Accounting and Business Management BA (Hons)

De Montfort University

Bachelor's degree

In Leicester

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Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Years

More than ever the world needs flexible and prepared thinkers, ready to build financially robust businesses that are able to deal with the unexpected and cope in a crisis. This joint honours degree will build on strong analytical skills, exploring the economics of markets such as money, capital, derivatives and foreign exchange, and the theory of modern finance in business.

Choose from a range of modules throughout your course, such as Crisis and Business Continuity Management, where you will learn to analyse vulnerabilities and deal with simulated business interruptions. Explore the top-level decision making in managing the direction and impact of organisations with modules on Management and Strategy.

The opportunity to grow a deep understanding of accounting through the join honours degree will enable you to appraise the role of accounting in society. Appreciate and critically analyse financial decisions taken by organisations, and the standards, laws, rules and regulations that qualified accountants must abide by.

Throughout the course we will expand your understanding of business concepts, ideas, models and methods, with strong focus on strategic management. This valuable expertise will help you to stand out in roles in corporations, finance, and the civil service, in the competitive business world.

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Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

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About this course

A degree in Accounting and Business Management opens a wide range of career opportunities as you develop a broad base of skills that are in great demand with employers.

You may choose to specialise in a discipline that you enjoyed studying on the programme such as management, business or accounting.

Previous graduates have progressed to careers at Red Bull, KPMG, PepsiCo, Grant Thornton and Barclays.

A typical offer is 104 UCAS points. You need to study at least two subjects at A Level or equivalent (eg BTEC)
Five GCSEs at grades A–C including English Language and Maths
Pass Access with 30 Level 3 credits at Merit (or equivalent)

English (Language or Literature) and Maths GCSE required as separate qualifications at grade C

We will normally require students to have had a break from full time education before undertaking the Access course

International Baccalaureate: 24+ Points

Leicester Castle Business School is accredited by the professional accountancy bodies Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).

This Joint Honours option allows graduates to gain certain exemptions from professional accounting body exams (ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW/CIPFA). However, if you wish to maximize your entitlement to professional body exemptions, you should consider studying our Accounting and Finance BA (Hons) course.

The number of exemptions awarded will be dependent on the programme and modules selected.

You will have the opportunity to gain exemptions from some professional accountancy exams with the ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW and CIPFA, subject to optional module choices and any module specific criteria, which gives you a great start towards gaining your professional qualification.
Gain a practical insight into markets and trading with our  Trading Room, which gives you access to industry standard software to analyse share prices and company performance.
Our exciting careers programme DMU Works will help you to gain placement opportunities with local, national and global companies, previous students have secured placements at VW, Microsoft, Bosch, IBM, Pfizer, HSBC and Siemens.
Our graduates have gone on to careers in globally renowned organisations. Recent successes include PwC, Vauxhall, Marks and Spencer, News UK, PepsiCo and BP and many more.
Expand your horizons with international experiences linked to your studies through our  DMU Global  programme. Students have visited Copenhagen, Berlin, San Diego and Toronto. Recent visits to Bloomberg in New York gave students a valuable insight into the development of the Bloomberg trading system.

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Subjects

  • Accounting and Finance
  • Joint
  • Accredited
  • ACCA
  • Teaching
  • Corporate Finance
  • Strategic Management
  • Taxation
  • IT Law
  • Business and Management
  • Access
  • Trading
  • International
  • Global
  • Finance
  • Financial
  • Law
  • Industry
  • Financial Training

Course programme

Year 1
  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Professional Communications
  • Understanding Business
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Introduction to Law
Year 2
  • Management and Strategy
  • Performance Measurement in Organisations
Plus option modules from the following indicative list:
  • Progressive Franchising
  • Financial Markets and Institutions
  • Organisational Management
  • People Management
  • Corporate Finance
  • Business Taxation
  • Business Intelligence Using Excel
  • Global Issues in Strategic Financial Planning*
  • Business Research Issues
  • European Business Issues
Year 3
  • Contemporary Business Issues
Plus option modules from the following indicative list:
  • Crisis and Business Continuity Management
  • Strategy and Management Dissertation
  • Global Strategic Management
  • Public Sector Accounting and Finance
  • Forensic Accounting
  • Managerial Development and Control
  • Audit and Assurance
  • International Developments in Accounting
  • Advanced Corporate Taxation
  • Advanced Corporate Finance
  • Accounting and Finance Project
  • Governance and Sustainability
  • Global Corporate Accounting
  • Reflective Business Practice
Teaching and assessment

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) and usually an exam or test, which is typically weighted as follows in your first year:
  • Exam: 47%
  • Coursework: 53%
These assessment weightings are indicative only. The exact weighting may vary depending on option modules chosen by students and teaching methods deployed by the academic member of staff each year. Indicative assessment weighting and assessment type per module are shown as part of the module information. Again these are based on the current academic session.

Teaching contact hours

This is a full-time course and in total you should be prepared to devote approximately 38 hours a week to your studies. In the first year, you will typically have up to 14 contact hours of teaching most weeks. Teaching is through a mix of lectures, tutorials, seminars and lab sessions and the breakdown of these activity types is shown in each module description.

Other: In addition each module provides a two hour surgery each week for individual consultation with the lecturer. You will also have timetabled meetings with your personal tutor and careers and/or subject meetings scheduled throughout the year.

Self-directed study: In order to prepare for, and assimilate, the work in lectures and seminars you will be expected to use our on-line resources, participate in flipped or virtual classroom discussions on our virtual learning environment (VLE) and engage in personal study and revision for approximately 25 hours per week.

Subsequent years follow a similar pattern, however, the contact time will vary depending on your subject mix and options chosen, and the teaching methods appropriate to the module. Further details are contained in each module description.

Additional information

UCAS course code: NN14

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Accounting and Business Management BA (Hons)

£ 7,924.94 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

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