BSc Accounting and Finance
Entry requirements
A level: AAA BTEC: Applicants declaring a BTEC National Extended Diploma in Business or Enterprise and Entrepreneurship or Marketing must achieve Distinction* Distinction Distinction (an A-level is not required). IB: 35 points overall with 17 points from Higher Level subjects. Plus Mathematics can be met via a 5 at Standard Level or a 4 at Higher Level. English Language can be met via a 5 at Standard Level or Higher Level English A, or a 7 at Standard Level English B, or a 6 at Higher Level English B.
About this course
BSc in Accounting and Finance, an accounting and finance degree centred on quantitative and qualitative aspects of financial management and corporate systems. Core topics include Programming, Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Financial Analysis, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, and Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The course offers exemptions from main accountancy professional bodies and provides access to a trading room with Bloomberg Market Concepts training and live trading simulations. The first year covers core foundations through Statistics and Data Analytics for Finance, Introduction to Financial Accounting, Introduction to Management Accounting, and Economic Theory and Applications for Finance. The second year progresses into corporate evaluation and decision-making through Corporate Finance, Financial Econometrics, Financial Analytics for Decision Making, Intermediate Financial Accounting, and Intermediate Management Accounting, alongside optional choices such as Python Programming for Finance. The final year involves advanced study including Critical Cases in Accounting and Finance, with optional modules spanning Forensic Accounting and Finance, Behavioural Finance, Private Equity, and Auditing and Assurance Services, alongside an optional dissertation.
Modules
- Foundations of Finance
- Academic and Professional Development for Studies in Finance
- Statistics and Data Analytics for Finance
- Introduction to Financial Accounting
- Introduction to Management Accounting
- Economic Theory and Applications for Finance
- Mathematics and Statistics for Economics and Business 1A
- Foundations of Banking
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Econometrics
- Financial Analytics for Decision Making
- Intermediate Financial Accounting
- Intermediate Management Accounting
- From Study to Work
- Applied Credit Analytics
- Banks and Banking Systems
- Business and the Legal Environment
- Python Programming for Finance
- Leading and Managing Small Business
- Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice
- Managing Innovation in Business
- New Enterprise Planning
- Leadership Ethics
- Contemporary Industrial Relations
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Industrial Economics
- Mathematics for Business and Economics 2
- Business Economics
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Organisational Behaviour in Practice
- How Managers Make Decisions
- Evidence Based Consultancy
- Critical Cases in Accounting and Finance
- Dissertation for Accounting, Banking and Finance or Financial Analysis
- Advanced Financial Accounting or Contemporary Issues in Accounting
- Private Equity
- Forensic Accounting and Finance
- Behavioural Finance
- Financial Derivatives
- Auditing and Assurance Services
- International Business Finance
- Principles of Taxation
- Advanced Finance
- Advanced Portfolio Management
- Contemporary Issues in Banking
- Enterprise Consultancy
- Critical Perspective in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
- Innovation in Practice for Change and Impact
- Gender and Equality at Work in Comparative Perspective
- Diversity Management
- Business Ethics
- Sustainable Business Futures: Policy and Practice
- Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
- Advanced Microeconomics
- Advanced Macroeconomics
- Environmental Economics
- Modern Theories of Money and Monetary Policy
- The Political Economy of Work
- Economics of Business and Corporate Strategy
- Contemporary Issues in Strategy
- International Business Management
- Leadership in Organisations