Accounting and Financial Management
Bachelor's degree
In Cheltenham
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Cheltenham
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Duration
3 Years
To give students a firm foundation for a career in an accountancy/finance, or broader business environment and will enable them to make an immediate and effective contribution to the organisation for which you work. Suitable for those who know they want to specialise in this area, and provides a sound basis for any career in business.
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About this course
* Undergraduates have a huge variety of qualifications, including A-levels, BTEC National Certificates or Diplomas, NVQ Level 3, and International Baccalaureate Diplomas.
* If you don't have the minimum requirements, you may be eligible for entry based on your life or work experience, usually following an interview.
* Points for Degree: 260 using the UCAS Tariff system.
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Course programme
BA Accounting and Financial Management
Mode: full-time
Honours Degree
Accounting and financial professionals occupy some of the most senior management, and finance posts in industry and commerce. A degree in this area offers graduates the opportunity either to ‘fast-track’ their professional accountancy qualification, or to embark on a career in business, secure in the knowledge that their specialist skills of accounting and finance makes them extremely marketable.
Throughout your degree you’ll cover a range of specialist accounting and finance topics and also a number of modules which set accounting and finance into a wider business context. A variety of teaching and assessment methods are used to facilitate personal development and to reflect the vocational nature of your studies. If you take the degree+ route, you have the opportunity to spend your third year in a paid work placement. A number of high profile accountancy-related placements in companies such as IBM, Sony, Marks & Spencer and Xerox, as well as in accountancy practices ranging from small local and regional firms to the Big Four accounting practices, are available each year.
Degree
You have the opportunity with degree+ to work for a year on a paid placement that counts as part of your studies. When you graduate, you’ll be more employable and likely to receive a higher starting salary.
Some of our modules
- Management Accounting
- Financial Accounting
- Business Law
- Financial Economics
- Role of Stock Markets
- Taxation
- Audit
Benefits
- significant exemptions from the ACCA and CIMA professional accountancy qualifications
- accreditation of prior learning enabling those with the Association of Accounting Technicians qualification to fast-track their degree studies
- a dedicated team of professionally qualified tutors with significant practice and industry experience
- providing vocationally relevant teaching
Career paths
- practice with an accounting firm, specialising in corporate finance, auditor taxation
- industry, specialising in either finance or management
- financial services
Are there any placements for this course?
Optional placement in the third year.
How will the course be assessed?
Presentations, group work, ‘real-life’ simulations and practical tasks involving projects with real businesses, traditional essays and examinations.
Accounting and Financial Management