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Accounting and Finance
BA(Hons) Accounting and Finance (with Foundation Year) (Sandwich)
BA(Hons)  Accounting and Finance (with Foundation Year) (Sandwich)

BA(Hons) Accounting and Finance (with Foundation Year) (Sandwich)

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  • Level:5-Year Bachelor's Degree
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* sandwich year fee

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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

English requirements

  • IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).

Course Information

Why study accounting and finance

  • Sound financial decisions are at the core of every successful business, so demand for financially skilled and knowledgeable graduates is always high.
  • This BA(Hons) Accounting and Finance will provide you with the key knowledge and skills to access a wide range of career opportunities, as well as a variety of specialist options.

Why UWE Bristol

  • Your learning will be driven by real-world practice and current market innovations, giving you an excellent foundation for your future career. You'll develop technical skills in key aspects of accounting and finance, and practice applying these in authentic contexts.You'll gain core professional skills in sessions led by employers drawn from our strong business partnerships.
  • Based in our Bristol Business School, you'll benefit from purpose-built facilities, including interactive learning rooms and spaces for individual and group study. The Academic Success Centre will support your academic skills development at every stage of your course.
  • In our Bloomberg Trading Suite, you will explore and apply real-time financial data, and can gain the industry-recognised Bloomberg Certificate.
  • You can develop your entrepreneurial skills though the University enterprise competitions and Grand Challenge projects. Join a Business Clinic team and gain experience of providing pro-bono advice to small businesses and voluntary organisations.
  • This course shares a first year with our BSc(Hons) Accounting and BA(Hons) Accounting and Management, with full transferability between courses at the end of the first year.

Where can it take me

  • As a graduate with skills in accounting and broader areas of finance, you could pursue professional qualification or enter a wide range of careers in areas such as financial management, investment and business development.
  • You could choose to become an investment analyst, broker, portfolio manager, financial consultant or credit manager.
  • Or you may take the entrepreneurial route, and use your skills to develop financial innovations or digital technologies. The opportunities are many and varied.

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The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.

Year zero (foundation year)

You will study:

  • Becoming a Professional
  • Introduction to Organisations, Enterprise and Management 
  • Economics and Accounting for the Real World
  • Introduction to Law in a Social, Business and Global Context.

You usually need to pass your foundation year before going onto year one.

Year one

You will study:

  • Foundations of Financial Accounting
  • Introduction to Management Accounting
  • Economic Principles in CC
  • Essential Information Skills
  • Introduction to Managerial Finance
  • Statistics and Data Management
  • Professional Development for Accounting and Finance
  • Business Law.

Year two

You will study:

  • Financial Accounting  
  • Management Accounting and Decision Making 
  • Corporate Finance 
  • Governance and Taxation
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting
  • Applied Research Skills for AF.

Plus, two optional modules from: 

  • Market Analysis for Private Investors
  • Credit Management: Theory and Practice
  • Entrepreneurship and Small Business
  • Personal Financial Planning
  • Entrepreneurial Finance.

Placement year (if applicable)

If you study on the five year (sandwich) course, you'll spend a year away from the University on a work or study placement after Year two.  

Depending on which you choose, you'll either complete a placement learning or learning and development module.

See the Placements and Fees sections for more information.

Final year

You will study:

  • Strategic Project 
  • Financial Management
  • Business Strategy and Technology
  • Work Integrated Learning or Cross Cultural Learning and Development or Placement Learning.

Plus, three optional modules from:

  • Corporate Reporting Theory and Practice
  • Strategic Management Accounting
  • International Financial Management
  • Islamic Banking and Finance
  • Financial Crime
  • Investment Management
  • Credit Risk Analysis and Management
  • Financial Technology.
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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

There is high demand for graduates who understand finance and the role of strategic financial decision making in business success. This gives you a competitive place in the jobs market and opens up many career options.

This course makes an ideal launch pad for careers in investment, accountancy, banking, personal and corporate finance, in both private and public sector organisations.

Our students go on to financial roles in a wide range of sectors, working in  global investment houses and accounting firms, banks, stockbrokers, and major companies, as well as SMEs and business start-ups . 

Through the range of option pathways, you can gain specialist knowledge in areas such as private wealth management, corporate governance and credit management, further broadening your career choices.   

Recent graduates have secured roles with PWC, Ernst and Young, Hargreaves Lansdown, HSBC, Airbus, Lloyds Banking Group, Amazon and Intel.

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