Accounting and Finance, BSc (Hons)

This Accounting and Finance degree combines core principles of accounting, management, and finance, providing a strong foundation for careers in accountancy or broader business sectors. It equips students with essential skills through modules on financial accounting, management accounting, ethics, sustainability, and financial economics, using real-world business examples to explore how finances influence organizational decisions. The curriculum blends academic theory with practical applications, offering options for a placement year or study abroad, and provides exemptions from professional exams like ACA, ACCA, and CIMA.In the first year, core modules cover foundational topics such as double-entry accounting, quantitative methods, and taxation principles. Assessments include examinations, assignments, reports, projects, presentations, and a 10,000-word dissertation, which tests problem-solving, communication, and real-world application skills.

Year 1 Core modules: Financial Accounting teaches the techniques of double entry accounting and its application in recording transactions, adjusting financial records and preparing non-complex financial statements. Quantitative Methods 1 provides the fundamental quantitative techniques needed for your degree. Additionally, it provides a rigorous introduction to the foundation mathematical techniques needed for various modules throughout the degree program. Fundamentals of Management Accounting teaches you to understand, apply and critically appraise the fundamental knowledge and techniques that underpin the area of management accounting, from planning and control to costing and decision making. Ethics and Sustainability will introduce you to the social and ethical contexts in which business operate, using real-world examples. You will learn about the professional codes of ethics, learn to identify when an issue arises and develop the skills to propose alternative solutions. Additionally, you will gain understanding of the UN Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs) and their implication in the wider business societies. Introduction to Financial Economics introduces the basic principles of microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics explores areas including the role of consumers and businesses in the marketplace, markets in action, market structure, strategic rivalry and growth strategies. Macroeconomics includes exchange rates and the balance of payments, globalisation, fiscal policy, inflation, unemployment and economic growth. Foundations of Finance examines the key principles of corporate finance and their importance to firms. It also provides students with a solid grounding in issues of finance as they relate to business and financial markets. Principles of Taxation enables you to understand the general objectives of tax and to complete basic calculations in relation to income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, corporation tax, and VAT. You will also be able to prepare basic tax computations and provide tax advice to individuals and companies.