BSc Accounting and Finance (Professional) – Talent Track Degree Programme
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 Accounting and Finance (Professional) – Talent Track Degree Programme, an accounting and finance (professional) – talent track degree programme degree in the field of Accounting and Finance (Professional) – Talent Track Degree Programme. Core topics include Programming, Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Financial Analysis, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. The four-year course includes paid internships in years 1, 2, and 4, an extended placement in year 3, and professional mentoring delivered in partnership with Grant Thornton. The first year covers core subjects through Foundations of Finance, Introduction to Financial Accounting, Introduction to Management Accounting, and Economic Theory and Applications for Finance. The second year introduces Corporate Finance, Financial Econometrics, Financial Analytics for Decision Making, Intermediate Financial Accounting, and Intermediate Management Accounting. Optional modules in year 2 allow students to explore topics such as Python Programming for Finance and Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice. The final fourth year features compulsory study in Critical Cases in Accounting and Finance, alongside optional modules covering areas like Advanced Financial Accounting, Private Equity, and Auditing and Assurance Services. Students may also undertake the Dissertation for Accounting, Banking and Finance.
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
- Business Economics
- Intermediate Microeconomics
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Organisational Behaviour in Practice
- How Managers Make Decisions
- Evidence Based Consultancy
- Critical Cases in Accounting and Finance
- Advanced Financial Accounting
- Dissertation for Accounting, Banking and Finance
- Contemporary Issues in Accounting
- Financial Analysis
- 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 Thinking and Practice
- 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
- Strategic Managemen t
- International Business Management
- Leadership in Organisations