Course overview

As an alternative to the Accountancy degree, this course gives you a variety of options to allow you to specialise in accounting and finance or to broaden your knowledge in a wider business context. It has a common first year with the BA (Hons) Accountancy degree which will allow you the possibility of transferring between courses.

Course content

Year 1  

• Fundamentals of Financial Reporting
• Introduction to Management Accounting
• Economics for Business
• Business and Academic Skills
• The Business Environment
• Essentials of Management

Year 2

 

• Financial Reporting
• Accounting for Performance
• Financial Management
• Monetary and Financial Systems
• 2 Options

 
Year 3  

• Corporate Financial Reporting
• Accounting for Decision Making
• Corporate Financial Management
• International Financial Systems
• 2 Options

Options

Audit, Law, Tax, Human Resources, Marketing

Assessment

Most units are assessed using course work and exams. Accounting units are weighted 50% coursework and 50% exams in order to fulfil exemption requirements.

Some options may be 40%/60% weighted and possibly 100% coursework based. 

Entry level

200 points of which 160 are from one 12-unit or two 6-unit awards OR BTEC National Diploma Merit Profile.

Career opportunities

Graduates from this course could look for careers in: accountancy – practice, business and public sector; finance – banking; or management. 

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