MSc Corporate Governance

Course details

Core units

Corporate Governance & Ethics: The objectives, principles and methods of Corporate Governance practice in different economic environments. You'll show how governance and ethics can support managerial decision-making, particularly for risk management.
Corporate Stewardship: Illustrating the fundamental concepts in the protection of intellectual property rights, this unit will provide an understanding of the role of company secretary in the effective administration of organisations while covering key issues risk management.
International Corporate Finance: The aims of this unit are to address the importance of the corporate finance function in an internationally diverse corporation and to offer a framework for assisting corporate decision-makers in a complex, dynamic and inherently uncertain external environment.
Research Project: The research project provides Master’s level students with an opportunity to undertake a significant piece of self-managed research in an area that interests you and is relevant to the course.
Corporate Management & Control: You'll be exposed to legal principles and specific areas of legislation affecting business transactions and internal financial control, enabling you to merge theory and practice in applying the concepts of corporate and business strategy.
Corporate Law - Theory & Practice: In this unit, you will gain an understanding of contemporary corporate law, evaluating key issues from theoretical and practical perspectives.
Financial Reporting & Analysis: Learn the main principles and techniques involved in the production and operation of financial statements and the analysis of corporate financial reporting.

Assessment methods and programme specification

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Your application

What we’re looking for

For Corporate Governance we are looking for applicants who:

Have an appreciation of corporate affairs
Can provide details of relevant work experience
Aspire to work within company secretarial, finance functions and senior management roles.

This course will suit people looking to move into an administrative, management role or aspiring to run their own business. Students will have a good understanding of all areas of business and will develop their knowledge using excellent research skills.

Selection methods

Entry requirements

General entry requirements

International students

You can find details of the international qualifications we accept, and what level of study they apply to, on our entry requirements for non-UK students' page.

Please see below some examples of the qualifications for entry:

China: 学士学位 (Bachelor degree) with a minimum of 65% overall
Nigeria: Bachelor's degree from a recognised institution in Nigeria
Thailand: Thai Bachelor's (Honours) degree from a recognised higher education institution.
Vietnam: Bachelor's degree/Bang tot nghiep dai hoc with an average score of at least 7.0, or a Master’s degree/Thac si.
Turkey: Bachelor’s Degree (Lisans Diplomasi -four years) to be considered for a postgraduate course at BU.

All applications will be subject to a minimum grade and your degree may need to be in a relevant subject area.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language, you will need to provide evidence that you understand English to a satisfactory level. English language requirements for this course are normally:

IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with minimum 5.5 in each component, or equivalent.

View further information about our English language requirements.

Bournemouth University International College offers a number of pre-sessional English and preparatory programmes to prepare international students for postgraduate study at BU. Admission to the degree is guaranteed on successful completion of your course to the required level.

Careers

The majority of career opportunities will lie within the company secretarial and finance functions, but the programme will also be invaluable to any aspiring senior manager or for those running their own company.

Typical starting job roles

Industries worked in

Further study

Course changes

Changes for 2019 Entry

Date	Changes to this course
01/05/2019	Where the change was made: course overview and course content Change: Following a course review the course unit content has been revised and updated for September 2019 onwards. Previous text: International Accounting & Analysis: This unit covers the main principles involved in the production of financial statements, outlines the theoretical and regulatory framework that financial accounting operates in and offers techniques for analysing corporate financial reporting. Corporate Law - Theory & Practice: Examining key issues in contemporary corporate law, you'll evaluate these from theoretical and practical perspectives. Corporate Management & Control: You'll be exposed to legal principles and specific areas of legislation affecting business transactions, which will allow you to merge theoretical and practical knowledge and use the corporate and business strategy. Corporate Stewardship: Gain a thorough understanding of the role of the company secretary in the effective administration of organisations. You'll be exposed to key issues in risk management. Corporate Governance & Ethics: The objectives, principles and methods of Corporate Governance practice in different economic environments. You'll show how governance and ethics can support managerial decision-making, particularly for risk management. International Corporate Finance: The primary aims of this unit are to address the critical importance of the corporate finance function within an internationally diverse corporation and to provide a framework to assist corporate decision-makers in a complex, dynamic and inherently uncertain external environment. Research Project: An opportunity to complete a significant piece of self-managed research in area that interests you.

Date

Changes to this course

01/05/2019

Where the change was made: course overview and course content
Change: Following a course review the course unit content has been revised and updated for September 2019 onwards.
Previous text:

International Accounting & Analysis: This unit covers the main principles involved in the production of financial statements, outlines the theoretical and regulatory framework that financial accounting operates in and offers techniques for analysing corporate financial reporting.
Corporate Law - Theory & Practice: Examining key issues in contemporary corporate law, you'll evaluate these from theoretical and practical perspectives.
Corporate Management & Control: You'll be exposed to legal principles and specific areas of legislation affecting business transactions, which will allow you to merge theoretical and practical knowledge and use the corporate and business strategy.
Corporate Stewardship: Gain a thorough understanding of the role of the company secretary in the effective administration of organisations. You'll be exposed to key issues in risk management.
Corporate Governance & Ethics: The objectives, principles and methods of Corporate Governance practice in different economic environments. You'll show how governance and ethics can support managerial decision-making, particularly for risk management.
International Corporate Finance: The primary aims of this unit are to address the critical importance of the corporate finance function within an internationally diverse corporation and to provide a framework to assist corporate decision-makers in a complex, dynamic and inherently uncertain external environment.
Research Project: An opportunity to complete a significant piece of self-managed research in area that interests you.

Our staff

On this course you will be taught by staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This could include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners and research students, many of whom are actively engaged in research and/or professional practice which is integrated into the teaching of this course. Please note that teaching staff can change.

Dr Tony Abdoush

Tony is a Senior Lecturer and joined BU in 2017 as a Lecturer in Accounting and Finance. Before that, Tony worked as a Visiting Academic/ Adjunct Lecturer (University of Southampton), an Associate Lecturer (Damascus University), and had 5-year work experience as a Chief Accountant.

Tony’s current research interests lie around Corporate Governance, Accountability and Corporate Disclosure, Sustainable Development & Corporate Social Responsibility, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Corporate Finance, Insurance, and Risk Management.

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Roger Fox - Lecturer

Roger is a Chartered Management Accountant and was elected a Fellow of the institute in 1993. Beginning his career in Management Accounting, Roger “cut his teeth” in the Midlands heavy engineering industry gaining down to earth costing experience before moving to work as a Corporate Analyst in the City of London.

As a Corporate Analyst with the British American Tobacco Group, he was involved in appraising new business developments within the UK. This was at an exciting time when borrowing rates were high, and Discounted Cash Flow was a comparatively new technique.

Roger subsequently worked in the oil business ( Gulf Oil ) as a Financial Analyst, where he gained managerial experience in addition to project management and on-site audits

In more recent years Roger pursued his career in Financial Services, which began with a position with Crown Life of Canada as Management Accountant and ended with American Life, where he was Financial Controller of a company with £1bn of premium income.

For the last 25 years, Roger had forsaken his corporate managerial role in favour of building his own accounting and training practice.

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Dr Hany Elbardan - Senior Lecturer

Hany has a PhD in accounting (Brunel University), MSc and BSc (Hons) in accounting (Alexandria University). He is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance in the Business School within Bournemouth University. In addition to his university work, he acted as a consultant at GHEM consultants, UK (2015-2017).

His research interests include accounting, accounting information systems, ERP systems, internal and external auditing, internal control, risk management, managerial accounting and Corporate Governance. He has published his research in refereed international journals such as Information Systems Management, Journal of Enterprise Information Management and Journal of applied accounting research. Hany is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration, Journal of Organizational Studies and Innovation and Organisational Studies and Innovation Review.

Hany teaches in a broad spectrum of both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as Executive MBA and PhD supervision. His teaching areas include financial accounting, accounting theory and practice, managerial accounting, auditing, environmental accounting and reporting and accounting information systems (ERP, Sage50).

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Frazer Ball - Senior Lecturer

Frazer is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Accounting, Finance & Economics, within the Bournemouth University Business School. Having graduated from BU with a BA (Hons) in Accounting, Frazer specialised in IT before becoming an academic member of staff. Having gained an MSc. in Finance & Risk Management, Frazer now specialises in Risk Management/Disaster Planning and is a Technical Specialist member of the Institute of Risk Management. Frazer is currently undertaking a PhD in Finance, focusing on Portfolio Management, with a particular focus on Bloodstock.

Frazer’s primary research interests lie in the multi-disciplinary aspects of large scale renewable energy projects and has several co-created publications in this area.

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Spencer Barnett - Lecturer

Spencer graduated from Bournemouth University in 2003 with a first-class honours degree in Accounting & Finance and have subsequently qualified as a chartered accountant.

Before starting at BU in 2000, he was an equity analyst and arbitrageur at a major European investment bank.

Spencer’s research interests lie within the field of equity arbitrage, particularly surrounding mergers and acquisitions.

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International students

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Further study

Course changes

Changes for 2019 Entry

Our staff

Dr Tony Abdoush

Roger Fox - Lecturer

Dr Hany Elbardan - Senior Lecturer

Frazer Ball - Senior Lecturer

Spencer Barnett - Lecturer

What our students say

Diana Giuliana

Hear from our staff

Professor Steve Letza

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Planning your future

Course details

Core units

Assessment methods and programme specification

Your application

What we’re looking for

Selection methods

Entry requirements

General entry requirements

International students

Careers

Typical starting job roles

Industries worked in

Further study

Course changes

Changes for 2019 Entry

Our staff

Dr Tony Abdoush

Roger Fox - Lecturer

Dr Hany Elbardan - Senior Lecturer

Frazer Ball - Senior Lecturer

Spencer Barnett - Lecturer

What our students say

Diana Giuliana

Hear from our staff

Professor Steve Letza