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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
City Centre Campus (The Curzon Building)
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
Our BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance degree will help you develop the technical knowledge, analytical skills and professional judgement needed to pursue a career in accounting, finance or the wider business environment. You’ll explore how financial information is prepared, interpreted and used to support business decisions, while developing the ability to evaluate complex information, solve problems and communicate financial insights clearly. The course combines academic study with practical application, helping you understand how the principles and techniques you learn are used in professional settings. You’ll gain experience using industry-standard software such as Sage, Xero and Microsoft Office, explore the growing role of AI and data analytics in finance, and consider the ethical, sustainable and international factors that influence financial decision-making. With opportunities to gain experience through placements, internships and other forms of work experience, the course is designed to help you develop both the expertise and professional experience to support your future career.
What's covered in this course?You’ll study a broad range of accounting and finance topics, giving you a strong foundation before developing your knowledge in areas relevant to contemporary financial practice. These include Financial and Management Accounting, Corporate and Venture Finance, International Accounting Issues and financial reporting. You’ll develop your ability to analyse financial information, understand its implications for organisations and use it to support effective business and financial decision-making. We place a strong emphasis on applying your learning to realistic business situations. Using professional accounting systems and industry-standard software, you’ll work through complex case studies and explore financial problems that reflect situations you could encounter in the workplace. Your learning will be supported by a range of teaching approaches, including lectures, workshops and tutorials, alongside employer-led masterclasses, field trips, and online and blended learning activities. The course supports your progression towards professional accountancy qualifications and is mapped to align accreditation from major professional bodies including the ACCA, ICAEW and CIMA. When you graduate you may be eligible for exemptions from professional examinations, providing a distinct head start on your journey to becoming a qualified accountant. You’ll have opportunities to build experience alongside your academic studies through live projects from businesses, a professional placement year, internships and virtual work experience. These opportunities can help you apply your learning in a professional environment, develop your CV and build a portfolio of experience before graduation. You’ll also receive support from the University’s Careers team and have opportunities to engage with our network of local, regional and national employers. Accountancy and finance operate within an increasingly international business environment, and this is reflected throughout the course. You’ll develop an understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and consider international accounting issues, while learning alongside students and academics from a range of backgrounds. You may also have the opportunity to spend a semester studying abroad at one of our partner universities, giving you the chance to experience a different academic and cultural environment.
Professional Placement YearThis course offers an optional professional placement year. This allows you to spend a whole year with an employer, following successful completion of your second year, and is a great way to find out more about your chosen career. Some students even return to the same employers after completing their studies.
This module is designed to develop your fundamental knowledge and understanding of economic theory at introductory level and to basic finance as well as the financial world within which businesses operate. The Finance aspect of this module includes concepts such as Financial Objectives of Firm, Financial Environment, Time Value of Money, Investment Appraisal, Sources of Short and Long Term Finance, and Cost of Capital, will be introduced. It has many mathematical calculations which include the arithmetic underlying compounding and discounting of financial investments.
This module is designed to develop your fundamental knowledge and understanding of management accounting techniques. It will introduce you to the use of these accounting techniques to support management in their planning, controlling and decision making processes, both within industry and the service sector.
This module introduces the preparation of financial statements for a sole trader and develops the financial statements for a simple limited company. This module covers in depth the recording, processing and reporting of business transactions and events and will help you develop knowledge and understanding of the underlying principles and concepts relating to financial accounting and give you the opportunity to learn and use the system of double entry.
This module is designed to develop your fundamental knowledge and understanding of management accounting techniques. It will introduce you to the use of these accounting techniques to support management in their planning, controlling and decision making processes, both within industry and the service sector.
This module will develop your skills in both the preparation of financial statements for single and group companies (in accordance with the IASBs Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting and relevant International Financial Reporting Standards) and the analysis and understanding of such financial statements. This module will also help develop your skills in ratio analysis and interpretation.
This module builds on the prior management accounting knowledge and it is assumed that you have a basic understanding of how costs behave, short term decision making and the major accounting systems (absorption and marginal costing). The content will develop your knowledge of budgetary control and then focus on applying your learning to various short term decision-making scenarios.
This module is designed to provide you with the opportunity to undertake a credit bearing, 40- week Professional Placement as an integral part of your Undergraduate Degree. The purpose of the Professional Placement is to improve your employability skills which will, through the placement experience, allow you to evidence your professional skills, attitudes and behaviours at the point of entry to the postgraduate job market. Furthermore, by completing the Professional Placement, you will be able to develop and enhance your understanding of the professional work environment, relevant to your chosen field of study, and reflect critically on your own professional skills development within the workplace.
This module will contribute to the intellectual and personal development of students to the level of an honours graduate in the Accountancy field by offering a body of current theoretical knowledge and technical skills relevant to the advanced study of financial reporting at Level 6.
This module is designed to further develop knowledge and skills in the application of management accounting techniques. Building on the knowledge gained from levels 4 and 5, this module investigates how relevant strategic management accounting techniques, both quantitative and qualitative, can assist managers to control the performance of their business. Strategic management accounting is presented as a service function; a means to an end rather than an end itself. The aims are for you to understand and critically analyse the techniques, to be able to apply them to business situations, to be aware of their limitations, and make appropriate recommendations.
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