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In general, international applicants will need to have achieved an overall IELTS grade of 6.0 with a minimum score of 5.5 in each component.
This multi-accredited accounting and finance degree offers you the chance to develop and practise your technical knowledge, skills and expertise, while gaining professional recognition from the world’s leading accountancy bodies.
Topics include financial reporting, management accounting, corporate finance, taxation, audit, and computerised accounting systems. You will also have the chance to gain a CIMA-accredited certificate in Sage, which is the UK’s biggest accounting software provider.
The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) has fully accredited this Accounting degree, so you can gain up to the maximum exemptions from a professional qualification when you graduate.
We are a recognised Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) 'Partner in Learning' and, depending on your module choices, you can gain exemptions from ICAEW, with further exemptions offered towards the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants (CIPFA) examinations. This course is also available through Network75, a combined work and study route.
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Year One - Accounting degree
Your first year includes the core disciplines of financial accounting, management accounting, an introduction to finance, quantitative techniques for accounting, the business environment, and business and corporate law. Modules studied:
Financial Accounting
Introductory Management Accounting
The Business Environment for Accountants
Business and Corporate Law
Quantitative Methods for Accounting and Finance
Introduction to Finance
Year Two - Accounting degree
Year two studies include financial reporting, performance measurement and control, audit and assurance, taxation, an introduction to financial management and a specialist employability module where you will develop your Excel spread-sheet skills, work on some of the softer skills that employers require and benefit from an impressive range of guest speakers.
You can also gain the CIMA accredited Sage Accounting Certificate. For students who do not have prior relevant work experience, the employability module incorporates a 70-hour work placement that will allow you to become instantly more employable, learning both profession-specific as well as more general work-related skills.
Modules studied:
Financial Reporting
Management Accounting and Performance Measurement
Fundamentals of Financial Management
Taxation
Auditing and Assurance
Professional Practice and Employability in Accounting & Finance
Year Three - Accounting degree
The final year explores advanced aspects of accounting and has specialist optional modules, including forensic accounting and the theory and practice of securities trading, where you can use our simulation trading room on campus.
Core modules include:
Advanced Financial Reporting
Global Governance, Risk and Ethics
Business Analysis for Accountants
Accounting Research
You can also choose to undertake a further two modules from the following list:
Advanced Management Accounting
Theory and Practice of Securities Trading
Cases in Audit
Principles of Forensic Accounting
Introduction to Islamic Finance
Option availability will be subject to student demand
Accountancy careers offer great salaries, travel opportunities and the chance to work your way to the top. All kinds of financial careers will be available to graduates with an accounting and finance degree, in all kinds of organisations. You could work in management or financial accounting, tax-related work or management consultancy. Accounting and finance is an ideal foundation for senior management roles, or even starting your own business.
To give you a head start following graduation the University organises an annual employability conference for its accounting students. Previous attendees have included PwC, Eversheds, JK Accountancy, Civitas Law and Watkins & Gunn.
Insurance - Single: 300GBP/ year
