MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (ACCOUNTING OPTION)

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (ACCOUNTING OPTION)

Are you looking to develop your Accountancy knowledge while you work full-time? Our Master in Business Administration (Accounting Option) will equip you with a broader understanding of accounting to help you gain confidence in any accountancy role in the industry. Applications are now open for weekend, evening, and day.

 

The Accounting specialization is crafted to provide accountancy career-focused students with the knowledge, theory, and practice of the modern business world to enhance decision-making and careers. This is done by developing the student’s administrative and competency skills necessary to effectively lead organizations in the 21st century. This course will emphasize the theory and practical skills associated with assessing modern financial reporting. It will explore the relationship of accounting to other business functions and consider the challenges faced by organizations. Working within an organization offers some benefits including the opportunity for accountants to work on official earnings statements, quarterly results, and much more.

 

 

To the extent that students who opt for the accounting specialization are usually practicing accountants with vast industrial experience, the programme seeks to sharpen their minds to prepare them for future managerial assignments by exposing them to other functional areas of management including financial management, Accounting, human resource management, and operations. In the first year of the programme, students study carefully selected courses calculated to make them well-equipped with the requisite knowledge that makes them fit for every managerial position that comes their way after the programme. In the second year, of this specialization, students will learn Taxation, Corporate Reporting, Management Accounting, Accounting Theory, and Public Sector Accounting as well as Audit and Assurance Services which are critical in modern accounting.

 

The goals and objectives of the MBA Accounting Option programme are:

  1. To address the academic deficiency of professional accountants to make them more effective in decision-making roles
  2. To broaden the knowledge of graduates with the theoretical and empirical basis of accountancy missing in professional accountancy education.
  3. To develop the soft skills of professional accountants required for research in the accounting and finance domain.
  4. To prepare students to obtain full exemptions for all papers up to the Application Level and, in this way, complete the final stage of the professional examinations in good time.

 

Admission requirement for students to enroll on the MBA Accounting programme is at least Second Class (Lower Division) in BSc. Administration (Accounting Option) or equivalent accounting degree from a recognized institution. Applicants must in addition have a thorough proficiency in written and spoken English. Candidates must demonstrate their ability to pay required fees and pass an entry examination to be conducted by KNUST School of Business. 

 

YEAR ONE

SEMESTER ONE

COURSE CODE

COURSE TITLE (CREDIT HOURS)

 

FACULTY CORE

ACF 551

Accounting for Managers (3 Credits)

ISD 551

Quantitative Analysis (3 Credits)

ACF 553

Managerial Economics (3 Credits)

MAS 553

Human Resource Management (3 Credits)

MAS 561

Leadership & Organizational Behaviour (3 Credits)

 

 

 

 

 

YEAR ONE                    SEMESTER TWO

 

COURSE CODE            COURSE TITLE (CREDIT HOURS)

 

                                         FACULTY CORE

 

MCS 552                          Marketing Management & Strategy (3 Credits)

 

ACF 554                          Corporate Finance (3 Credits)

 

ISD 556                            MIS & E-Business (3 Credits)

 

MCS 676                          Strategic Management & Policy (3 Credits)

 

MAS 561                         Leadership & Organizational Behaviour (3 Credits)

 

 

 

YEAR TWO

SEMESTER ONE

COURSE CODE

COURSE TITLE (CREDIT HOURS)

 

FACULTY CORE

MAS 651

Business Law & Ethics (3 Credits)

MCS 601

Thesis (3 Credits)

ISD 554

Business Research Methods (3 Credits)

 

ELECTIVES

ACF 655

Accounting Theory (3 Credits)

ACF 653

Taxation and Business Strategy (3 Credits)

ACF 657

Management Accounting (3 Credits)

 

 

 

YEAR TWO

SEMESTER TWO

COURSE CODE

COURSE TITLE (CREDIT HOURS)

 

FACULTY CORE

MCS 601

Thesis (3 Credits)

MCS 651

Entrepreneurship & Small Business (3 Credits) Management

 

ELECTIVES

ACF 652

Auditing & Assurance (3 Credits)

ACF 654

Corporate Financial Reporting and Analysis (3 Credits)

ACC 558

Public Sector Accounting (3 Credits)

 

 

 

 

All Master of Business Administration students undertake a six (6) credit hour research project that leads to a submitted thesis report that is orally defended by the student.

 

Teaching methods include but are not limited to Face to face-to-face lectures, hands-on Problem-Based Learning (PBL) techniques, case study illustrations, and practice-oriented virtual exercises using the KNUST Learning Management System (LMS) called the Virtual Classroom. Seminars/Workshops, Audio-visual/Poster presentation.

 

A critical observation of advertisements in job vacancies in the media reveals that many of the job vacancies are in the areas of Accounting and Finance. Currently most businesses are in search for well-trained top management personnel to manage their finances.