MRes/PhD in Accounting (AOI) (Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Track)

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In addition to progressing with their research, students are expected to take the listed training and transferable skills courses. Students may take courses in addition to those listed, and should discuss this with their supervisor.

Programme Structure - MRes

Programme code: TMRESAC1

Department: Accounting

For students starting this programme of study in 2020/21

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (five units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and can be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.

Year 1
Training courses	Compulsory (examined):
Paper 1	AC502 Foundations of Accounting, Organizations and Institutions (0.5)
	and
	MY500 Fundamentals of Social Science Research Design (0.5)
Paper 2	MY551 Introduction to Quantitative Analysis (0.5)
	and one of the following 0.5 unit(s):
	MY521 Qualitative Research Methods (0.5) or
	MY526 Doing Ethnography (0.5) ^# (not available 2020/21) or
	MY528 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) ^#
	Depending on previous methods training students have undertaken, they are allowed to replace one or all of the required methods courses listed under Paper 2 with more advanced methods courses. Should a student, for instance, have had previous training in quantitative methods to the level taught in MY551, the student will be asked to replace that course with a more advanced course in quantitative methods, such as MY552 (Applied Regression Analysis).
Paper 3	Courses to the value of 1.0 unit from the following:
	AC411 Accounting, Strategy and Control (0.5)
	AC470 Accounting in the Global Economy (0.5) ^#
	EH428 History of Economics: Making Political Economy into a Social Science (0.5) (not available 2020/21)
	EH429 History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity (0.5)
	EH430 Monetary and Financial History (1.0) ^#
	EH463 The Long-Run Analysis of Firms and Industries (0.5)
	SO469 Risk and Governance: A Sociological Approach (0.5) (withdrawn 2020/21)
	SO470 The Sociology of Markets (0.5)
	Any other graduate or research-level course available in the School with permission from the lead supervisor and doctoral programme director.
Training Courses	Compulsory (not examined):
	AC500 Topics in Accounting Research (AOI) (0.0)
	examined in Year 2 of the MRes (as AC504)
Training Courses	Optional (not examined):
	MY591 Computing Packages for Applied Analysis (0.0) (withdrawn 2020/21)
Transferable skills	Compulsory (not examined):
	Department of Accounting Research Forums (ARF's) Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Research Seminars and Workshops

Year 2
Training Courses	Compulsory (examined):
Paper 4	AC504 Topics in Accounting Research (AOI) (1.0)
Paper 5	AC599 Research Paper in Accounting (1.0) (not available 2020/21)
	*The AC599 Research Paper must be 6000-8000 words in length
Paper 6	Courses to the value of 1.0 units in relevant fields, including more specialised methods training, if not taken above, such as:
	MY526 Doing Ethnography (0.5) ^# (not available 2020/21) or
	MY527 Qualitative Research with Digital and Visual Data (0.5) ^# (not available 2020/21) or
	MY528 Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis (0.5) ^#
	Any other graduate or research-level course available in the School with permission form the lead supervisor and doctoral programme director.
Transferable skills	Compulsory (not examined):
	AC507 Accounting Work in Progress Seminars (0.0) (not available 2020/21)
	*AC507 Presentation requirements: AOI/EoA joint seminars. Students are required to present their work in progress within AC507 (Seminar in Accounting) in the second year. ^A
	Department of Accounting Research Forums (ARF's): Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Research Seminars and Workshops

Footnotes

A : Progression to the PhD if the above MRes requirements are met:

For progression to PhD registration, students are required to achieve marks of 50% or higher in Papers 1, 2, and 3, marks of 60% or higher in Paper 6 (50% or higher if Paper 6 is an MRes/PhD research course in another department, e.g. Finance or Economics) and marks of 65% or higher in Papers 4 and 5.

Students missing the progression requirement are required to pass those papers to the necessary standard before PhD registration can be permitted. Students can only re-sit each paper once. We expect students to re-sit failed papers in the same year that they failed the paper(s), so that decisions on continued/discontinued registration can be made before the next academic year commences.

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Award of the MRes

The award and classification of the MRes degree is consistent with the School's Scheme for the Award of a five-unit Taught Master's Degree.

The mark of Paper 5 (Research paper) and the highest marks to the value of 4 course units out of the remaining 5 course units taken will be used to determine the degree classification. Students are required to achieve a pass mark of 50% in Paper 5 (Research paper). A fail in one of the remaining four marks used for classification (but not a bad fail of 29% or less) can be compensated by a mark of 60% or higher in another paper, or an aggregate mark of 440 in the non-failed papers. If compensated, a fail shall result in a drop in the overall award classification where a Distinction or Merit would otherwise have been awarded. It shall have no further impact where a Pass is to be awarded.

An award cannot be made where the student receives a bad fail in any mark, even if it is not being used for the calculation of an award. Where a student receives a bad Fail mark they must resit on one occasion only in order to be considered as eligible for award of the degree.

Programme Structure - PhD

Programme code: RPAC3

From Year 3 onwards (if upgraded to PhD)



Training courses	Compulsory (not examined):
	AC500 Topics in Accounting Research (AOI) (0.0)
	examined in Year 2 of the MRes (as AC504)
Transferable skills	Compulsory (not examined):
	AC507 Accounting Work in Progress Seminars (0.0) (not available 2020/21)
	Department of Accounting Research Forums (ARFs) Accounting, Organisations and Institutions Research Seminars and Workshops *AC507 Presentation requirements: AOI/EoA joint seminars. Students are required to present their work in progress within AC507 (Seminar in Accounting) in each of the years of their degree, starting in year 2.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.