About the Courses
There is high demand for graduates who understand finance and the role of strategic financial decision making in business success. This gives you a competitive place in the jobs market and opens up many career options.
This course makes an ideal launch pad for careers in investment, accountancy, banking, personal and corporate finance, in both private and public sector organisations.
Our students go on to financial roles in a wide range of sectors, working in global investment houses and accounting firms, banks, stockbrokers, 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 private wealth management, corporate governance and credit management, further broadening your career choices.
Recent graduates have secured roles with PWC,
There is high demand for graduates who understand finance and the role of strategic financial decision making in business success. This gives you a competitive place in the jobs market and opens up many career options.
This course makes an ideal launch pad for careers in investment, accountancy, banking, personal and corporate finance, in both private and public sector organisations.
Our students go on to financial roles in a wide range of sectors, working in global investment houses and accounting firms, banks, stockbrokers, 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 private wealth management, corporate governance and credit management, further broadening your career choices.
Recent graduates have secured roles with PWC, Ernst and Young, Hargreaves Lansdown, HSBC, Airbus, Lloyds Banking Group, Amazon and Intel.
Modules
Year one
You'll study:
Business Law
Economic Principles in a Contemporary Context
Essential Information and Academic Skills
Foundations of Financial Accounting
Introduction to Management Accounting
Introduction to Managerial Finance
Management and Professional Development for Accounting and Finance
Statistics and Data Management.
Year two
You'll study:
Applied Research Skills in Accounting and Finance
Corporate Finance
Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting and Reporting
Management Accounting and Decision Making.
Plus, three optional modules from:
Credit Management: Theory and Practice
Entrepreneurial Finance
Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Governance and Accountability
Market Analysis for Private Investors
Personal Financial Planning
Principles of Taxation
Race, Inequality and Justice - An Interdisciplinarty Perspective.