B.Sc. Accounting

All modules in each pathway of the BSc Hons Accounting (Pathways) are compulsory. The structure of the suite of pathways is such that you can delay choice between these four programmes until the second-year of study in the BSc Hons Accounting (Pathways). This flexibility provides you with the opportunity to experience subject areas, before making a choice between maintaining specialism in accounting or broadening interest to within financial economics / management.

Year 1

Subject areas including financial mathematics and statistics, financial accounting, management accounting and economics, are to establish the academic foundation for the second year of the programme with a professional skills-based module equipping you with the necessary academic and managerial awareness to enhance your learning and employability. The first-year of the programme is designed to help you make a choice of pathway through providing opportunities to experience each pathway area.

Year 2

In the second-year you will take four modules which develop knowledge and skills in the accounting subject including law, financial accounting, management accounting and personal and business finance. In second year, a career entrepreneurship module will further develop key communication skills and soft skills to enhance professional development and enterprise skills. The sixth module studied will be dependent on your chosen pathway. Students on the BSc Hons Accounting and BSc Hons Accounting (Forensic Services) pathways will complete a module on assurance and risk management. Students on the BSc Hons Accounting (Financial Economics) will complete a module on money and the economy and on the BSc Hons Accounting (Management Consulting) pathway a module on managing people.

Year 3

You will have the option of a paid placement year in a range of local and international locations. This will provide a link between the subjects you have studied and your application in a 'real world' setting. Satisfactory completion of the placement year will lead to the award of the Diploma in Professional Practice. You have also the option to study abroad for a year; satisfactory completion of a study abroad year will lead to the award of the Diploma in International Academic Studies.

Year 4

You will spend the final year developing your in-depth knowledge in your chosen pathway:

Students on the BSc Hons Accounting will complete final-year modules in: advanced financial accounting; advanced financial management; advanced management accounting; auditing; governance, risk and ethics; and modern taxation.

Students on the BSc Hons Accounting (Forensic Services) will complete final-year modules in: advanced financial accounting; advanced financial management; advanced management accounting; cyber-crime and forensic technology; forensic accounting; and personal and business taxation.

Students on the BSc Hons Accounting (Financial Economics) will complete final-year modules in: financial markets and institutes; advanced financial management; advanced management accounting; international finance; money, banking and other financial institutions; and personal and business taxation.

Students on the BSc Hons Accounting (Management Consulting) will complete final-year modules in: effective organisations; performance management; public sector accounting; strategic business planning; governance, risk and ethics; and personal and business taxation.