BA (Hons) Accounting with Finance

Modern accountancy isn't all about number crunching and spreadsheets. As an accountant, you must understand, visualise and present financial data to ensure businesses make the right decisions. You'll be at the heart of the business, analysing performance and informing strategy.

This degree focuses on modern accountancy skills. You'll learn to inform and persuade using numbers. You'll work in small groups that replicate the workplace, focusing on teamwork, real-world case studies and developing strategy from financial data.

From your second year, you'll be able to tailor your learning to your area of specialist interest, choosing your modules to focus on:

• professional modules : take the fastest route to become an ACCA chartered accountant
• finance modules : your best preparation route for working in banking or investment management
• analytics modules : combine accounting with data analysis, including data cleaning, visualisation and modelling

The course is accredited by three key accounting bodies (ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW), so whichever route you take, you'll have many exemptions from professional exams.

Course highlights

• Be taught by professionally qualified accountants who have industry experience with companies such as KPMG, Deloitte and HSBC.
• Get on the fast track to becoming a chartered accountant through our accredited exemptions from professional exams with three global accounting bodies.
• Be employment-ready by using industry-standard software and databases such as Oracle, SAP, Sage and S&P Capital IQ.
• Choose options in business analytics to develop the skills that modern accounting needs.
• Benefit from the opportunity to gain additional certifications, for example, the ACCA Data Analytics Certificate
• Gain a Bloomberg Certificate (a trading platform that's used by 250,000 financial service professionals) in our dedicated Bloomberg Suite
• Apply your learning by helping student entrepreneurs and local charities such as Age Concern and The Rowans Hospice with their finances
• Feel supported throughout your studies through our peer mentoring, maths support and our team of friendly staff who'll get to know you well

Accredited by

This course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

This means that in addition to achieving a degree, you receive exemptions from ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW professional examinations. This course offers the maximum number of exemptions for ACCA and CIMA (dependent on the modules you choose to take).

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