Accounting and Finance, BSc (Hons)

This course provides a comprehensive foundation in finance, accountancy, and general management, equipping students with essential skills for informed business decisions, ethical practices, and sustainable growth. It emphasizes budgeting, financial administration, and strategic development, while allowing customization to align with career goals. Key benefits include preparation for professional qualifications with bodies like ACCA, CIMA, and ICAEW, offering exemptions based on module choices; hands-on experience via case studies, a Bloomberg Trading Floor, and work placements; and a broad curriculum covering financial reporting, management accounting, and economics.In the first year, students build core knowledge through modules like Principles of Financial Accounting and Business Economics. The second year focuses on advanced skills in financial management and research, while the final year consolidates learning with optional modules and a major project. Assessment includes exams, essays, presentations, and group work, ensuring students achieve technical proficiency and global awareness, with recognition from leading professional bodies.

Year One This course has a common first year which enables you to work alongside students doing similar courses to you, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn. If you discover an interest in a specific subject you have studied, upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements). Year One Modules

• Principles of Financial Accounting

• Principles of Management Accounting

• Principles of Finance

• Mathematics and Statistics

• Business Economics

• Entrepreneurial Thinking

Year Two In year two, you will continue to develop the skills and knowledge you’ve learnt. We do this by embedding the following four principles into the curriculum and developing your:   Technical skills – digital fluency, backed with the right academic knowledge  Study skills – to be an adaptive, independent and proactive learner  Professional skills – to have the behaviour and abilities to succeed in your career  Global awareness – the beliefs and abilities to be a resilient, confident and motivated global citizen  Modules Financial Reporting Management Accounting Financial Management Designing a Research Proposal Accounting Information System Financial Services Final Year Year three aims to bring you to the level to enter the world of work by consolidating your knowledge and skills from years one and two. You could also work on a large final project in an area of your interest, with the support of a supervisor. For more information about what you will study, please visit our website.