Finance and Accounting - BSc (Hons)

Program Overview

This program focuses on combining theoretical and practical finance and accounting knowledge, providing a foundation for careers in auditing, financial reporting, and management accounting. It offers a structured pathway with exemptions from professional ACCA examinations, while fostering transferable skills in communication, enterprise, problem-solving, and quantitative analysis through diverse assessment methods and teaching approaches.

Program Outline

Outline:

Year 1

• Sustainable Business in the Contemporary Environment
• Academic and Professional Skills
• Business Planning
• Introduction to Financial Accounting

Year 2

• Financial Reporting for Business
• Taxation for Business
• Business and Corporate Law
• Sustainability in Career Development
• Managing Business Performance

Year 3

• Executing Business Strategy
• Financial Management in Organisations
• Financial Auditing
• Undergraduate Major Project (Finance and Accounting)

Assessment:

• Coursework
• Group assignments
• Activity-based assignments
• Exams
• Problem-solving activities
• Projects
• Online learning systems
• Personal Development Tutor Scheme
• Learning resources
• Wellbeing advisors and counsellors

Careers:

• Auditing
• Financial reporting
• Management accounting
• Financial services

Other:

• The program has been structured to provide the maximum possible number of exemptions (nine foundations papers in total) from the professional examinations of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
• The program combines theoretical and practical aspects of finance and accountancy.
• The program provides opportunities to develop transferable skills such as communication, enterprise, problem-solving, and quantitative analysis.

£9,250 UK students starting 2023/24 (full-time, per year) Both full-time and part-time students can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan. Part-time students should be studying more than a quarter (25% intensity) of a full-time course each year. You'll start repaying the loan in the April after you graduate. If you start a course on or after 1 August 2023, you won't repay anything until you earn more than £25,000. This is called repayment Plan 5. At this point, you'll repay 9% on everything you earn over £25,000. After 40 years (from the April after graduation), all remaining debt is wiped. If you started a course on or before 31 July 2023, you won't repay anything until you earn more than £27,295. This is called repayment Plan 2. At this point, you'll repay 9% on everything you earn over £27,295. After 30 years (from the April after graduation), all remaining debt is wiped. For example for students who are on repayment Plan 5: If you earn £25,500, you'll repay £45 a year or £3.75 a month That's because £25,500 is £500 above the threshold, and 9% of £500 is £45. What you repay depends on how much you earn after university. The more you earn, the more you pay back. This information also applies to: Irish nationals living in the UK or Ireland EU, EEA and Swiss nationals benefiting from citizens’ rights under the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement.