Why choose the Cambridge Executive Master of Accounting?

Executive Master of Accounting
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Executive Master of Accounting
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Overview

Lead the future of accounting and finance alongside a global cohort of senior professionals.

The Cambridge Executive Master of Accounting brings together experienced leaders, award-winning faculty and industry experts to address critical challenges – from cybersecurity and digital transformation, to audit reform and global regulatory change.

Designed for accomplished professionals, the programme combines rigorous, applied learning with the insights of senior peers across industries and geographies.

You will develop the strategic, technical and leadership capabilities to navigate complexity and drive innovation within your organisation.

At Cambridge Judge Business School, you will benefit from a centuries-long tradition of academic excellence while joining a powerful global alumni network recognised for its influence and high standards – opening doors to meaningful collaboration and long-term professional opportunity.

Dr Mike Willis and Professor Alan Jagolinzer.
Dr Mike Willis and Professor Alan Jagolinzer

Today’s organisations need accounting and finance leaders to be exceptional communicators with vision, who can innovate and collaborate, and who can channel data into strategy.

Dr Mike Willis, Programme Director

Designed to train decision-makers

The Cambridge Executive Master of Accounting equips you with the expertise and perspective to operate at the highest levels of financial reporting, assurance and policy influence.

  • Step into elite board, advisory and consultative roles.
  • Steer your organisation through unprecedented technological change.
  • Strengthen your ability to interpret and communicate financial performance.
  • Develop advanced capability in the application and critical evaluation of AI, machine learning and data-driven analytical tools.
  • Work with real-world datasets and contentious case scenarios.
  • Apply your learning in real-time in your current role.
  • Enhance collaboration between finance and data science teams.
  • Improve the reliability, transparency and robustness of audit and reporting processes.
  • Lead the evolution of financial governance in an era of AI and algorithmic decision-making.
  • Invest in and develop people at senior level.

A collaborative global community

Join a collaborative global community in the historic surroundings of Cambridge, and be a part of our proven legacy of excellence. We welcome candidates from every corner of the world onto our 2-year masters degree. Students from Africa, Australia, Middle East, Asia, North America, South America and Europe enjoy the chance to network and collaborate.

Engage with senior professionals

Working with top professionals and government policy makers, you’ll get to grips with real-world issues. These include audit policy, global climate-related financial reporting, cybersecurity, and professional infrastructure change.

Career impact: apply your learning

Accelerate your career impact and apply what you learn straight away – our Executive Master of Accounting programme is part-time, so you can fit in your learning journey, no matter what your work context is.

Focus on career outcomes

Amplify your strengths and identify additional areas to excel in, such as management and organisational skills, utilising power dynamics and more practical skills like data analytics. Learn to think more strategically about your role and the way it impacts on others.

Career outcomes

Supporting you into your career path

The Cambridge Executive Master of Accounting supports paths to roles such as:  

  • accounting firm partnership 
  • CFO 
  • controller 
  • financial leadership 
  • market regulator
  • climate-related financial disclosure
  • social-related financial disclosure
  • finance and accounting public policy

Colleges, alumni and Cambridge life

College networks and alumni membership

With more than 200 locations worldwide, our prestigious Cambridge alumni network has links across the globe. By choosing the Executive Master of Accounting programme, you’ll align yourself with industry leaders wherever you go. You’ll be joining a group of fellow students made up of experienced professionals who will challenge you, guided by industry-leading experts.

By joining one of the Cambridge Colleges, you’ll also become part of a rich community, integrating into the storied world of a city famous for its academic prowess and accomplishments.

Skills beyond accounting

Our alumni report multiple benefits to joining this programme; allowing you to develop skills that will allow you to help your current organisation become more efficient and effective, saving money and labour. Enhance your practical skills like data analytics, programming or manipulating software packages like Python, SQL, AI, machine learning and blockchain or Tableau, enabling you to manipulate algorithmic trading.

Developing soft skills like intrapersonal awareness will improve your management abilities and wellbeing. Learn more about power dynamics and gain more clarity on how to impact group dynamics. This course will give you a greater understanding of the people you work with, allowing you to deepen trust levels within the team.

Cambridge life

Cambridge is a hot spot for entrepreneurial activity and networking, and our enviable location and history of creating, launching and supporting new ventures draws people from around the world. Discover Cambridge’s Silicon Fen and learn about the investment capital it attracts. With your college located at the heart of the Cambridge Cluster, you will be close to learning, advice, experience and networks for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, at any stage of your career.

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FAQs

Electives let you broaden your experiences, focus on subjects of particular interest, and tailor your Executive Master of Accounting to your specific needs.

Subjects vary from year to year, chosen to best complement the interests of each cohort. Executive Master of Accounting and EMBA students work together on electives to maximise the opportunities to learn from others and to increase the range of subjects on offer.

Recent electives on offer include:

  • Equity Valuation
  • Leadership in Organisations
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Introduction to Accounting Research
  • Tax for Finance Professionals
  • Philosophy of Business
  • Strategic Change and Renewal
  • Consumer Behaviour
  • Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
  • Beyond Calls to Action
  • Thinking Strategically
  • Entrepreneurial Finance
  • Leading Effective Projects: A Managerial Perspective
  • Customer Centricity: A Strategic Approach
  • The Effective Director
  • Complex Financial Transactions
  • Design, Thinking and Innovation
  • Net Zero Entrepreneurship
  • Enterprising Families and Family Offices
  • The Rise of Fin Tech
  • Gender and Diversity
  • Sustainable and Responsible Finance
  • Circular Economy
  • Dark Fintech: The Cyber Arms Race
  • Geopolitics and Business Decisions
  • Scaling Ventures
  • Entrepreneurship through Acquisition
  • Advanced Corporate Finance
  • Competition Policy and Regulation

The University of Cambridge Postgraduate Open Day is usually in November. Visit the Postgraduate Admissions Events page for more details.

Cambridge Judge Business School also hosts regular Experience Days throughout the year. Please see our Admissions Events page for further information.

The Executive Master of Accounting also holds taster days where you can tour the Business School and attend lectures with current students. Find upcoming taster days on our Executive Master of Accounting Events page.

No, our students live and work across the globe. Attendance is required in Cambridge during the 8 residential weeks.

Yes. Our Executive Master of Accounting is a 24-month, part-time programme designed to allow you to work while you study and implement what you’re learning in real-time.

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