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Faculty of Business

Academic Programmes

Curriculum (MAcc)

Curriculum

Students are required to complete 11 modules in one year of study. Each module bears three credits.

Core Courses (Six courses):

  1. ACT501 Auditing
  2. ACT502 Business and Company Law
  3. ACT503 Cost and Management Accounting
  4. ACT504 Financial Accounting and Reporting
  5. ACT505 Hong Kong Taxation and Tax Planning
  6. ACT506 Managerial Finance

Students completing the first six core courses (18 credits) in the first semester with a cumulative GPA of 2.67 will receive the Postgraduate Diploma in Accountancy (PGDA) intermediate award. The PGDA awardees are eligible to enrol in the Hong Kong Institute of CPAs (HKICPA) Qualification Programme (QP). However, the final admission decision is subject to the approval of the HKICPA.

Elective Courses* (Any five):

  1. ACT601 Accounting Theory
  2. ACT602 Research Project in Accounting
  3. ACT604 China Taxation: An International Perspective
  4. ACT605 Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting
  5. ACT606 Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination
  6. ACT607 Financial Statement Interpretation and Analysis
  7. ACT608 The Economic Law of China
  8. ACT609 Advanced Auditing
  9. ACT610 Accounting Ethics and Corporate Governance
  10. ACT611 Comparative Legal Systems
  11. ACT612 Data Analytics for Accounting
  12. ACT613 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Issues in Business and Accounting
  13. ACT614 Financial Regulatory Environments of Hong Kong and Mainland China
  14. ACT 615 Introduction to Python Programming
  15. ACT 616 International Taxation
  16. ACT 617 Corporate Governance
  17. ACT 618 AI Applications in Business (subject to the University’s approval)
  18. ESG503 Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Accounting and Disclosure
  19. FIN 520 Corporate Finance
  20. FIN 545 Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) Investing and Sustainable Finance
  21. ORM 545 Cloud-based Solutions for Digital Business Transformation
  22. RIM 535 Financial Risk Management

* The offering of elective courses is subject to sufficient demand and faculty availability.