Accounting and Management with Business Placement-BA
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Bachelor's degree
In Durham
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
Durham
The BA Accounting and Management is designed to give you the same strong foundation of knowledge as our other finance and accounting programmes, while also offering the opportunity to develop particular expertise in management. General areas of study may include accounting information; the legal, regulatory and social context within which accounting operates and the design and operation of information systems. Management specific topics may include entrepreneurship, marketing principles, and managing in a global environment. What’s more, if you choose the relevant modules, you may be exempt from some of the ACA, ACCA and CIMA examinations once you’ve completed your degree. Just another small step that’ll help make your way up the career ladder a little easier. Flexibility – it may be possible to change your degree path to either Accounting and...
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Admissions Process Subject requirements, level and grade In addition to satisfying the University’s general entry requirements, please note: We require AAB from A-levels. We consider all A-level subjects, with the exception of General Studies – therefore General Studies would not be included in any offer. For all Business, Marketing, Accounting and Finance degrees a strong proficiency in Mathematics is required. If Mathematics is not taken as an A-level subject a grade A in Mathematics at GCSE is required. We consider each application...
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A good university with many options to study
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The university boasts of a historical campus and has amazing transport links. It could, however, work on improving Student Union.
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It's disgusting that a lot of hype gets created when you apply for a shared room so as to match you with a perfect roommate.
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Subjects
- Accounting
- Accounting MBA
- IT Management
- Management
- Finance
- University
- Financial
- Skills and Training
- Financial Training
- School
- Business School
- Global
- Information Systems
Course programme
In the first year you will study six compulsory modules which are:
- Introduction to Financial Accounting
- Introduction to Management Accounting
- People, Management and Organisations
- Foundations of Finance
- Introduction to Economics
- Quantitative Methods.
The second year consists of four compulsory modules:
- Auditing and Assurance
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Financial Reporting
- Management Accounting
Plus two optional modules selected from a range which have previously included:
- Information Systems
- Managing in a Global Environment
- Principles of Business Law
- Introduction to Taxation
- A Foreign Language.
All of our degrees offer you the option of spending your third year gaining practical experience on a business placement. Business placements are a great way to develop your employment marketability and to engage with employers early in their recruitment pipeline. We actively encourage you to explore this as an option within your degree. A placement requires a minimum of forty weeks of work experience, normally, between the beginning of July one year and the end of July the next year, and this then effectively becomes the third year of a four-year degree programme. This allows you to really explore and understand your job and to find out if the career or company is for you.
- You will develop your practical skills, confidence and maturity.
- You can focus on a specific career path - many employers recruit graduates from their placement programme.
- You will be able to contextualise your studies better, be more mature in your attitude to work,
- You may decide to draw on your working experiences and access a more fulfilling dissertation research subject.
- You will gain invaluable job search and graduate research skills by engaging in the competitive placement recruitment process.
To ensure you are getting the most out of your experience, we support your placement in a number of ways:
First Year Workshops help you to develop your Placement Strategy and to identify and develop those skills and competencies that will be critical to ensure you are attractive to potential placement employers. These typically involve Employers, Placement Mentors, representatives from Colleges, Societies and the Volunteering Community in Durham.
Second Year Workshops support you through the placement application process and allow you to develop into a supportive student group to travel along the road of gaining a placement together. They enable you to get to know those students who will return with you in the fourth year. Workshops typically involve employers, and former placement students.
Placement Mentors: We have a mentorship scheme whereby former placement students share their experiences of the application process and placement with first and second year students and those out on placement. . If you become a placement mentor on your return to University you can continue to develop your interpersonal skills and slide back into your University life with another key role which may well develop a new sense of belonging as well as another valuable contribution to your CV
Placement Tutors: Whilst you are on placement you are assigned a tutor who will visit you, liaise with your employer and ensure you gain the most from your experience.
The Business Placement year fees are set annually by the University – fees are % of the annual tuition fee. Any fees displayed are for guidance only. For the definitive amount of the Business Placement year fees payable please contact
*The offer of a place on a ‘with placement’ degree does not imply that Durham University Business School guarantees to find the student a placement. The Business School, in association with the University, will assist students in finding and applying for placements, but it is the responsibility of the student to apply for and to obtain a placement (which is subject to approval by the Business School). In the event that a student is unable to obtain a placement, transfer to the equivalent ‘non-placement’ programme is guaranteed provided the student is eligible to transfer on academic grounds. In line with Home Office rules, students from outside the EU will transfer onto the ‘with business placement’ programme only once they have successfully secured a placement (normally at the end of their second year of study). Therefore due to visa requirements, we recommend that international students interested in the business placement year as part of their degree apply for this programme when making their application to us via UCAS.
Year 4Moving to a more research-led teaching orientation in the third year, you are required to produce a double module Dissertation in area of accounting and management. Additionally, you will study three compulsory modules exploring:
- Contemporary Issues in Financial Accounting
- Contemporary Issues in Management
- Financial Planning and Control.
And choose one module from a selection which in previous years have included, for example:
- Corporate Governance
- Strategic Management
- Corporate Entrepreneurship.
- Leadership
- Islamic Economics and Finance
- Historical Studies in Accounting
- Real Estate Finance
- A Foreign Language.
Accounting and Management with Business Placement-BA