• Finance and accounting will always be at the core of any company. We can help you hone your skills to better understand the complex relationships so you can explicitly apply your expertise to various contexts.
• Learn from experts who make a difference. Many of our course instructors work with the government, have important positions in prestigious committees, conduct high quality research together with top companies to focus on future-oriented topics, and are influential opinion leaders who are often in the public eye on a daily basis due to their publications. What we do has a concrete impact.

Students in the Master's degree program Finance and Accounting must successfully pass the following subject areas totaling 120 ECTS credits:

Additional information: Two fundamental courses, “KS Fundamentals in Tax Management” and “KS Fundamentals in Public and Non-Profit Sector Finance and Accounting”, will be offered for the first time during the 2025 Summer Semester.

If you would like to learn more about the Master's degree program Finance and Accounting, we recommend taking a look at the curriculum. We have also summarized some of the program details separately.

You select your area of focus! Select two of the four areas of specialization below:

• Finance: Banking management, governance & CSR, valuation, asset management, securities management
• Management Accounting: Controlling & business intelligence, performance management for public institutions, case study seminar, Behavioral management accounting, group controlling
• Accounting: Consolidation, UGB, international developments in public accounting, company valuation and analysis
• Tax Management: Tax profit calculation, entrepreneurship, company reorganization and termination, taxing capital investments, international tax planning

Prof. Teodoro Cocca and program graduate Andreas Göttfert talk about the Finance and Accounting Master's program at the JKU.

The Master's degree program Finance & Accounting provides you with interdisciplinary expertise in Accounting, Finance and Tax Management, qualifying you for a wide range of management positions:

• You will learn to apply an integrated approach to all corresponding methods in modern financial management at companies, in public administration, and at private, non-profit organizations.
• As part of modern studies in digitalization, sustainability, and crisis management, you will learn the way expertise is incorporated and applied to interdisciplinary networking.
• You will also hone your personal and team skills in order to effectively solve problems and communicate finance-related issues as part of of the company's system.

Program graduates can pursue countless career opportunities and professions in Austria and abroad in the areas of finance, tax management, managerial accounting and financial accounting, including positions:

• at companies in all industries
• in auditing, tax consulting, controlling and business consulting
• in the banking sector (i.e. portfolio management), treasury, investment controlling, investment consulting
• in public administration and in non-profit sector management
• in academic research and higher-level education

On average, graduates of this degree program find a job before graduation. After 3 years on the job, their average monthly gross salary is € 4,656.

Program Management

Are you interested in the Master's degree program in Finance and Accoutning? Feel free to contact us via e-mail: programs-businessschool(at)jku.at

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