Postgraduate Students Handbook 2017/18
Postgraduate Students Handbook2017/18
CONTENTSContents2How to get in Touch and give FeedbackDepartment of Accounting Welcome3Student and Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC)The Programmes4Term Dates and School Closures5About the Department of Accounting613Student Suggestion and ConcernsAttendance/AbsenceCommunicating with You14Department website and Social MediaWho’s Who in the Department7STARTING YOUR PROGRAMME8Fieldwork SafetyWelcome Week Schedule 2017 tableRegistrationThe British Library of Economics and PoliticalScience9Arriving LateRequesting Written References forEmployment/Further StudyFeesInterruption, Deferral, Withdrawal,Programme Transfer and Change of Mode ofStudySettling in at LSEPersonal Development EventsWelcome WeekStudent Wellbeing Service: One to OneCommunication at LSELSE Personal Development Aide MemoireEmail and IT Accounting Set-UpQuality AssuranceTimetablesStudent Teaching SurveysCertification of RegistrationLSE for You101516Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at LSEInternational Student Immigration VisaAdvice TeamMoodleCourse RegistrationFinancial SupportLSE LifeCodes of Good PracticeStudent Services Centre (SSC)1711General School and Programme RegulationsAdvice, Communication and OperationsImportant Notes on PlagiarismGetting in Touch with AdmissionsKEY INFORMATIONWhere We AreDepartment PG Student RoomsStudent Information Centre (SIC)Formal Teaching12Classification Schemes18Results and Transcripts of ResultsGraduation CeremoniesDegree CertificatesAlumni AssociationLecture HandoutsLSE Volunteer CentreFormative AssessmentAccounting Careers ConsultantsSummative AssessmentSummary of Sources of Support at LSE19202
DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING WELCOMEDear Students,The excellence of research and teaching in the Department of Accounting at LSE isglobally acknowledged. The Department, known for its tradition of intellectualdiversity, has long been at the forefront of research and teaching on the role ofaccounting in the economy and society. We are committed to creating anddisseminating knowledge related to accounting through research, teaching, andvarious professional and policy contributions. The Department also hosts theinter-disciplinary Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), whichexemplifies this commitment.Our mission is to provide a high-quality education that helps you develop and applyyour knowledge and expertise to your likely varied and evolving interests over thespan of your career and beyond. London is an ideal setting for your study: global, asLSE, with innumerable educational and professional benefits resulting from theproximity of public and private organisations and businesses, the City, policyinstitutes, think tanks, regulators, and Westminster.Students on the Department’s programmes grasp the potential of accounting in awide range of settings. They learn to analyse how accounting is implicated in amultifaceted range of institutional and organisational processes of calculation,reporting, and evaluation. They appreciate the interdependencies between accounting and accountability, agency, transparency, sustainability, governance,organisational control, risk, performance management, policy making and change.Our academics explore an equally diverse range of issues in their research drawingon a variety of disciplinary perspectives.Each year we admit over 400 students on our undergraduate and several graduateprogrammes. You are now among them. Partake fully, and to the fullest. Explore,learn, and contribute. Each year, we also welcome a number of departmentalspeakers, academics and practitioners, in a variety of forums, in addition to theunparalleled public events and lectures hosted by LSE. In a word, engage!I welcome you, and wish you the very best of success during your time with us,Professor Wim A. Van der StedeHead of Department of AccountingJuly 20173
THE PROGRAMMESThe Department of Accounting offer the following postgraduate courses: Diploma in Accounting and Finance MSc Accounting and Finance MSc Accounting, Organisations and InstitutionsThese Programmes aim to offer the following benefits: The opportunity to study in one of the most highly-rated Departments in thesubject area in the world, both for its research and its institutional links andfor its research-led teaching. Exposure to world-class social scientists, business leaders, politicians, andmodern thinkers who visit and/or teach at LSE. The opportunity to acquire a solid foundation if students have little or nobackground in accounting or finance, or extend their knowledge in tis areawithin a flexible programme. The opportunity to prepare for careers in the fields of finance and accounting,management consulting and advisory services in both the private and publicsector.Disclaimer: The information in this Handbook may be superseded by recent changesin regulations and other, more recent, particulars. As a guiding principle, the School’swebpages will generally contain the latest, most up-to-date information.4
TERM DATES AND SCHOOL CLOSURESACADEMIC YEAR 2017/18Michaelmas TermThursday 21 September — Friday 8 DecemberLent Term ExamsTuesday 2 January — Friday 5 JanuaryLent TermMonday 8 January — Friday 23 MarchSummer TermMonday 23 April— Friday 8 JuneFor those departments that operate them, School Reading Weeks are the weeksbeginning 30 October 2017 and 12 February 2018.The School will also be closed on English public holidays. In 2017/18 these will be:Christmas closureThursday 21 December— Monday 1 January 2018Easter closureThursday 29 March— Wednesday 4 April 2018May Bank HolidayMonday 7 May 2018Spring Bank HolidayMonday 28 May 2018Summer Bank HolidayMonday 27 August 2018USING THIS HANDBOOKPlease read this handbook carefully. It provides essential information about theDepartment’s teaching, assessment, administration and programme requirements.It also contains essential guidance about how to get help from the Departmentwith administrative and academic issues and advice on study skills.5
ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTINGThe Department of Accounting continues to enjoy a reputation as one of theleading groups in the world for teaching and research on the economic,institutional and organisational aspects of accounting and financial management.Maintaining and advancing our leading international reputation for teaching andresearch is our top priority, and thus, we are committed: To enhance still further the quality of the student experience in ourprogrammes at both the undergraduate and graduate level, such as bymaintaining effective student-faculty ratios and ensuring an appropriatebalance and mix of students to maintain diversity and quality of theeducational experience. To strengthen further our outstanding research environment throughresearch seminars, visitors and strong links with other departments,research centres and external constituencies, making it possible to studyrelevant accounting issues within the rich context of the social sciences inline with the School’s intellectual tradition.We are proud about the diversity in everything we do, as it is the key to ourcompetitive advantage locally as well as globally. We therefore strive to continueto combine ‘global appeal’ with a distinctive ‘European orientation’ in terms ofinstitutional knowledge and affiliations as well as intellectual traditions.The following web pages provide further information about our programmes andresearch, as well as our faculty, and news and events. We hope you will find thesepages insightful in providing the information you are looking for.Finally, we play a leading role in scholarship through our editorial contribution toa number of academic international journals, such as: Professor Peter Miller is Associate Editor of Accounting, Organizations andSociety; Professor Wim Van der Stede is Editor of Management AccountingResearch; Professor Bjorn Jorgensen is Associate Editor of the Journal of Accounting,Auditing and Finance; Professor Peter Pope is Editor of the Journal of Business Finance andAccounting; Professor Ane Tamayo is Associate Editor of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; Dr Andrea Mennicken is Associate Editor of the European AccountingReview; Other faculty are on the editorial boards of numerous and a wide variety ofjournals.6
WHO’S WHO IN THE DEPARTMENTKEY FACULTYHead of DepartmentProfessor Wim Van der Stedew.van-der-stede@lse.ac.ukRoom OLD 2.18, Ext: 6695Programme Director,Diploma in Accounting and FinanceDr Pascal Frantzp.frantz@lse.ac.ukRoom OLD 3.07, Ext: 7233Programme Director,MSc Accounting and FinanceProfessor Alnoor Bhimania.bhimani@lse.ac.ukRoom OLD 3.08, Ext: 7329Programme Director,MSc Accounting, Organisations and InstitutionProfessor Michael Powerm.k.power@lse.ac.ukRoom KSW3.12, Ext: 7228Programme Director,PhD in AccountingDr Andrea Mennickena.mennicken@lse.ac.ukPROFESSIONAL SERVICES STAFFDepartment ManagerYvonne Guthriey.guthrie@lse.ac.ukRoom OLD 3.19 Ext: 6408MSc Programme Manager,Diploma in Accounting and FinanceMSc Accounting and FinanceDorothy Richardsd.richards@lse.ac.ukRoom OLD3.22, Ext: 6603MSc Programme Manager,MSc Accounting, Organisations and InstitutionMuhammed Sabih Iqbalm.s.iqbal@lse.ac.ukRoom OLD 3.22 Ext: 6278Programme Manager,PhD in AccountingSandra Mas.s.ma@lse.ac.ukRoom OLD 3.22, Ext: 7737Department AdministratorJustin Adamsj.adams5@lse.ac.ukRoom OLD3.20, Ext: 6542Student Information Centre AssistantSalah Ud DinS.ud-din@lse.ac.ukRoom OLD3.20, Ext: 37807
STARTING YOUR PROGRAMMEThe New Arrivals Checklist is a useful tool for preparing to commence your programme at the LSE. The following covers yourimmediate priorities in the first few weeks of the first term:Department of Accounting MSc Welcome Schedule 2017DateTuesday14 SeptemberTuesday19 SeptemberWednesday20 SeptemberThursday21 SeptemberFriday22 September14-15 onMSc AOI14.0014.30Hong Kong TheatreWelcome MeetingMSc AOI14.3017.-00KSW 1.04WelcomeReceptionMSc AOI17.0021.00OLD Fourth Floor CafeSchool WelcomePresentationDiploma A&FMSc A&FMSc AOI10.0011.30TBCMSc AOI WelcomePre-sessionalMSc AOI09.0017.00KSW.G.01RegistrationDiploma A&F11.3012.00Hong Kong TheatreRegistrationMSc A&F12.0012.30Hong Kong TheatreWelcome MeetingDiploma A&F10.0012.30KSW.G.01WelcomeReceptionDiploma A&F16.3018.30Chairmans Dining Room/Directors Dining Room (OldBuilding)Welcome MeetingMSc A&F10.0012.00Old TheatreWelcomeReceptionMSc A&F12.3014.00Shaw LibrarySchool ServicesTalkDiploma A&FMSc A&FMSc AOI15.0017.00Old TheatreGraduate Weekend Diploma A&FMSc A&FCambridgeMSc AOI8
RegistrationIn your first week at LSE, please makesure that you formally register foryour degree programme (read thesewebpages for full guidance onregistration). It is essential that youregister at the specified time, as youwill not be able to receive teachinguntil you are a registered student andyour course choices may be limited ifyou are unable to select your coursesas a result of registering late. Atregistration you will be asked toprovide proof of your eligibility tostudy in the UK in order to receiveyour student ID card.Arriving LateIf you are unable to make yourallocated Registration slot, please seeLate arrivals for advice on catching upquickly.Certificate of RegistrationA certificate of registration providesproof to organisations, such as theHome Office, council tax offices andbanks, that you are registered as acurrent student at LSE.Once you are formally registered withthe School you will be able to printout your certificate via LSE for You.The ‘Certificate of Registration’option can be found in the‘Certification and Documentation’section of LSE for You.Please be aware it can take up to 4hours for your change in RegistrationStatus to be picked up by LSE for Youso you may have to wait a short timeif you’ve just registered.If you require this certificate to besigned and stamped, staff at theStudent Services Centre will be happyto do this for you. If you require acertificate with information beyondwhat is on the Certificate ofRegistration please see registrydocuments.FeesThe School offers two options forpayment of fees. You can pay in fullprior to Registration or via a paymentplan. Full fee information, includinghow to pay, can be found on the Feesand Student Finance. A list of fees isavailable online.Settling in at LSEThe Your First Week webpagesprovide comprehensive informationto help you settle in to life at LSE.Information on Pre-sessional andEarly Arrivals is particularly useful forMSc students expected to arrivebefore Welcome Week (18-22September). LSE Social also providesa list of events and exhibitions goingon around the School.Welcome WeekThe Welcome Week webpagescontain information about bothcompulsory and optional eventstaking place at the start of theacademic year, including thosespecific to your department and MScprogramme, as well as central SchoolWelcome Week events.The table on the left (page 6) showsyou which of the following eventsyou should attend in Welcome Week.Communication at LSEIt is very important that you keep theDepartment and the School informedof your current home and term-timeaddresses, telephone numbers andemail addresses. In your first weeksyou should check that thisinformation is accurately listed on LSEfor You. If any of this informationchanges, you must update it on LSEfor You immediately.Email & IT Account Set-upThe School will use your LSE emailaddress to communicate with you soyou should check it regularly. Youshould also use your LSE email account for all correspondence withmembers of the School.For advice on activating your LSE ITaccount and for further informationsee LSE Services/IMT.Microsoft Outlook is available on allstudent PCs on the LSE network. Youcan configure a smart phone/tabletto access LSE email and other onlineresources. You can also access e-mailoff-campus using webmail and theremote desktop functionality, or byusing email clients for laptops andmobile phones. For instructions onhow to access your email off campusvisit LSE Services/IMT/remote.TimetablesTimetables for all courses areavailable on the LSE website, listedaccording to course code. TheDepartment cannot provide you withan individual timetable and studentsare responsible for keeping an eyetheir own timetable on LSEForYOUand timetables pages9
LSE for YouLSE for You is a personalised webportal which gives you access to arange of services. For example, youcan: view or change your personaldetails reset your Library andnetwork passwords monitor and pay your tuitionfees online order certificates and officialdocumentation check your exam resultsYou can also access online tutorialson how to navigate and personaliseLSE For You via its login page. Useyour LSE network username andpassword to login via lse.ac.uk/lseforyou.MoodleMoodle is LSE's Virtual LearningEnvironment (VLE). It is a passwordprotected web environment thatcontains a range of teachingresources, activities, assignments,information and discussions for yourcourse. The content of Moodle is theresponsibility of your teacher and soit will vary from course to course (notall teachers choose to use Moodle).You can access Moodle from anycomputer connected to the internet,on or off campus.Go to moodle.lse.ac.uk/ and use yourLSE user name and password to login. This page also has links to helpand advise on using Moodle. You willalso find links to Moodle from anumber of web pages, including thewebpage for 'Staff & Students'. If youhave any technical problems withMoodle you should contact thehelpdesk at it.helpdesk@lse.ac.uk.If you have difficulty using any ofthese facilities, the IT Services HelpDesk will be able to help you. It islocated on the Library First floor. ITServices also run a number of trainingcourses for students.Course RegistrationInformation about postgraduatecourse choice and seminar sign upcan be found on the Student ServicesCentre webpage.You can select your preferred coursechoices as soon as the GraduateCourse Choice system opens onFriday 22 September 2017. However,you will only be able to access the‘Graduate Course Choice’ option inLSE for You when your admissionspaperwork is completed. You mustregister for your course choices (forboth Michaelmas and Lent terms) viaLSE For You by 12:00 noon Monday 9October 2017.Many courses have ‘controlledaccess’ and you will need to apply tothe department teaching the coursefor permission to take it before youcan select it. If such application isrequired, it will be indicated in thesystem.Your overall diet of courses is alsosubject to the approval of your homedepartment.Some departments allocate places toseminars centrally whilst otherspermit you to choose using theseminar sign-up facility in LSE for You.Personal timetables can then beviewed in LSE for You.LSE LifeLSE Life is the School’s centre foracademic, professional and personaldevelopment. They can help you findyour best ways to study, thing aboutwhere your studies might lead you,and make the most of your time atLSE. LSE Life offers: guidance and hands-onpractice of the key skills you’llneed to do well at LSE:effective reading, academicwriting and critical thinking workshops related to how toadapt to new or difficultsituations, includingdevelopment of skills forleadership, study/work/lifebalance, and preparing for theworking world a place to meet and worktogether with your peers oninterdisciplinary groupprojects and research support in making thetransition to (or back to)university life;10
advice and practice onworking in study groups and oncross-culturalcommunication and teamwork Graduation ceremonies Information for new arrivals Programme registrationideas and inspiration aboutacademic pursuits and pathways into professional life andmuch more Transcripts and degree certificates Visa and immigration advice(drop-in service)LSE LIFE is located on the ground floorof the library and is your first port ofcall to discover what is available foryou.The SSC provides a general enquiryservice for students between 11amand 4pm every weekday. You canalso contact us by telephone.The LSE LIFE team, together withadvisers and specialists from LSECareers, LSE Library, the LanguageCentre and other parts of the School,will be on - 19 - hand to answer yourquestions. Sign up for a workshop,come by for help with your homework,or just drop in.Details of who to contact and moreinformation can be found on ourwebsite: lse.ac.uk/sscStudent Services Centre (SSC)The Student Services Centre is locatedon the ground floor of the Old Building.It provides advice and information onthe following services: Certificates of registration Course choice and class changes Examinations and results Fees – process fee paymentsand distribute cheques (drop-inservice) Financial Support – advice onscholarships, awards, prizes,emergency funding and studentships (drop-in service) Graduate Admissions (drop-inservice)Advice, Communications andOperationsThe Advice, Communications andOperations provide advice tostudents on academic matters(particularly around non-progression,interruption and withdrawals), runthe Student Services enquiry counter,co-ordinate Welcome Week andco-ordinate Student Services Centrecommunications: Their specificresponsibilities include: Providing the first point ofcontact for enquiries andsignposting enquirers to theappropriate school services Coordinating all SchoolWelcome Week events,maintaining the Your FirstWeeks web pages andmanaging the Off CampusSupport Scheme Providing one-to-one adviceon School Regulations andCodes of Practice Processing applications to theRepeat Teaching Panel andmonitoring attendance Producing replacementstudent ID cards forundergraduate and taughtmaters students Administering the School'sstudent consultative fora andthe Departmental TutorsForumContact the Advice, Communicationsand Operations team with a generalenquiryIn person: at the SSC counter duringopening hoursBy email: ssc.advice@lse.ac.ukTelephone: 020 7955 6167Getting in Touch withAd
Sandra Ma s.s.ma@lse.ac.uk Room OLD 3.22, Ext: 7737 Department Administrator Justin Adams j.adams5@lse.ac.uk Room OLD3.20, Ext: 6542 Student Information entre Assistant Salah Ud Din S.ud-din@lse.ac.uk Room OLD3.20, Ext: 3780 KEY FAULTY PROFESSIONAL SERVIES STAFF
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