BA (Hons) Financial Management

Good financial decision-making is key to the success of any business. With this financial management degree, you'll gain the knowledge and skills to plan, organise and control business finances. You'll also explore other key business functions such as marketing, managing people and operational management, giving you an understanding of how finance affects and underpins a whole business.

As the course progresses, you'll be able to focus on your interests through optional modules. You can explore data and analytics, accounting or financial systems in more detail, depending on what kind of role you'd like when you graduate.

Graduates of this course have gone on to be finance managers in business, accountants, or work in financial services.

Course highlights

• Be employment-ready by using industry-standard software and databases such as Oracle, SAP, Sage and S&P Capital IQ.
• Gain skills in modelling and visualising financial and business data in our data analytics modules
• Benefit from the opportunity to gain additional certifications, for example, the ACCA Data Analytics certificate
• Apply your learning by helping local charities and student entrepreneurs with their finances
• Gain a Bloomberg Certificate (a trading platform that's used by 250,000 financial service professionals) in our dedicated Bloomberg Suite
• Feel supported throughout your studies through our peer mentoring, maths support and our team of friendly staff who'll get to know you well

Accreditation

This course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). This means that you won't have to take some of the CIMA exams if you want to be CIMA certified after you graduate. You'll have completed part of your professional qualification by doing this degree. Find out more about these exceptions on the CIMA website.

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