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Accounting and Finance (with a professional placement year) BSc (Hons)
Accounting and Finance (with a professional placement year) BSc (Hons)

Accounting and Finance (with a professional placement year) BSc (Hons)

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  • Level:4-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirement

International Baccalaureate: 32-34 points overall from the full IB Diploma.

European Baccalaureate: Overall result of at least 77%- 80%

English requirements

IELTs: 6.5 overall, including at least 6.0 in each component

PTE: 62 overall, including at least 56 in all four skills.

Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English (CAE): 176 overall, including at least 169 in each skill

Orther Requirement

No

Course Information

Our accredited Accounting and Finance degree helps you achieve professional status faster. You’ll benefit from the latest industry knowledge combined with the practical skills to launch your career.

On this course you develop the knowledge needed for a successful career as well as professional membership of the accounting profession. You learn about the risks and interdependencies of the modern global economy. And you’ll gain practical skills through real-world problem-solving exercises including access to our Bloomberg Financial Markets Lab, supervised by academic and industry experts.

You’ll benefit from a solid grounding in the principles of business before focussing on corporate finance, financial institutions and markets, as well as more specific aspects of corporate and managerial accounting.

This degree also offers a wide range of options including leadership and entrepreneurship, so you can broaden your knowledge to boost your employability. You can also enrich your degree by spending time in the workplace or studying abroad.

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Year 1:

Core modules

Autumn teaching

  • Introduction to Business and Management

  • Introduction to Management Accounting

  • Introduction to Mathematics for Finance and Economics

  • Principles of Finance

Spring teaching

  • Introduction to Economics for Accountants

  • Introduction to Financial Accounting

  • Law for Accounting

  • Theory of Investments

Year 2: 

Core modules

Autumn teaching

  • Financial Institutions and Markets

  • Intermediate Financial Accounting

  • Statistics and Introductory Econometrics

Spring teaching

  • Accounting Information Systems

  • Corporate and International Finance

  • Intermediate Management Accounting

Options

Autumn teaching

  • International Business Environment

  • Leadership Foundations (LEAD)

  • Taxation

Spring teaching

  • Leveraging Human Capital and Performance (HRM)

  • Managing Projects and Technologies for Accounting and Marketing Students

  • Principles of Banking

Study abroad (optional)

Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career. Find out where your course could take you

Professional placement (optional)

You can apply to take a paid professional placement in the third year of your degree. Recent students have gone on placement at:

  • IBM

  • GSK (GlaxoSmithKline)

  • Hewlett Packard.

Year 3: 

Core modules

Autumn teaching

  • Advanced Management Accounting

  • Financial Accounting and Analysis

Spring teaching

  • Integrated Reporting

  • International Financial Management

Options

Autumn teaching

  • Advanced Taxation (UK)

  • Alternative Investment Funds

  • Blockchains and Crypto Assets

  • Entrepreneurship and Small Firms (ENT)

  • Financial Risk Management

  • Valuation of Companies and Cash Flow Generating Assets

Autumn and spring teaching

  • Empirical Finance Project

Spring teaching

  • Auditing

  • Business Strategy Report

  • Contemporary Issues in Accounting

  • Contemporary Issues in Banking

  • Financial Derivatives

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

Join the University of Sussex Business School and benefit from extensive career support and business connections, including mentoring by employers, networking, guest lectures and development of your workplace skills.

This course is ideal if you want to become a chartered accountant or financial analyst, and for careers in accountancy, finance and management, in both the public and private sector. Your degree opens employment opportunities worldwide because your professional accounting qualifications are recognised internationally.

You develop ethical awareness, independent thinking, leadership, self-confidence, and problem-solving and teamwork skills.

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Overseas Student Health Cover

Insurance - Single

NHS: 300 GBP

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