BSc Hons Accounting with Management

The BSc Hons Accounting with Management creates the opportunity to progress your studies within growing areas of professional services.

Response to Covid-19: Our focus is on providing a safe and welcoming learning environment for our students. We have taken every measure, in line with Government guidance, to ensure continued access to learning. As part of our response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we plan to deliver this course combining face-to-face, on-campus learning, with online learning activities, continuing to follow Government guidance and social distancing measures as required. As restrictions ease, face-to-face opportunities will be increased as appropriate and it is safe for us to do so. Our plans are based on public health advice and robust risk assessments and will be regularly reviewed and updated in that context.

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This course provides a comprehensive grounding in theory and practice, and an excellent foundation to becoming a Qualified Accountant. It also provides an opportunity to secure exemptions from all of the major Professional Accountancy Bodies, whilst keeping many options open to successful graduates to pursue other careers involving Accounting, Business and Finance.

You will have the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and insight in the following areas:

• The concepts and theories of accounting within a broad economic, legal, social and professional environment
• The basic principles of auditing, investment, finance, taxation and their implications for individuals, organisations, markets, societies and other disciplines
• Alternative recognition rules and valuation bases
• The recording, preparation, presentation and analysis of financial information
• Business and financial information, technology and systems, and professional ethics
• Linking theory to practice to encourage the highest professional standards in your professional lives and address UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development theme of ‘Accountability and Ethics’
• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of accounting data

The accounting and finance discipline challenges you to problem-solve and make decisions that consider the current and long-term future of the economy, society and ecology. This programme fundamentally requires you to be future-facing and to think of the consequences of actions.

There is a considerable demand for accountants in business, industry and the public sector. This degree provides you with an excellent basis for pursuing professional qualifications with one of the accountancy bodies.

Applicants require:

• GCSE grade C* in Mathematics, or international equivalent
• English entry requirements (if applicable): IELTS 6.0 with no component less than 5.5, or equivalent

And either:

• Grades BCC at A Level, or international equivalent (NARIC); or
• Merit profile in a UK accredited QCF/NQF Level 3 qualification worth 180 credits and/or 1060 Guided Learning Hours (as defined by Ofqual)

Typical career opportunities include:

• Public Practitioner providing audit, accountancy and taxation services
• Financial or Management Accountant in a large commercial enterprise or within central or local government
• Taxation Specialist
• Management Consultant or Educationalist
• Alternatively, you will be well equipped to proceed into a management career in business, industry or in the public sector