BSc (Hons) - Accountancy and Finance

Duration : 3 years

About The Course

Are you interested in joining the fast-paced world of international finance? Whether you dream of becoming an accountant, investment broker or financial advisor, this full-time degree will help equip you with the skills you’ll need to get your career off to a great start.

BSc (Hons) Accountancy and Finance scored 93% overall satisfaction and ranked in the top 20 in the UK. (National Student Survey 2020)

Taught by professionally qualified staff, including an international expert on Marx’s value theory, you will develop a strong understanding of the industry, and get opportunities to pursue valuable work experience in the real world.

You can engage with specific areas of finance that interest you, and explore both national and international markets to ensure a firm understanding of the global economy.

The curriculum itself has based on practical advice and real-life examples of working in the industry –helping prepare you for your future career, and keeping you up to date with the latest developments in this fast-moving industry. And you will also have the opportunity to undertake an optional one-year, full-time work placement between years two and three that will help you to relate your studies to the workplace and extend your network of contacts - getting first-hand experience in the world of work.

Core Modules - Year one

• Positive Psychology for Success
  Lay strong foundations for study and employment success. Build your academic, employability, and independent learning skills, and put together a personal professional development (PPD) plan to stay agile, adaptable, and future-ready.

• Data Analysis, Tools, and Application
  Explore how digital technology has fundamentally reshaped traditional business, and how businesses try to keep up. Learn to collect, analyze, and interpret data, and to present your findings effectively.

• Marketing, Sales, and Negotiation Skills
  Discover the critical role of marketing in business, from understanding customers’ motivations to engagement to measuring effectiveness. Learn key marketing concepts and terminology, explore digital and content marketing, and more.

• Accounting Skills
  A fundamental understanding of how systems and processes operate is essential for the accountant. This module teaches the basics of manual and computerized accounting, from double-entry book-keeping to various accounting packages, accounting controls, suspense accounts, payroll, and more.

• Introduction to Financial Reporting
  This module builds on the techniques developed in Accounting Skills, exploring accounting regulation and teaching you how to prepare key financial statements – income, financial position, and cash flow statements – for organizations large and small.

• Introduction to Management Accounting
  Management accounting provides financial and non-financial information that will help managers make good decisions. This module covers introductory aspects of accounting related to control and decision-making within business organizations, focusing on using relevant techniques to address various business management problems.

Core Modules - Year three

• The International Financial System
  This module investigates the international financial system. Including; how banks really work, how to manage the economy, how countries should relate to each other, and how developing countries can successfully develop.

• Advanced Management Accounting
  This module will provide you with a wide range of techniques to enable you as a future manager to make quality decisions.

• Corporate Financial Management
  This module focuses on a stock exchange quoted company and how corporate finance theories and practices can enhance performance. It takes an integrated view of how financing and investment decisions contribute to shareholders’ wealth creation.

• Advanced Financial Reporting
  Through this module, you will evaluate current financial reporting practices and information produced by listed companies, including groups.

Options

• International Financial Reporting and Analysis
  Keep up to date with financial reporting practices in an ever-changing global environment. Explore contrasts between regional accounting styles, and investigate challenges in business performance analysis across national boundaries.

• Current Audit Issues
  This module will explore the expectations placed on the auditor and consider whether they have failed in some cases.

• Taxation Practice
  Through this module, you will develop advanced practical tax planning skills. The focus will be on the interaction of the various taxes to provide tax planning solutions.

• Ecological Economics
  This module will consider the existing scientific understanding of climate change and other areas in this topic and the actions taken so far. It will also review and aim to understand the economics behind these actions.

Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

English language Requirements

Applicants who do not have English as their first language will be required to demonstrate an approved level of proficiency in the use of the English language. The agreed minimum requirements for this course are:

• IELTS minimum 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual component

• TOEFL IBT minimum 80 with a minimum of 20 in each individual component

• Duolingo English Language Test - 100 overall with a minimum of 90 in each component

• or equivalent.