Master Accounting and Control (MAAC)

You have a strong financial background and are familiar with the business world. But you want to go a step further. Enrich your knowledge and give well-founded management advice with self-confidence. The Master Accounting and Control (MAAC) programme at The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THU) offers you the opportunity to do this. It is a professional master's degree for ambitious students with a nose for financial, economic and organisational growth. Through a programme based on a strong international awareness, you will be trained for a top international financial position.

Broad and international

With the MAAC programme, you learn everything that a modern Financial Manager needs to know. Besides management accounting, financial management and information management, subjects such as professional ethics, risk management and people management are also included in the programme. It is a broad curriculum, tested in practice and optimally geared towards an international career. The language of instruction is English and your fellow students are multicultural. Thanks to this versatility, you learn to hold your own in a challenging work environment.

More than numbers

The MAAC programme expands the world of earnings, expenditures, loans and investments. Your area of work transcends the financial aspects. Checking, budgeting, analysing and advising come naturally to you. You understand perfectly how business processes work and you are able to translate your knowledge of the market, economy and organisation into a well-founded business strategy. In short, you are the conscience of the company, on whom the management blindly relies. With a MAAC degree, you can develop your career to become the Financial Director of an international company. You can follow this Master's programme on a full-time or part-time basis.

	MAAC - Full-time	MAAC - Part-time
Type of education	Professional Master	Professional Master
Language of instruction	English	English
Admission requirements	Higher professional education (bachelor) degree with major in accounting and/or economics and two years of work experience	Higher professional education (bachelor) degree with major in accounting and/or economics and two years of work experience
Start	3rd September 2012	3rd September 2012
Duration	12 months	24 months
Lecture days	Three working days (variable)	Two evenings (Monday and Thursday)
Lecture hours	9.00  - 12.00 hrs. and 13.00 - 16.00 hrs.	19.00 - 22.00 hrs
Time investment	40 hours per week	18 hours per week
Credits	60 EC	60 EC
Costs	€ 14,900 - (including course materials for the first phase) € 15,050 in instalments	€ 14,900 - (including course materials for the first phase) € 15,050 in instalments
Location	The Hague University, Johanna Westerdijkplein 75 in The Hague	The Hague University, Johanna Westerdijkplein 75 in The Hague
Accreditation	Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation (NVAO)	Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organisation (NVAO)
Master's degree	Master Accounting and Control	Master Accounting and Control
Further studies	CIMA [link www.cimaglobal.com/] ACCA [link www.accaglobal.com/] (English-language accountant training)	CIMA [link www.cimaglobal.com/] ACCA [link www.accaglobal.com/] (English-language accountant training)