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BA(Hons) Accounting and Business Management (Full-time)
BA(Hons) Accounting and Business Management (Full-time)

BA(Hons) Accounting and Business Management (Full-time)

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  • Level:3-Year Bachelor's Degree
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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 management

  • Effective financial and strategic management skills are highly sought after in business, and combined expertise will help you stand out in the graduate marketplace.

Why UWE Bristol

  • The BA(Hons) Accounting and Management will prepare you to take on key management roles where your financial acumen will give you a valuable additional perspective.
  • Teaching balances technical accounting with management theory and practice, so you'll learn to manage effectively and make sound strategic and business and financial decisions.
  • Through regular guest speakers and employer partnerships, your learning is led by industry best practice and current innovations, so you're all set to enter practice in the real world.
  • In our Bristol Business School, you'll benefit from purpose-facilities which include interactive learning rooms and spaces for individual and group study.
  • You'll explore and apply real-time financial data in our Bloomberg Trading Suite, and attain the industry-recognized Bloomberg Certificate. At every stage of the course you'll be able to access academic skills support from the Academic Success Centre.
  • 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 Finance, with full transferability between courses at the end of the first year.

Where can it take me

  • A sound financial grounding combined with effective management knowledge and skills will prepare you for leadership roles in a range of business and industry environments.
  • You might go on to join a graduate management training scheme in a major corporation, or decide to pursue professional qualifications in accounting or finance, or start your own business.

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Content

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

Year one

You will study:

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

Year two

You will study:

  • Management Accounting and Decision Making 
  • Managing People
  • Elements of Management Practice in AF 
  • Applied Research Skills for AF.

Plus, two optional modules from:

  • Corporate Finance 
  • Financial Accounting
  • Personal Financial Planning
  • Entrepreneurial Finance.

Plus, two optional modules from:

  • International Business
  • Operations and Business Systems
  • Good Business, Bad Business and Sustainability
  • Digital Business Management
  • Design Thinking.

Placement year (if applicable)

If you study on the four 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
  • Work Integrated Learning or Cross Cultural Learning and Development or Placement Learning
  • Business Strategy and Technology 
  • Managing Organisational Change
  • Strategic Management Accounting.

Plus, two optional modules from:

  • Virtual Business
  • Financial Management
  • Islamic Banking and Finance
  • Credit Risk Analysis and Management.
  • Investment Management
  • Financial Crime
  • International Financial Management
  • Organisational Leadership
  • Business Innovation and Growth
  • Sustainable business
  • Project management.
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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

There is high demand for graduates with leadership and management skills. The added knowledge of finance and strategic decision-making gives you a further competitive edge, opening up many career options.

This course makes an ideal launch pad for careers in management roles with a financial emphasis, or more broadly into investment, accountancy, banking and personal and corporate finance roles.

Our students go on to management and financial roles in a wide range of sectors, working in investment and accounting firms, banks 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 sustainability, leadership, entrepreneurship, private wealth management, and credit management.

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

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