Gain in-demand skills for a rewarding and well-paid career in finance with this combined honours programme.

Taught by our world-leading academics, this programme explores accounting and finance through the broader social sciences.

As well as developing your core financial knowledge, youll examine the ways institutions and organisations deal with calculation, reporting and evaluation. Youll look at the interdependencies between accounting and accountability, financial management and risk, performance management and sustainability, governance and regulation, policymaking and change.

The programme explores the role accounting and finance play in societies, economies, institutions, markets, organisations, and even individual behaviours. This interdisciplinary learning means that our graduates are highly sought-after in many areas, such as professional accountancy, investment banking and analysis, management consulting and financial management.

Depending on your chosen course options, you may be eligible for exemptions from some professional accountancy examinations on graduation – giving you a head start in your career.

Accreditations:

This programme is accredited by the following bodies for the purpose of exemptions from some professional examinations:

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) through the Accredited degree accelerated route

Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England (ICAEW)

Graduate destinations:

Recent graduates of this programme have gone on to work in the areas of professional accountancy, investment banking, investment analysis, management consultancy and financial management, the public sector, as well as further academic study.

If you successfully complete the degree, then depending on the optional courses you've taken, you may be eligible for exemptions from some examinations of the professional accountancy bodies.