BA in Accounting and Business

This degree will give you the essential knowledge and skills you need to progress within an accounting and financial management environment.

Our Accounting and Business degree is designed to give you the flexibility to shape your own successful future. We’ll give you the essential knowledge and skills you need to progress within an accounting and financial management environment. In addition, you will get a strong grounding in key business principles, including an overview of core management functions, operations, economics, marketing, legal issues and the external business environment.

If you’ve got your sights set on becoming a professional accountant, we know the studying doesn’t stop with your degree. You’ll need to complete a professional qualification with organizations like the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) , the global body for professional accountants. We want to help you get to your career faster, so we’ve designed our modules in line with the ACCA so you can acquire credits towards your ACCA qualification whilst you study, giving you maximum exemptions against your professional exams.*

Studying Accounting and Business at Leeds Trinity University will broaden your career options. Qualified accountant? Traditional management career? The choice will be yours.

(*Subject to ACCA accreditation)

Prerequisites

Typically our entry offer for this degree course is 260 UCAS tariff points. We welcome students with a range of qualifications including A Levels, AS Levels, BTEC Nationals, Advanced and Progressions Diplomas, NVQs, GNVQs and accredited Access Courses.

We treat every application on its own merits; we value highly the experience you illustrate in your personal statement.

Other requirements: GCSE grade C or above in English Language and Mathematics (or equivalent qualification). You do not need to have studied Business previously as the first year will provide you with the necessary foundation knowledge and skills. A working knowledge of computer word-processing, spreadsheets and presentation software is desirable, though not essential.

Assessment

A variety of assessment methods are used, matched to the learning outcomes for the programme, to enable students to demonstrate the full range of knowledge and skills that they have developed. There is some scope for students to be involved in negotiating and evaluating some assessment.

On this programme, there are some assessments which are marked on a pass/fail basis rather than graded. Please note that these assessments are excluded from the calculations made to produce the figures published in the Key Information Set (KIS) for this programme/subject.

Assessment in Accounting and Business additionally enables students to gain exemption from all or part of the Foundation stage examinations for ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants).

Assessments tailored to this course include the production of portfolios of work, individual and group presentations as well as coursework reports research projects and more traditional seen and unseen exam papers.

A small university with a big reputation

We’re proud to offer a personal and inclusive university experience that gives every student the support to realise their potential.

Our students say it, our alumni say it and our staff say it – you really are a name, not a number, at Leeds Trinity University.

Located on a beautiful campus six miles from Leeds – one of the UK’s best student cities – we’ve been providing outstanding, student-centred higher education for more than 50 years.

We pioneered the inclusion of professional work placements with every degree and are one of the UK’s top universities for employability. 93% of our graduates are in employment or further study 15 months after graduating.