BA Honours Accounting and Finance

Our degree is flexible, enabling you to tailor your studies to support your career ambitions, while developing a set of transferable skills to underpin career success. Set in the context of the contemporary business environment, you will explore key accounting and management topics and gain a solid grounding in accounting and financial management concepts and also learn how they should be applied.

Why Study BSc Honours Business Accounting?

• Degree is tailored so that students receive a number of exemptions from the professional body examinations including the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
• Internship opportunities available through the Careers and Employability Service.
• Option to transfer to London campus.*

* Subject to prevailing UK visa regulations

Advantages of Studying BSC Honours Business Accounting

• Opportunity to interact with finance professionals in discourse sessions and guest lectures
• Information session with accounting and finance professional bodies on campus
• Get exemptions from ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW
• Opportunity to start ACCA while studying
• Opportunity to gain SAGE CIMA certification in Year 1
• We cover the cost for you to become CIMA Student Members
• Opportunity to learn accounting and finance software to enhance employability

Future Career and Employment

A Business Accounting degree opens the doors to a range of careers, many with excellent progression routes and competitive salaries. Our graduates progress into a wide range of public and private sector organisations, across areas such as: audit and assurance, taxation, insolvency and corporate finance; as well as working in other functional areas such as human resource management, sales and marketing, and operations, which require knowledge of accounting. You can also go on to further study on courses such as our MSc Investment Management and MSc Banking and Finance.