BA in Accounting and Finance

Throughout BA Accounting and Finance, you’ll study a breadth and depth of accounting and finance subjects giving you the opportunity to take your knowledge to a new level. Areas of study may include accounting information, the legal, regulatory and social context within which accounting operates.

What’s more, if you choose the relevant modules, you may gain exemption from some of the ACA, ACCA and CIMA examinations once you’ve completed your degree. Just another small step that will help make your way up the career ladder a little easier.

Flexibility – subject to optional module choice and successful completion of your first year – it may be possible to change your degree path to either Accounting and Management or Finance. (Students who require a Tier 4 visa will need to check this in advance with the Tier 4 regulations which are in place at the time).

Year 1

In the first year, compulsory modules will provide you with the key fundamentals to examine and evaluate modern financial markets. These include:

• Introduction to Financial Accounting
• Introduction to Management Accounting
• Foundations of Finance
• Introduction to Economics
• Quantitative Methods

A further optional module will be chosen from a range which has in the past include:

• Business Environment and Functions
• The Global Economy
• A foreign language

Year 2

In the second year, compulsory modules investigate:

• Auditing and Assurance
• Corporate Financial Reporting
• Corporate Finance
• Management Accounting

You also choose two optional modules from a selection which have in the past have covered, for example:

• Principles of Business Law
• Macroeconomics and International Finance
• Microeconomics for Finance
• Introduction to Financial Econometrics
• Financial Markets and Institutions
• A foreign language

Year 3

Moving to a more research-led teaching orientation in the third year, you are required to produce a double module Dissertation in any of the accounting and finance areas, such as financial accounting, management accounting, auditing or finance. Additionally, you will study two compulsory modules exploring:

• Financial Planning and Control
• Contemporary Issues in Corporate Reporting

And choose two modules from a large selection covering business and finance options. Subjects covered in previous years have included, for example:

• Corporate Governance
• Security Investment Analysis
• International and Multinational Finance
• Financial Engineering
• Behavioural Finance
• Corporate Responsibility
• Financial Econometrics
• Strategic Management
• Islamic Economics and Finance
• A foreign language

We review course structures and core content (in light of e.g. external and student feedback) every year and will publish finalized core requirements for 2019 entry from September 2018.

Options Available:-

• 4 Year With Foundation Year
• 4 Year With Study Abroad