The BSc (Hons) Accounting & Financial Management is a 4-year course with Foundation Year taught across our London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester campuses.

Whether you’re interested in a career in accounting and financial management, or your aspiration is to launch and run your own successful business, numbers will be essential to your success. This degree programme will give you the foundations in all the latest principles, theories and applied practical skills in the exciting field of accounting and financial management.

Course overview

Please note that applications are now closed for our June 2024 intake. You can continue to apply for future intakes on this course.

Our industry-focussed programme delivers an accounting and finance degree that prepares you for a professional, managerial or business career. It will equip you with the highly-sought employability skills that employers are looking for, opening up opportunities for career progression and development.

Combining theoretical learning and practical knowhow, you’ll build knowledge on a wide range of accountancy and finance-related topics. These include financial reporting, managerial accounting, audit and assurance, taxation, law and corporate finance.

The Institute of Financial Accountants, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants offer graduates of this course exemptions when applying for membership.

The foundation year will prepare you for university-level study and introduce you to the key accounting and financial management contexts and concepts you’ll need to progress through the rest of the course.

Committing to study at degree level will give you transferrable skills that can be applied in any career context, whether that’s climbing the corporate ladder in the accounting and financial management world, or having an impact as an entrepreneur.

  • What insights into the world of work will grow your career prospects?
  • How do you manage accounting and financial requirements when running a business?
  • Which business principles and theories have the greatest financial impact?

Our accounting and financial management degree will give you the foundational and specific accounting and financial knowledge to build a successful career that matches your goals.

Course Curriculum

Year 0 (Foundation)

– Academic Skills for Higher Education (0 credits)
– Business and Ethical Awareness in the Financial Workplace (0 credits)
– Introduction to Communication and Digital Skills (0 credits)
– Introduction to Financial Accounting and Management (0 credits)
– Introduction to Management Accounting (0 credits)
– Foundation Year Project (0 credits)

Year 1

– Dynamic Business Environment (20 credits)
– Financial Accounting (20 credits)
– Fundamental of Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in Accounting and Financial Management (20 credits)
– Introduction to Business Accounting (20 credits)
– Management Accounting 1 (20 credits)
– Professional Accountant and IT Systems (20 credits)

Year 2

– Business and Corporate Law (20 credits)
– Corporate Governance & Leadership (20 credits)
– Financial Reporting (20 credits)
– Management Accounting 2 (20 credits)
– Performance Management (20 credits)
– Research Methods (20 credits)

Year 3

Mandatory Modules:

– Audit and Assurance (20 credits)
– Contemporary Issues in Accountings and Finance (20 credits)
– Financial Management (20 credits)
– UK Taxation (20 credits)

Option 1:
– Dissertation (40 credits)

Option 2:
– Business Ethics (20 credits)
– Research Project (20 credits)

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