draft BA (Hons) Accountancy

Program Overview

Overview

Accountants play an important role in business, providing key information that underpins the work of decision makers within organisations

Accredited by the main UK professional accountancy bodies (ICAS, ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA and CIPFA), we focus on practical content and your future employability. Along with all aspects of accountancy, you'll study topics in economics, law and management.

Professional accountants prepare financial statements and record business transactions; they also use information systems to track financial performance and participate in mergers and acquisitions and the governance of organisations.

A high number of our graduates are employed by major accountancy firms and blue-chip organisations, often overseas, such as Grant Thornton, KPMG, Baker Tilly and Ernst & Young. Others secure training contracts and many undertake further professional study. Our graduates are exempt from a number of professional examinations.

Program Outline

What you

will study

Financial and Management Accounting and supporting business subjects

Ethics and Responsible Leadership, Corporate Finance, Public Sector Accounting, Management and Financial Accounting

Taxation, Financial and Management Accounting, Audit, Business Research,  Option

Includes specialist subjects such as ethics and corporate governance, as well as advanced Accounting and Finance topics and options from a wider subject range plus Honours Dissertation in your chosen area

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Assessment methods

As a professionally accredited programme, our approach to learning, teaching and assessment is tailored to the needs of the profession and the requirements of the professional bodies.

Industry-standard facilities

Our Bloomberg Finance Lab, designed exclusively for colleges and universities, brings financial leadership into the classroom by introducing you to the world’s leading platform for global business and finance news, data, analytical tools and research.

You'll have access to the same information platform used by leading decision-makers, asset managers and policy architects in business, finance and government.

Using the Bloomberg platform as an interactive teaching tool in the classroom will deepen both your research and classwork, while learning how to analyse financial markets, assess economic scenarios and interpret the key news developments that impact the global economy.

We have integrated the Bloomberg Terminal into a number of modules offering you the chance to access and analyze real-time financial data for a variety of assessment methods These range from completing module coursework to using the platform as the main source of data collection for your dissertation.

By populating your spreadsheets with data from the terminal, you're able to monitor and analyze key financial information and create the same types of financial models that professionals rely on to make real-world business decisions.

As part of your studies, you're also given the option to complete the Bloomberg Market Concepts (BMC) course. This is a self-paced e-learning course that covers the most important functions of financial markets including economic indicators, fixed income, equities and foreign exchange markets.

Once you've successfully completed the BMC course, you'll be a certified Bloomberg user, an important employability asset. The skills you'll acquire from this experience will provide you with the confidence and advantages you need to compete and stand out from your peers.

Professional recognition

This programme is accredited by the main UK professional accountancy bodies including ICAS, ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA and CIPFA.

Student experience

In the 2022 National Student Survey, this course received an overall satisfaction level of 90% – an outstanding recommendation provided by final year students on the quality of teaching and learning on this programme.

Teaching methods

We use a variety of learning and teaching methods to ensure that our programme is both vocationally relevant and academically challenging. All of our modules use GCULearn, the university's virtual learning environment, which provides course materials, reading resources, assessments and feedback are all available online. It is also used to enable students to undertake online activities and tasks, listen to podcasts, be involved in online discussion groups, and take part in blogs and Twitter-based learning activities. This approach is blended with more traditional lecture, tutorial and seminar contact.

Our curriculum is designed to promote employability, with our syllabus developed in line with the requirements of professional bodies in order to gain accreditation and subject exemptions.

90% Overall satisfaction

In the 2022 National Student Survey this course received an overall satisfaction level of 90% - an outstanding recommendation provided by final year students on the quality of teaching and learning on this course.