Accounting and Finance BSc Honours (N402/N404) - London campus

Our degrees are divided into stages. Each stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each stage.

Modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

• LAC1010 Introduction to Financial Accounting
• LAC1011 Introduction to Management Accounting and Finance
• LAC1012 Professional Skills for Accounting and Finance
• LEC1017 Introductory Economics
• LBU1001 Introduction to Management and Organisation
• LLA1054 Introduction to Business Law

• LAC2002 Managerial and Business Economics
• LAC2003 Financial Control
• LAC2005 Intermediate Financial Accounting
• LAC2007 Corporate Finance
• LAC2020 Auditing
• LAC2021 Understanding Company Accounts

Between Stages two and three, you have the option to spend a full academic year on a work placement with an approved organisation.

While on placement you will complete the following modules:

• LAC3010 Intercalating Year Personal Learning Record
• LAC3011 Intercalating Year Reflective Learning Account

• LAC3001 Financial Accounting
• LAC3002 Management Accounting
• LAC3006 International Financial Management
• LAC3004 Derivative Markets
• LAC3009 Taxation in Accounting
• LAC3016 Accounting, Organisations and Society

This is a new degree programme so we do not have any graduate destination information yet from our London campus degrees.

However, you can see what our recent Newcastle campus graduates went on to do and view graduate destinations statistics. These statistics are based on what graduates were doing on a specific date, approximately six months after graduation. The most recent data available is for graduates who completed their course in 2013/14.

The destination data is available in varying levels, beginning with the University and moving through Faculty and School down to individual course reports. This final level may give you some useful ideas about possible options after your course or a course you are considering.

Newcastle University enjoys a good reputation for producing highly employable graduates. Many of our graduates go on to train as chartered accountants. However, this degree can also lead to a wide choice of other career options, such as finance or general management. A high proportion of the CEOs of FTSE 100 companies are accountants by training.

The combination of expert knowledge and personal and professional skills you learn on this degree provides you with a good foundation for the future.

You will learn technical skills and gain knowledge related to:

• accounting
• finance
• economics
• law

Our degree also helps you develop the key skills employers are looking for, such as:

• communication skills
• the ability to work in a team
• personal enterprise
• commercial awareness

A variety of careers in business and industry are open to you, and you will be well placed if applying to graduate training schemes.

Graduates in accounting and finance do not have to become accountants, although in practice many do.

A professional accounting qualification can open the door to a wide range of senior positions - a high proportion of the chief executive officers of FTSE-100 companies are accountants by training.

Some graduates choose to go on to further study and there are plenty of postgraduate degrees available at Newcastle University.

Find out more about the career options for Accounting and Finance from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.