Course summary

The world needs accountants and finance professionals who can make informed strategic choices for businesses that enable them to grow and survive in a competitive market. This course provides you with the skills to make these investment decisions across a range of business environments. This degree gives you the understanding and skills to record, classify, summarise, interpret and communicate financial information while you help a business to follow correct accounting standards and comply with the law. Studying in a simulated business environment you explore business practice from regulatory and risk management issues to how financial markets operate and what makes them crash. Units include corporate governance; data analysis; auditing; and taxation. The course is accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Association of International Accountants. Why choose this course?

• It has a high overall student satisfaction rating of 95%

• Learn about both the power and limitations of accountancy and its financial techniques and how these impact on areas under the wider business umbrella

• Explore contemporary issues in accounting or finance through your supervised research dissertation

• ACCA awards exemptions from its F1 to F9 papers if you successfully complete relevant course units – the maximum ACCA exemptions available at undergraduate level

• Successfully completing relevant course units also makes you eligible for exemptions from the AIA’s Foundation level and Professional level 1 papers

• Acquire transferable professional skills in communication problem-solving teamwork and leadership

• Develop your interest in specialist areas with the opportunity to progress to Masters’ level

• If you need to step up into higher education start with a Foundation Year which guarantees entry to the degree course

• Joel Koj BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance