Accounting and Finance BSc(Hons)

Why choose this course?

• Professional accreditation from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, the Chartered Institute of Insurers (CII) and the Association of International Accountants
• Access to financial databases from Thomson-Reuters and Financial Analysis Made Easy (FAME)
• Option to take a paid placement year

Our Accounting and Finance BSc(Hons) will provide you with a thorough understanding not only of accounting and finance but of their real-life business environments. You will also gain practical skills such as project management, time management, presenting and budgeting. As you progress, the flexibility of this course allows you to tailor your learning to your interests through optional modules.

Learning is delivered through a stimulating mix of seminars, academic and industry lectures and workshops. You will mainly be assessed through group work, presentations, exams and essays.

During your third year, you can take a year’s salaried placement in industry, giving you the change to apply your learning, gain valuable experience and make professional contacts for your future career.

Making sure that what you learn with us is relevant, up to date and what employers are looking for is our priority, so courses are reviewed and enhanced on an ongoing basis. If you apply to us, you’ll be told about any new developments through our applicant portal.

Year 1

In your first year you will be introduced to various aspects of accounting and finance, building your fundamental knowledge and skills. 

Modules

• Financial Accounting

  This module will introduce you to the concepts, principles and techniques of financial accounting, that are essential to the world of business and finance. With this introduction you will have an adequate foundation to enable you to develop a further understanding of financial reports and their interpretation.

• Management Accounting

  In this module you will examine the basic accounting data flows within an organisation. The module begins to develop a framework wherein these data flow may be used to assist managers in the processes of planning, decision making, performance measurement and control.

• Economics

  You'll gain the relevant economic tools for the understanding of economic principles and key related concepts and their relationship with micro and macro economic issues.

• Financial Skills

  This module will provide you with insights to a wide range of mathematical techniques in order to develop and enhance your capacity for solving practical problems. The areas covered include arithmetic, algebra with elements of pre-calculus, probabilities and statistics.

• Managing Organisations and People in the Financial Sector

  This module will introduce you to the concepts, principles and theories of organisational behaviour and human resources management most relevant to the finance and accountancy sectors.

  You'll gain a sound knowledge and understanding of organising and managing people which will help you to develop the behaviours and traits required of a finance business partner.

• Academic and Professional Skills

  This module will provide you with the underpinning skills and strategies required to study successfully at undergraduate level as well as developing attributes that contribute to employability. You will also develop skills to prepare you for the employability (and work placement) process.

Year 2

In your second year you will take more advanced modules to build upon the topics from your first year, equipping you with the required skills for a career in finance.

Placement year

The paid work placement year is a vital part of the course. It gives you the chance to apply your learning to real-life situations and challenges, to meet and network with potential employers, and have opportunities to get real work experience before you graduate – something that employers value highly.

On your placement, you will complete a business project. This project contributes to your degree and, depending on the topic you choose, could provide valuable insight for your placement employer.

Our students have completed placements at American Express, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Dow Jones, Ernst & Young, the Financial Services Authority, FTSE Group, HM Revenue and Customs, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and The Bank of England.

It is also possible to undertake a placement year abroad.
Our dedicated Placements and Employability team will support you throughout, helping you to get a placement and during your placement. Read more about our placements.

Final year

In addition to tailoring your degree through optional modules such as risk management, taxation and auditing you will learn practical skills such as financial reporting. Depending on your module choices, this may give you exemptions from the examinations of the accrediting bodies.

Core modules

• Financial Reporting: Theory and Practice
• Finance and Risk Management
• Management Control Systems

Options*

• Advanced Case Study
• Placement Project
• Audit and Assurance
• Taxation
• Corporate Strategy
• International Finance
• Investment Management
• Game Theory in Finance and Business
• Happiness: Work and Society
• Contemporary Issues in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour

*Option modules are indicative and may change, depending on timetabling and staff availability.

International requirements

We can help you meet our English language or academic entry requirements.

Course fees

If you choose to take the professional placement (sandwich) year offered on this course you will pay a reduced fee during this year. Our fee for the professional placement year is £1,230 for home students and £2,060 for international students. This fee may be subject to small increases, in line with inflation.

Info

The fees listed here are for full-time courses beginning in the academic year 2019–20.

Further tuition fees are payable for each subsequent year of study and are subject to an annual increase of no more than 5% or RPI (whichever is the greater). The annual increase for UK/EU students, who are subject to regulated fees, will increase no more than the statutory maximum fee.

You can find out more about our fees in the university's student contract and tuition fee policy (pdf).

The tuition fee you have to pay depends on a number of factors including the kind of course you take, and whether you study full-time or part-time. If you are studying part-time you will normally be charged on a pro rata basis depending on the number of modules you take.

What's included in the fee?

When costs such as health or DBS checks, or use of specialist materials are incurred as a mandatory requirement of the course they are included in your tuition fee.

You may incur additional costs depending on the optional modules or activities you choose. The cost of optional activities is not included in your tuition fee and you will need to meet this cost in addition to your fees. Before you apply check with the school that provides your course using the contact details in the Find out more tab (at the end of this page) for advice about what is included and what optional costs you could face so you can budget accordingly.

See our finance pages for advice about funding and scholarships as well as further information about fees and advice on international and island fee-paying status.

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