MSc Law and Accounting

Full-year programme. Students must take four courses one of which will be examined in part by dissertation. The Core course will be examined by Long Essay due by 21 August and a two-hour exam in May/June. Examinations in other courses may be in May/June or August/September depending on the regulations under which those courses fall.

Paper

Course number and title

1

LL440 

Corporate Accountability: Topics in Legal and Accounting Regulation *

2

AC420

Financial Reporting in Capital Markets ‡ or

AC464

Management Accounting and Financial Accounting: Decisions, Control, Reporting and Disclosure †

3

LL406

Introduction to Regulation (H)

LL407

Media and Communications Regulation (H)

LL437

Law of Corporate Finance 

LL439

Insolvency Law: Principles and Policy

LL446

Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects

LL455

International Tax Systems

LL484

Regulation of Financial Markets

LL491

Taxation of Corporate Transactions

LL494

Value Added Tax 

LL4B9

Corporate and Financial Crime

LL4C1

Innovation, Technology and Patent Law (n/a 11/12)

LL4D1

Trademark Law (n/a 11/12)

LL4D5

Legal Risk in Financial Markets (H)

LL4D7

Law of Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in Europe and the United States

 

LL4F2

Law and Practice of International Finance (H)

LL4F3

Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructurings in Europe (H)+

LL4F4

Takeover Regulation in the UK and the US (H)

LL4H4

Financial Law (H)

LL4H8

Employment Law (H)

LL4H9

Human Rights in the Workplace (H)

LL4S1

Cyberlaw (H)

LL4S2

E-Commerce Law (H)

LL4S5

Piracy, Content and Ownership in the Information Society (H) (n/a 11/12)

LL4Z1

Business Taxation (H)

LL4Z2

Principles of Taxation (H)

LL4Z3

Consumption Taxes (H)

LL4Z4

Value Added Tax in the European Context (H)

 

Any other LLM course from those offered at LSE subject to approval

4

Any of the courses listed in 3 above for which the student is eligible and has not already taken, or one of the following (or two half units) with approval:

 

AC410

Management Accounting, Strategy and Organizational Control

AC411

Accounting, Strategy and Control (H)

AC412

Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management (H)

AC444

Valuation and Securities Analysis (H)

AC470

Accounting in the Global Economy (H)

FM430

Corporate Finance and Asset Markets

 

An LSE LLM or MSc course not listed here §

Notes

* To be examined by 10,000-word Long Essay and a two-hour examination.
‡ Prior knowledge of accounting needed.
† For those without prior knowledge of accounting.
§ means by special permission only.

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