financial Reporting (H) (if not taken under Paper 2) #

AC417

Course number and title

3 and 4 Continued

Students should select two papers to the value of one full unit: AC416

3 and 4

Paper

Any other course * Students can also take a dissertation in either accounting or finance (students cannot take two dissertations):

Corporate Financial Disclosure and Investor Relations (H) (if not taken under Paper 2)

AC499

Dissertation

Notes: Students may elect to have their degree specialisation indicated on their degree certificate. Students who take both AC470 and FM472 as Paper 3 may choose to have MSc Accounting and Finance: International Accounting and Finance on their certificate. Students who take two half units of AC411 or AC415 or AC416 or AC417 as Paper 3 may choose to have MSc Accounting and Finance: Accounting and Financial Management on their certificate. Students taking finance courses to the equivalent of two full units as Papers 3 and 4 may choose to have MSc Accounting and Finance: Finance on their certificate. * Means by special permission only. ** Students taking this course can apply for a place on FM457 Applied Computational Finance, a non-assessed computer course. # AC480 Quantitative Methods in Accounting and Finance is a pre-requisite for this course. AC480 runs over a 9-day period before the start of MT. 9

Course Selection and Timetables • You will also be given the opportunity to enter a supporting

Your programme comprises a number of courses, which are usually worth half (0.5) or a full (1.0) unit. The number of courses you will take each years varies by programme but can be found at lse.ac.uk/ calendar. You will need to select all of your courses, including any compulsory ones, in LSE for You.

statement in support of your overall course choices. You are strongly recommended to complete this if your selection falls outside the regulations for your programme.

• You will be returned to the “Graduate Course Choice – Student”

How to select your courses

summary page and automatically registered for any noncontrolled access courses and any controlled access courses that are compulsory for your programme.

1. Find the courses you’d like to take Go to lse.ac.uk/findcourses to access the tools and information to help you decide which courses you want to take this academic year. Make sure that you identify a few back-up courses in case your first choice is not available. You should make sure that you attend any departmental course selection meetings and seek advice from your Academic Mentor or Supervisor before finalising your course selections.

• Wait for any requests to take controlled access courses to be considered by the teaching department(s). You will be notified at your LSE email when they make a decision. If you are offered a place act quickly because the offer will expire after 48 hours

3. Check your timetable and Moodle enrolments Lectures will appear on your timetable as soon as you have successfully registered for the course. Some departments allocate students to seminars, and some departments allow students to sign up for seminars themselves. You can see which method is used for each of your courses in the Seminar Sign Up system in LSE for You. You will only be able to access Seminar Sign Up for a particular course once you have successfully registered for the course and once the department has made the course available for Seminar Sign Up.

The LSE calendar is the place to check for programme regulations detailing which courses you are permitted to take. It also provides course guides for every course at LSE, including student feedback. You can find the calendar online at lse.ac.uk/calendar. LSE Course Finder is a tool to help you choose which courses to take within your programme regulations. Course Finder allows you to browse available courses by unit value, keyword, department and assessment type. You can build a shortlist of courses and compare the lecture timetables for that shortlist. Course Finder is available from late August. You may also with to look at course content on Moodle and check the teaching timetable to detect potential classes.

You will automatically be given access to the Moodle page for your c...