BSc Accounting and Finance
Bradford University
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Our Accounting and Finance degree gives you the opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of how accounting and finance fits in to the broader context of business and management.
It is accredited by major professional accounting bodies. This means that, by successfully completing your degree, you are eligible for exemptions from their professional examinations - a major advantage on your journey to qualifying as a professional accountant.
If you attend lectures and tutorials and perform well on the course, you may be eligible for one of the prizes offered by the accounting profession to our best accounting and finance students.
There is also the option to combine your subject with a language to make yourself more attractive to employers or to study abroad at one of our partner institutions for Semester 2 of your 2nd year.
Description
COURSE DETAILS
In the first year, you study compulsory modules designed to give you a good grounding in the disciplines required by a modern manager.
Our undergraduate courses in Business and Management Studies, Marketing, Accounting and Finance, International Business and Management, Human Resource Management and Operations and Information Management share a common first year, so you can switch between them at the end of the first year, subject to satisfactory performance.
In the second and final year, you go on to combine compulsory accounting and finance-themed modules with the choice of a list of optional specialist modules which allows you to design a programme of study to suit your needs and interests.
Assessment largely involves a combination of coursework assessments and formal examinations held at the end of each semester. Your first-year assessments aim to measure your progress; the assessments that count towards the classification of you degree are held in the second and final years.
MODULE DETAILS
Compulsory modules in the first year
- Business Economics (20 credits)
- Introduction to Accounting and Finance (20 credits)
- Foundations of Marketing (20 credits)
- People, Work and Organisations (20 credits)
- Operations and Information Systems Management (20 credits)
- Quantitative Methods in Information Management
- Student Self Development
Compulsory modules in the second year
- Business Law
- Financial Accounting (20 credits)
- Management Accounting (20 credits)
- Employability and Enterprise Skills (20 credits)
- Capital Markets, Investment and Finance
- Company Law and Administration
- Economics of Industry
- Financial Management
Compulsory modules in the final year
- Contemporary Issues in Accounting
- Corporate Reporting
- International Finance
- Auditing (20 credits)
- International Accounting
- Taxation (20 credits)
Elective modules, choose one in the second year and four in the final year of a 3-year course or three in the final year of a 4-year course, from a list of 50 covering the specialist areas of
- Accounting
- Financial Management
- Marketing
- Psychology
- Production and Operations Management
- Human Resource Management
- Information Management and Business Information Systems
There are also multidisciplinary modules on subjects such as International Business and Strategic Management.
ACCREDITATION
Our Accounting and Finance degree gives you the opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of how accounting and finance fits in to the broader context of business and management.
By successfully completing your degree, you are eligible for some exemptions from professional examinations – a major advantage on your journey to qualifying as a professional accountant.
STUDENT PLACEMENTS
All our 4 year programmes offer you the opportunity to take a year's work placement in industry during the third year of the course, and this is assessed as 20 credits of your degree. Placements are real, paid jobs in a wide variety of organisations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors and offer you a valuable opportunity to experience firsthand how business and management concepts are applied in practice and to give you direct exposure to real issues in the workplace.
The placement year is a vital part of your learning and will add significantly to your personal development, self confidence, planning, communication and business acumen skills. Statistics show that students who have undertaken a placement year benefit from a better graduate job, higher graduate starting salary and a better degree outcome.
In a competitive graduate market, valuable experience and employability skills gained from a year’s work placement will differentiate you from the thousands of other graduates seeking work. We find that students return from their placement year with their confidence and personal skills enhanced and ready to implement their focused plan for the future.
The School has an excellent network of organisations that offer placements including IBM, Vauxhall, NHS, GE Money, Pace, Enterprise Rent A Car, Cummins and Peugeot. Together we ensure your placement is appropriately challenging and that you can make a real and positive impact on the business.
Your experience will be monitored and assessed through a credit bearing work based learning module that will count towards your final degree. This module is portfolio based and will develop your ability to reflect on professional work related experiences and recognise the impact on your career development planning.
Placements are not guaranteed, and students will have to invest considerable time and effort in their 2nd year in securing one, with the support of the dedicated Careers team.
STUDY ABROAD
There are opportunities for School of Management undergraduate students to study abroad. This is usually in their 2nd year of studies.
FEES
£9,000 (UK/EU)
£11,000 (Overseas)
DURATION
3 years OR 4 years with a placement year
STUDY MODE
Full-time
Requirements
UCAS CODES
N420 BSc/AF (three-year programme)
N421 BSc/AF4 (four-year programme)
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
300 points
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