This module aims to demonstrate organisational leadership and senior consultancy or advisory capabilities and relevant professional skills, through the context of an integrated case study. The module combines the main functions of organisations in the context of leadership capability, governance, internal audit, control, risk, finance, ethics and management. The module also focuses on innovation, performance excellence and change management to enable organisational success and implement change through effective organisational processes, IT solutions and project management, including the role of new and disruptive technologies in transforming the nature of business analysis and transactions. The module also covers a range of professional and employability skills. The following GAME+ attributes are included in this module: Influence and impact, professional identity and skills mastery.

This module directly precedes the dissertation and will enable you to develop a research proposal, a more fully developed version of which will form the first three chapters of your dissertation. You will develop feasible research objectives and an understanding of the research context (towards Chapter One of your dissertation); an appropriate conceptual/analytical framework to analyse your data following a critical review of the appropriate literature (towards chapter Two of your dissertation). This module will allow you to make informed decisions about which research philosophies, strategies and methods are suitable for your research. The subjects of triangulation, reliability, validity and research ethics will be explored and a combination of methods to form a critically robust research design (towards Chapter Three of your dissertation) will emerge. The following GAME+ attributes are included in this module: Critical self management and skills mastery.

This module provides students with an opportunity to undertake an extended and substantial piece of research.The dissertation is an extension of the taught Research Methods module. The proposal, methodology, conceptual framework, and the literature review developed in the research methods module are a prerequisite for the dissertation. It allows students to synthesise their academic knowledge acquired from the taught MSc modules and produce an evaluative and critical discussion of an Accountancy or Financial Management related issue. The module aims to enable students to acquire and demonstrate a high level of autonomy in the critical appropriation and utilisation of knowledge derived from diverse sources to underpin their own professional development. It also aims to help students to develop their abilities in: Identifying a problem, establishing its significance, formulating a hypothesis/proposition, designing means of testing hypothesis, and evaluating the results. The module specification for the dissertation is the same for all the Masters programmes offered by the School. However, the dissertation topic chosen by the students must be directly related to their Programme of study. The following GAME+ attributes are included in this module : Influence and impact, critical self management, creativity and innovation and skills mastery.