Programme Objectives:

The master programme Tax and Accounting is being offered in co-operation with the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. It is a consecutive programme that deepens, based upon a Bachelor degree, the topic of tax and accounting. The students get both scientifically well-founded and practice-oriented prepared for the challenges of daily work of tax accountants, chartered accountants, and accounting departments of large enterprises. The master programme is a full time study course. The lectures take place on three days per week during semesters. The acquired knowledge can be deepened through selft-study and course-related practical activities in the remaining time. This enables exceptionally efficient students to complete their required practical times for the admission to the tax consultant exam already during the master studies. 

The lectures get conveyed by two thirds at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and by one third at the University of Applied Sciences Ingolstadt. 

Programme Overview:

The study program covers three fulltime study semesters. The Master' Thesis is written during the second and third semester. The lectures will be held on three days a week each semester. If starting in winter semester 2011/12, the first two semester take place in Augsburg whilst the third is held in Ingolstadt. An overwiew about the moduels in the study program can be seen here.

Admission:

The following qualifications have to be fulfilled by applicants: 

• The successful completion of an appropriate study programme at a German university with at least 210 ECTS or 180 ECTS + additional qualification during the master studies with 30 ECTS
  or
• A comparable sucessfull completion at a foreign university. The examination board decides upon equivalency.
• An additional prerequisite is the successful completion of an aptitude test procedure. An important prerequisite for participating in the procedure is the application due in form and time as well as the qualification prerequisites as described in 1. During the aptitude test procedure, all submitted documents are screened and evaluated according to a scheme. At least 70 points are required to pass. 

Applications for the master programme have to be handed via the Website of the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg.

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The knowledge acquired during studying Tax and Accounting empower graduates for a qualified collaboration in teams of tax accountant offices or accounting firms as well as for taking on qualified tasks and leading roles in the accounting and tax departments of industry- and service companies. The graduates have a broad knowledge base that is required for tax accountant candidates or accounting assistants in a tax accountant office of accounting firm. At the same time, the master programme is a foundation stone for the preparation of the tax accountant exam.