Accounting & Control
Admission requirements and application
There are strict admission criteria. These are set by the Admissions Board, which also decides on individual applications. The requirements are split up into Master specific requirements and general requirements. Please read them both carefully:
Specific admission requirements Master programme Accounting and Control:
You can gain direct access to the Master's programme in Accounting & Control with a university Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business Administration or Econometrics. However, you must have successfully completed the following subjects from the VU-curriculum, or their equivalents at other universities:
- The compulsory core subject Accounting (kernvak Accounting)
- The Accounting tutorial (werkcollege bij kernvak Accounting)
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Management Accounting
- Accounting Information Systems
- Methods and Techniques for Business Economics Research.
Substantively, entry-level knowledge is expected to be equivalent to a thorough familiarity with the following literature:
| Financial Accounting | Elliott&Elliott, Financial Accounting, Reporting and Analysis (International edition, Prentice Hall) |
| Management Accounting | Horngren, Foster & Datar, Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis (Prentice Hall) |
| Quantitative methods | Berenson, Levine & Krehbiel, Basic Business Statistics, Concepts and Applications (Prentice Hall) |
| Financial Statement Analysis | Palepu, Bernard & Healy, Business Analysis and Valuation (either US GAAP or IFRS edition) |
Please make sure you also read the general requirements and application procedure.
More information regarding the pre-master programme Accounting & Control (in Dutch)
