MSc International Accounting and Finance
Welcome to the MSc International Accounting and Finance course.
We hope you are looking forward to starting your Masters degree at the University of Stirling Management School. We welcome you to our beautiful campus.
We welcome you to the Stirling Management School (SMS) community and look forward to meeting you when you begin your studies in February. Teaching on your course begins on 1 February 2020 with the Flying Start Leadership Programme when you will engage in a range of activities designed to ensure your transition into University life is smooth, enjoyable, stimulating and stress free.
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Stirling Management School welcome meeting You are invited to attend the School-wide welcome meeting, where you will be introduced to the School's staff and one another! We look forward to seeing you all there. |
Monday 1 February 2021 10:00 - 12:00 |
Online via Microsoft Teams |
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Welcome to your course Meet the Course Director, Dr Patrick Herbst, and staff teaching on your course as well as the Professional Services staff. This session will introduce you to your course, what you can expect from us and our expectations of you. It will help you to settle into university life and as well as guide you as to ‘how things work around here’. |
Monday 1 February 2021 14:00 - 16:00 |
Online via Microsoft Teams |
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Flying Start Leadership programme Your Flying Start Leadership Programme activities will take place during the week commencing 1 February. Your individual schedule will be available to you at a later date. |
Week commencing 1 February 2021 | TBC |
Got a question?
If you have any questions about the course, please contact the Programme Administrator, Allison Butler, who will be happy to answer any questions or queries you may have.
Course director
Reading list
We want to help you prepare for your
Suggested Preliminary Reading – Spring 2021
For those of you interested in doing some early reading, below are a few suggestions spanning different areas of Accounting and Finance. Some of these recommendations are more general popular science style than others (or even proper fiction). The second part of the list contains some readings for your first semester modules. All recommendations at this stage or just that – recommendations, and you are not expected to do any advance reading.
- Six Capitals, Or Can Accountants Save the Planet?
Jane Gleeson-White
Norton Books, New York, 2014 - Irrational Exuberance: Revised and Expanded Third Edition
Robert J. Shiller
Princeton University Press, 2016 - The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
Mervyn King
Little, Brown, 2016 - Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?
John Kay
Profile Books Ltd, 2015 - Investment Management (2nd edition)
Stephen Lofthouse
John Wiley & Sons, 2001 - A Random Walk Down Wall Street (latest, eleventh, or earlier edition)
Burton K Malkiel
WW Norton & Co, 2012 - Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
Peter L. Bernstein
The Free Press, 1993 - The Fear Index (novel)
Robert Harris
Arrow Books, 2012 - Reading and Understanding the Financial Times (2nd edition)
Kevin Boakes
Prentice Hall Financial Times, 2010
Module Texts
These are recommended texts for three of the first semester modules. Once the semester starts and the readings are confirmed, it is highly recommended you ensure you have (access to) these books and follow the required and recommended readings in the module.
INVP001
Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance (Fourth European Edition)
David Hillier, Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford Jordan
McGraw-Hill International Edition, 2021
INVP002
Financial Reporting
Global Financial Accounting and Reporting: Principles and Analysis
Aerts W. and Walton, PJ.
Cengage Learning EMEA, (latest edition)
Financial Accounting and Reporting: A Global Perspective
Lebas, J.M., Stolowy, H., and Ding., Y.
Cengage Learning, (latest edition)
BFIP013
Quantitative Methods in Finance
Applied Econometrics
Dimitrios Asteriou and Stephen G. Hall
Palgrave, Macmillan Publishers Ltd
4th Edition 2019