Business Accounting BSc Honours

Bachelor's degree

In London

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

  • Start date

    October

How is the BSc Business Accounting taught?
You will learn by reading textbooks and journals and using computer-aided packages, as well as attending lectures, workshops and seminars. You will do exercises in class, online and in groups, work on case studies and problem-solving exercises and take part in class discussions.
Work placements
We encourage our students to undertake a paid work placement during their studies either as a year long assignment between Year 2 and 3, or as two shorter placements during the summers of Year 1 and 2, and between Year 2 and 3. The paid, year-long work placement exempts you from paying tuition fees for the full academic year ensuring you gain the necessary practical skills to embark on your chosen career.
Assessment
You will be assessed through exams, tests, essays and other written assignments, presentations, and individual and group assignments. You will be given regular feedback on your work throughout the course.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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The Burroughs, NW4 4BT

Start date

OctoberEnrolment now open

About this course

Qualifications
96 UCAS points
Middlesex University has a flexible and personalised approach to admissions and we accept applications from students with a wide range of qualifications and a combination of qualifications.
Please check our general entry requirements page to see how these points can be achieved from our acceptable level 3 qualifications and the combinations which are welcomed by Middlesex University, including GCSE requirements. ts at level 4 for year 2 entry
Year 3: 240 UG credits
Academic credit for previous study or experience

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Subjects

  • IT Law
  • Financial Management
  • Operations Management
  • Decision Making
  • Business Environment
  • Sage
  • Business Accounting
  • Financial Accounting
  • Market
  • Governance
  • Investment
  • IT Project Management
  • Accounting
  • IT
  • International
  • Accounting MBA
  • Finance
  • Financial
  • Law
  • Project
  • Project Management
  • Trade
  • Management Accounting
  • Financial Training
  • Tax
  • Business
  • Finance theory
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Collaborator
  • Communicator
  • Business roles

Course programme

Course content

What will you study on the BSc Business Accounting?

Middlesex was the first university in the UK to provide certificated CIMA Sage training and you will learn to use CIMA Sage accounting software and gain an official CIMA Sage user's certificate. From the second year onwards you will choose from an extensive range of modules that explore the broader business environment, and gain an understanding of the pivotal role of accounting to the success of organisations across the globe.

What will you gain?

You will develop a set of transferable skills to support you on your career journey, such as advanced analytical thinking and problem solving. You will learn how to work effectively in teams as both a leader and collaborator and become a confident communicator both written and verbally, ensuring you can communicate effectively in a business environment.

Modules

Year 1

Financial Accounting (30 credits) – Compulsory

This module is an introduction to bookkeeping and financial accounting. Its main aim is to provide you with the basic techniques and skills required to record transactions by the method known in accounting as “double entry” and then prepare a set of single company accounts based on those records. You will also start to be able to interpret the accounts prepared by others.

Management Accounting (30 credits) – Compulsory

This module aims to provide an understanding of the basic concepts of management accounting. The techniques learned on this module will form the basis for future studies and include investment decision making, and the classification and interpretation of cost behaviour in decision making and control.

Financial Data Analysis (15 credits) – Compulsory

This module provides a thorough grounding of the basic statistical methods and computer software for the analysis and presentation of accounting and economic date. It caters for those with some prior mathematical knowledge, and while you are expected to complete mathematical calculations by hand and using a computer, the emphasis is on the interpretation and communication of quantitative results.

Accounting Information Systems (15 credits) – Compulsory

This module aims to introduce and highlight the significant role accounting information plays in each fundamental business transaction process. You will learn to analyse and handle information using accounting systems and advanced IT techniques.

Corporate Responsibility and Ethics (15 credits) – Compulsory

This module introduces the concepts of corporate responsibility and business ethics as well as the knowledge of key stakeholders, together with the rights and responsibilities that businesses have in connection with them. You will explore external influences that affect a business in its environment and examine how behaviour at all levels within business should be underpinned by accepted professional ethics and professional values. You will also have the opportunity to research and debate how a business should respond to ethical concerns and how it should discharge its corporate responsibility.

Business Environment (15 credits) – Compulsory

This module aims to provide you with an understanding of economics from a business perspective. This includes an understanding of how competition, the behaviour of the financial markets and government economic policy can influence an organisation. You will also gain the ability to apply economic theory in both microeconomic and macroeconomic contexts.

Year 2

Applied Financial Accounting (30 credits) – Compulsory

This module aims to develop your knowledge of financial accounting techniques and practices by introducing issues which involve more than one possible accounting treatment and examine the impact of international regulatory frameworks. You are encouraged to adopt a critical attitude to the quality of corporate reporting, particularly in areas of non-mandatory narrative disclosures such as corporate social responsibility and governance.

Applied Management Accounting (30 credits) – Compulsory

This module examines the application of management accounting information and its influence on management behaviour and decision making. It will provide you with an opportunity to apply, interpret and analyse management accounting techniques and enable you to consider their wider and strategic uses. The module will explore the impact on organisations of strategic issues of contemporary management accounting.

Financial Project Management (30 credits) – Compulsory

This module aims to introduce the techniques and practices in project management. During the first part of the module you will examine the conceptual frameworks and key theories that underpins each phase of project management. The second part, you will critically evaluate project optimisation mechanisms and explore ethical issues in project management. You also have the opportunity to manage a simulated project throughout the time of this module.

Business Law (30 credits) – Optional

This module will examine the laws regulating the conduct of business and business organisations. The first part of the module sets the context and provides essential material on English Business law (English Legal system, Contract, Tort & Employment) whilst the second part covers Company law and Corporate Governance.

Personal Financial Behaviour (30 credits) – Optional

This module will aim to a variety of personal finance products and issues so as to increase your financial literacy. It will also provide you with an understanding of personal financial behaviour which how market anomalies, financial bubbles, fake news and manipulations in financial markets can influence individual financial decision making. You will also gain the ability to apply cognitive and emotional behaviour biases in irrational behaviour contexts.

Financial Mathematics (30 credits) – Optional

This module explores the mathematics that underlies financial processes and financial decision making, and complements the study of these areas in economics and accounting. Specific areas include probability, extending interest ideas to annuities and bonds, modelling financial data using time series models and Markov chains, applying discrete methods for option pricing, and using utility to make decisions in risky environments.

Year 3

Accounting Theory (15 credits) – Compulsory

This module examines accounting theory and its influence in accounting. The module aims to provide you with an opportunity to evaluate and apply different strands of accounting theory to research in accounting. The first part of the module is designed to provide an in-depth exploration of philosophical debates connected to the generation of knowledge, whilst connecting such debates to those currently employed in accounting. The second part enables you to undertake a research investigation into an accounting area.

Advanced Financial Data Analysis (30 credits) – Compulsory

This module explores and applies several quantitative methods and computer software for the retrieval, analysis and presentation of project management accounting data. The emphasis being on the interpretation and communication of quantitative results for project planning, control and decision making.

Corporate Finance (30 credits) – Compulsory

This module aims to provide you with a conceptual understanding of contemporary corporate finance and the practical tools and techniques for the financial decision-making process. You will explore the main aspects of financial management, including capital budgeting and investment decision-making, capital structure and finance decision-making, and working capital management. You enabled to form a critical appreciation of the link between accounting and finance, and the interaction between financial decision-making and capital market behaviour.

Taxation (30 credits) – Optional

This module aims to introduce you to UK personal and business taxation. It deals with the fundamental principles of UK tax law and practice, including the computation of tax liabilities. This leads you to tackle more complex computational problems and to identify tax planning opportunities. You are also introduced to tax software packages, and gain hands-on experience of their use.

Ethics and Sustainability (15 credits) – Compulsory

The aim of this module is to provide you with the critical tools and mindset to analyse and identify responses to modern ethical business challenges. You will be sensitised to different ways of thinking, learning from debating and collaborating with your peers from different cultural backgrounds so as to build your methodological, analytical and communication skills.

Work Internship (30 credits) – Optional

The work internship module will give you the opportunity to undertake a period of work experience (minimum of 30 days) from which you learn about business in general, and the organisation and the sector within which it operates as well as the key drivers of business success. The work placement will provide an insight into the world of work and appropriate conduct at work. The module will therefore facilitate you in the process of becoming and staying employable through assertiveness, continuing development and reflection on both your development and the link between theory and practice.

Investment Analysis (30 credits) – Optional

This module aims to develop your knowledge of modern investment theory and practice. A detailed study of classic portfolio theory provides the basis for an appreciation of, and further investigation into, themes that are currently at the forefront of reflection and research in investment theory, including sceptical views of the classic paradigm whose status has been boosted by the international banking crisis that began in 2008. In tandem with a critical approach to theory, the module offers insights into the quantitative methods (and supporting technology) that are used to inform the construction and management of investment portfolios. Furthermore the module analyses institutional, product and technological innovation in the sphere of investment management, particularly in relation to a heightened concern with risk control, market liquidity and disclosure of information.

Business Start-up (30 credits) – Optional

The aim of this module is to introduce the complexities of starting a business. It draws together a range of theories, concepts and notions from several sources such as Finance, Marketing and Strategy. In particular, the module facilitates the development of a unique business plan in which you will learn, practice and apply the necessary academic and practical knowledge and skill sets, including team working, required for the establishment of a new business, as well as an understanding of the complexities relating to the functioning of a small business.

Modules

September 2018 - Year 2 entry only

Year 2 modules

Issues in Financial Accounting (30 Credits)- Compulsory

This module aims to develop knowledge of accounting by introducing issues which involve more than one possible accounting treatment and which are therefore inherently controversial. The module grounds the accounting work in a conceptual, regulatory and governance context, using examples derived from UK, US and International Financial Reporting Standards. It also examines the impact of accounting treatment on the analysis of profitability, liquidity and solvency. Students will enhance their ability to read and analyse the financial statements of quoted companies and to identify areas which may be the focus of creative accounting by management. The module encourages students to adopt a critical attitude to the quality of corporate reporting, particularly in areas of non-mandatory narrative disclosures such as corporate social responsibility and governance.

Issues in Management Accounting (30 Credits)- Compulsory

This module examines the use of management accounting information and its influence on management behaviour and decision making. It will provide students with an opportunity to use, interpret and analyse management accounting techniques and enable students to consider their wider and strategic uses. The module will explore the impact on organisations of strategic issues of management accounting.

Trade and International Business (30 Credits)- Optional

The aim of this module is to provide an understanding of the theories relating to trade and international business and how they are being applied in an increasingly interdependent world. The module commences with an introduction to the world trade system, the process of trade liberalisation and multilateral trade negotiations, the pros and cons of free trade. In the second part of the course we introduce the perspective of international business, in particular a focus on the role of multinational enterprise in the world trade system. Taken together these elements should equip students with a broader sense of running a business beyond the domestic market.

Human Resource Management in Practice (30 Credits)- Optional

The aim is to introduce students to the key areas of HRM and to build on relevant knowledge and skills developed in Year 1 modules. By the end of the year students will be familiar with a wide range of generalist HR policies and practices within the five key areas of the discipline: employee resourcing, employee reward, employee relations, performance management and employee training and development.

Business Law (30 Credits)- Optional

This module will examine the laws regulating the conduct of business and business organisations. The first part of the module sets the context and provides essential material on English Business law (English Legal system, Contract, Tort & Employment) whilst the second part covers Company law and Corporate Governance.

Operations Management (30 Credits)- Optional

This module aims to broaden and expand students’ knowledge and understanding of the concepts, tools and techniques of operations management. Students will develop analytical insights into current operations management practices, explore the priorities and techniques of operations management and employ these to the design, operation and control of business processes.

Business Environment Analysis (30 Credits)- Optional

In this module you will begin to acquire the knowledge and skills typically required for more advanced study of businesses and in managerial decision-making. You will learn to analyse business environments and handle information using techniques, models and frameworks that will also start to build higher level employability skills.

Financial Mathematics (30 Credits)- Optional

This module explores the mathematics that underlies financial processes and financial decision making, and complements the study of these areas in economics and accounting. Specific areas include probability, extending interest ideas to annuities and bonds, modelling financial data using time series models and Markov chains, applying discrete methods for option pricing, and using utility to make decisions in risky environments.

Year 3 modules

Accounting Theory (30 Credits)- Compulsory

This module examines accounting theory and its influence in accounting. The module aims to provide students with an opportunity to evaluate and apply different strands of accounting theory to research in accounting. The first part of the module is designed to provide an in-depth exploration of philosophical debates connected to the generation of knowledge, whilst connecting such debates to those currently employed in accounting. The second part module enables students to undertake a research investigation into an accounting area.

Finance (30 Credits)- Compulsory

This module aims to provide students with a solid understanding of contemporary corporate finance both theoretically and practically. The module will explain all the main aspects of financial management, including capital budgeting and investment decision-making, capital structure and finance decision-making, and working capital management. It will enable a critical appreciation of the link between accounting and finance, and the interaction between financial decision-making and capital market behaviour. Students will also develop and refine their transferable skills, including communication, presentation skills, critical analysis, time management and team-working skills.

Taxation (30 Credits)- Optional

This module aims to introduce students to UK personal and business taxation. It deals with the fundamental principles of UK tax law and practice, including the computation of tax liabilities. This leads students to tackle more complex computational problems and to identify tax planning opportunities. Students are also introduced to tax software packages, and gain hands on experience of their use

Business Accounting BSc Honours

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