BSc (Hons) Accounting & Financial Management with Foundation Year

Our industry-focussed programme delivers an accounting and finance degree that prepares you for a professional, managerial or business career. It will equip you with the highly-sought employability skills that employers are looking for, opening up opportunities for career progression and development.

Combining theoretical learning and practical knowhow, you'll build knowledge on a wide range of accounting and finance-related topics. These include financial reporting, managerial accounting, audit and assurance, taxation, law and corporate finance.

The Institute of Financial Accountants, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants offer graduates of this course exemptions when applying for membership.

The foundation year will prepare you for university-level study and introduce you to the key accounting and financial management contexts and concepts you'll need to progress through the rest of the course.

Committing to study at degree level will give you transferrable skills that can be applied in any career context, from progressing in the accounting and financial management world, to having an impact as an entrepreneur. Graduates will be equipped with the skills and experience to answer strategic questions like these:

• What insights into the world of work will grow your career prospects?
• How do you manage accounting and financial requirements when running a business?
• Which business principles and theories have the greatest financial impact?

Our accounting and financial management degree will give you the foundational accounting and financial knowledge to build a successful career that matches your goals.

Upon successful completion of this course, graduates will be eligible for exemption from ACCA qualification modules, as follows:

• Business and Technology
• Management Accounting
• Financial Accounting
• Corporate and Business Law
• Performance Management 
• Taxation  
• Financial Reporting  
• Audit and Assurance  
• Financial Management 

Upon successful completion of the BSc (Hons) Accounting & Financial Management, students will be eligible to enter CIMA at Management Level, receiving 8 exemptions.