This is a single honors degree in Accounting, with an optional placement year. With maximum professional accreditation, the degree will enable you to graduate as a partly exam-qualified accountant. The degree embeds a strong employability theme and demonstrates clear pathways for you, allowing you to specialize in your final year and also complete an independent piece of research in an area related to your work experience or an area of special interest.

This degree will be taught on a semester-based basis, with new modules being introduced each term. The degree incorporates a strong employability theme throughout the course in both credit-bearing and non-credit-bearing activities

Course structure

Because this is a degree with a strong link to a professional role and a professional career following graduation, the first two years of the degree are made up of compulsory modules, with an opportunity to specialize in chosen areas and develop a research project in Year 3.

The degree has six coherent subject pillars and one theme:

1. Financial accounting (Years 1, 2, and 3)
2. Management accounting (Years 1 and 2)
3. Technology (Years 1 and 2)
4. Audit and assurance (Years 2 and 3)
5. Taxation (Years 1, 2, and 3)
6. Research in accounting (Year 3)

• Employability theme (running throughout the degree)

The subject pillars build throughout the degree so that you can identify linkages between modules. The employability theme helps you to understand the link between work done and employability skills gained from both credit and non-credit-bearing activities.

Levels 1 and 2 of the degree are made up of core modules, as follows:

Level 1

• Financial Accounting
• Skills for the Professional Accountant
• Management Accounting
• Ethics in Accounting
• Economics for Accounting
• Business Law.

Level 2

• Financial Management
• Taxation
• Financial Reporting
• Business Strategy and Technology.

Placement Year (optional)

• Placement Year in Accounting

Level 3 (Degree)

The core modules in Level 3 are:

• Research Methods in Accounting

Candidates shall also study and be assessed in modules:

• Corporate Reporting
• Leadership
• Advanced Audit and Assurance
• Tax Planning for Business
• Corporate Governance

Placement

You may be able to take a work placement. Find out more.

Our specialist BSc Finance degree places considerable emphasis on the key quantitative and analytical skills needed to pursue a career in finance and financial markets. The degree prepares you for a career in the financial environment by providing a technical curriculum to strengthen the link between academia and practice.

The BSc Finance enables you to acquire a critical understanding of theories, empirical evidence and practical application whilst maintaining a rigorous academic underpinning. In particular, you will learn about corporate finance, investments, financial institutions and the vast array of sophisticated financial products traded in today’s global financial markets. Furthermore, you will develop the quantitative techniques needed to analyse, in depth, financial data and financial securities.

Year 1

In the first year, you will study five compulsory modules that provide the key fundamentals to examine and evaluate modern financial markets, including introductions to financial and management accounting, economics, finance and mathematics and statistics. These will be complimented by an optional module from the areas of business, global economics or foreign languages.

Year 2

In the second year, you will study three compulsory finance modules to allow you to be able to examine financial issues and the institutions, markets and securities that facilitate the vast array of financial transactions that occur continuously across global markets. Furthermore, you will acquire numerous quantitative tools which enable you to interpret financial data and price financial securities. The finance modules are complemented by one compulsory economics module – macro – and an optional module from the areas of law, accounting, tax or foreign languages.

Year 3

In the third year, you will study one compulsory finance module to develop skills in the theory and applications of investment and portfolio management. You will also complete a dissertation which will allow you to analyse, in great depth, your choice of research question in finance. You will also choose three optional modules to facilitate the development of your theoretical and empirical knowledge of core and topical issues in specific areas of finance, depending on your interests.

The course is founded in the disciplines of Finance and Economics and has significant application to practice whilst maintaining a rigorous academic underpinning.

Placement

You may be able to take a work placement. Find out more.