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Finance, Accounting and Management with Placement Year

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Course overview

Our BSc Finance, Accounting and Management with Placement Year degree focuses on how modern firms work and the financial environment they operate in. You鈥檒l gain a solid grounding in areas such as business finance, financial and management accounting and business law. It鈥檚 a programme built to develop future business leaders.

From day one, you鈥檒l be equipped with contemporary accounting knowledge and up-to-date practice, including taxation, auditing and advanced financial management. Beyond the conventional finance modules, a stand-out feature of this course are its cutting-edge modules, tackling topics such as AI, fintech and sustainable finance.

This course includes an integrated placement year, giving you the opportunity to apply your skills in a real business environment. In preparation for this, you鈥檒l attend additional workshops in your first and second years. You鈥檒l also have access to professional advice from our dedicated Placements team, who鈥檒l support you throughout your placement.

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Modules

Core modules

7 modules

Introduction to Finance

Understand the fundamental concepts of finance, including the relationship between investment risk and returns, the time value of money聽and calculating聽the聽present value聽of future cash flows.聽You鈥檒l聽cover聽project appraisal聽using net present value (NVP), portfolio theory,聽capital asset pricing model (CAPM)聽and estimating聽the cost of capital for equity and聽bonds.


Business Law

Ever wondered what rules keep companies running 鈥� or what happens when things go wrong? This module dives into the English聽legal聽system, introducing everything from contracts and workplace rights聽to聽the聽life聽of a business, from start up to winding up.聽You鈥檒l聽explore real-life issues, including situations of harm or loss, and discover how the legal system shapes the world聽of business.


Introduction to Digital Business

Dive into the world of computers and IT in business, with a special focus on spreadsheet modelling. Through lab-based assessments and case study group projects,聽you'll聽gain hands-on competence in using spreadsheets and understand the impact of computers and the聽internet, especially in small businesses.


Economic Principles

Explore聽the microeconomic theory of the market, firm聽and consumer聽and the macroeconomic policy agenda.聽This module develops analytical frameworks for evaluating policy instruments, enabling you to understand and evaluate economic arguments, providing a foundation for further study in economics.


Fundamentals of Financial and Management Accounting

Understand key accounting concepts,聽the impact of accounting policy聽selection聽and the preparation of financial statements聽and budgets. This module covers double entry bookkeeping, cost concepts, allocation of manufacturing overheads, absorption and variable costing, cost-volume-profit聽analysis,聽聽budgeting聽and variance analysis.


Quantitative Methods 1B for Finance

Develop your skills in mathematical and statistical techniques with topics like calculus, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, partial differentiation, optimisation, probability, random聽variables聽and sampling distributions. This module equips you to tackle quantitative challenges in economics and business.


Professional and Academic Development

This module equips students with skills to succeed in the study of economics and beyond. With the help of examples and digital tools, students are introduced to the foundations of working with data, from understanding different data types and sources to visualising and interpreting data. The module fosters critical awareness of ethical issues in the production and use of data with questions about bias, transparency and sustainability.


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Entry requirements

Fees

拢10,050 per year

Duration and additional information

4 years full-time

My placement year transformed me both personally and professionally. I鈥檇 highly recommend placement years to other students as the invaluable exposure, networking opportunities and practical skills gained from a placement year are unlike any other experience at university."

Neyaz Zaman

BSc Finance, Accounting and Management with Placement Year

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