| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
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John Currie - Programme Director
Meet a Student - Patric Evason
KPMG Led Analytics Summer School
Accounting Talks Postgraduate Open Day 24 November 2020
Accounting Talks Postgraduate Open Day 2 March 2021
Course Overview
Chartered Accountants Ireland Exemptions
The programme syllabus is closely based on the CAP2 syllabus of Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI). Therefore, significant exemptions from the CAI examinations are available. Graduates of the MAcc are granted full exemption from CAI’s CAP2 examinations, provided that they have full exemption from CAI’s CAP1 examinations before taking the MAcc.
MAcc graduates’ success in recent professional examinations
Our graduates consistently achieve very high places in the Final Admitting Examination of Chartered Accountants Ireland and in the final examination of the Irish Tax Institute (AITI). In the recent professional exams, our graduates Aisling Curtin and Sarah Finnegan obtained second and third place respectively in CAI’s Final Admitting Examination and Nora Cosgrove was placed second in the final examinations of the Irish Taxation Institute.
Summer Schools
The programme hosts two summer schools which are held after the summer exams, typically in May and June. The topics vary from year to year. See details of the 2023 Summer Schools below:
Summer school #1: Analytics in Accounting and Auditing, delivered by KPMG ( 10th - 16th May 2023)
This summer school aims to give participants a rich understanding of the use of software and cognitive technologies to analyse audit and accounting data. The summer school demonstrates KPMG tools which were developed to harness the power of technology and bring greater vigour, precision and meaningful insights to the increasing age of data. Students are provided with an opportunity to see how data and analytics are used in a practical setting, bringing meaning, life and understanding into accounting information.
Summer school #2: (Financing Net Zero, delivered by Barry Gavin) (29th May - 2nd June)
The objective of this summer school is to enable students to be able to hold their own with professionals working in the sustainability sector by developing a knowledge of the concepts, language, structures, process, risks, challenges and opportunities for corporate sustainability. In particular, students will learn to appreciate the role that finance has in enabling the transition to Net Zero.
