BSc Accounting and Finance (with study abroad)
Entry requirements
A level: AAB and a grade B/6 or above in GCSE Mathematics (if Mathematics is not studied at A-Level). IB: 35 to include 665 in higher-level subjects. If Mathematics is not taken at a higher level, then it is required at standard level 5.
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Accounting and Finance (with study abroad), a degree combining accounting and finance within a business context. Core topics include Accounting, Financial Analysis, Statistics, Data Analysis and Research Methods. The four-year programme includes a compulsory year abroad at a partner university, and several modules can lead to exemptions from ICAEW, ACCA, ICAS and CIMA professional examinations, depending on module choice and marks obtained. The first year builds foundations through Financial Accounting, Quantitative Methods, Foundations of Finance and Fundamentals of Management Accounting. Year two covers core accounting and finance practice with Management Accounting, Corporate Finance, Intermediate Financial Reporting and Intermediate Financial Economics, alongside Financial Econometrics 1 and Accounting Dissertation Preparation; students choose a dissertation-prep route aimed at either an accounting or a finance dissertation. Year three is spent studying abroad at a partner university. The final year pairs a compulsory Dissertation on an accounting or finance topic with optional modules such as Big Data Analytics, Corporate Governance, Behavioural Finance and Advanced Financial Reporting, alongside earlier optional choices including Business Law, Personal Taxation and Entrepreneurial Finance.
Modules
- Financial Accounting
- Quantitative Methods
- Fundamentals of Management Accounting
- Ethics and Sustainability in Accounting
- Introduction to Financial Economics
- Foundations of Finance
- Management Accounting
- Intermediate Financial Economics
- Corporate Finance
- Intermediate Financial Reporting
- Choose one of the following two modules:
- EITHER Financial Econometrics 1
- OR Accounting Dissertation Preparation
- Example optional modules
- Study abroad
- Dissertation
- Example optional modules