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  • ‘Accounting and Legal Support of Business’

    • Full-time
    • 2 years
    • RU
    • 360 000 RUB
  • Entrance exams

    • Economic Theory
    • Foreign language (English, Chinese, German, French, Spanish)

Program description

This program trains specialists who can create an informational image of the company, which largely determines its success. The program is aimed to develop the skills of forming financial statements according to Russian and international standards based on knowledge of legal business support and the use of digital technologies. The ability to create information is either a necessary education for any financier, analyst, business manager and investor, or a creative profession of a designer of financial and non-financial information. You will master the modern methodology of financial reporting, gain the skills of making professional judgments, understanding the accounting language that turns real actions and things into a virtual picture, as well as understand the legal issues of enterprises.

Accreditation and Partners

Program managers

Shneidman Leonid Zinovievich

  • Doctor of Economics, Professor.
  • Specialist in accounting, financial reporting and auditing regulation, Department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

Rozhnova Olga Vladimirovna

  • Doctor of Economics, Professor.
  • Specialist in finance, financial accounting, economic analysis, IFRS; awarded the Soros Prize for the IFRS program; certified accountant-practitioner in IFRS, has a diploma of the CAP. 
  • Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation.

Upon completion of the program, graduates will be able to

  • Manage the formation of accounting statements in the formats of the Russian Accounting System and International Financial Reporting Standards.
  • Transform financial statements from the format of the Russian accounting system into the format of International Financial Reporting Standards.
  • Deeply understand the transformation issues of financial, economic, non-financial, legal information (including predictive and probabilistic information about business activities) into its informational image, which increases the business reputation of the enterprise.
  • Identify creative and new directions for the development of the enterprise accounting and reporting system, develop their own innovative proposals for the development of this system.
  • Make professional judgments: on the choice of accounting policies (principles, methods and accounting models), estimated values, structuring of disclosures, calculate the consequences of accounting and financial decisions.
  • Manage the accounting and reporting system of the enterprise, effectively organize accounting processes, initiate the introduction of digitalization in the information field of the enterprise.

Key disciplines of the concentration

Financial Accounting (Advanced Level)

One of the fundamental disciplines in the accounting and auditing system, where students study the features of accounting for fixed assets, intangible assets and R&D expenses, stocks, products, cash, current liabilities, settlements, etc. Graduate students obtain knowledge of Federal Accounting Standards.

Accounting and Financial Reporting in Certain Areas of the Economy

You will learn how to evaluate the features of accounting and disclosure of information in accounting statements in organizations related to various fields of activity, including budget organizations, knowledge of industry accounting standards is the basis of this discipline.

Contract Law

Modern civil legislation regulating contractual relations, interpretation, and application of legislation on the conclusion, execution and termination of civil law contracts related to the accounting sphere.

International Financial Reporting Standards (Advanced Course)

Today, understanding the principles of forming an information image of an organization and the methodology of forming financial statements according to the standards by which the whole world works is extremely relevant. A deep understanding of the laws of accounting and information reflection to create a truthful virtual picture corresponding to reality, familiarity with the methodology of making professional judgments is what this discipline provides

Consolidation and Transformation of Financial Statements

This discipline allows you to master the methods of accounting for mergers and acquisitions in companies, also the transformation methods of companies’ financial statements with switch of accounting standards’ types, using the example of the transition from Russian standards to international ones.

Tax Law

Students will know more about tax legal relations, their structure, objects, the tax system of the Russian Federation, taxes, and the procedure for determining them; the legal basis of tax control; ways to protect the rights of taxpayers.

Career

Career development of the master’s degree program graduates is associated with professional activity as deputy chief accountant, chief accountant, accountant, auditor, specialist of analytical and financial services, financial director of economic entities, as well as ministry departments. Alumni of the master’s degree program are in demand by Russian and international organizations of various industries and forms of ownership.

Organizations where you can find a job

Unique advantages of the program

The double-degree program with foreign partner universities – Anglia Ruskin University (UK) and Grenoble Alpes University (France) and considers the requirements and best practices of domestic and leading foreign universities.

The practical focus of training and the participation of practitioners in conducting workshops and business training as part of the educational process. ACCA, Unicon JSC and the Russian largest companies take part in the formation of the content of academic disciplines and case studies.

Accreditation by the ACCA international professional organization. Graduates receive an exemption from passing the ACCA F1-F3 and F7 qualification exams. Students of the program enjoy the information support of ACCA.

The faculty of the Department provides the highest level of education that meets the most modern quality standards.

Also students can work with systems and professional software products: Bloomberg Professional, SPARK, Audit Expert, Project Expert; 1C information products.