Business and Management (Accounting) - Professional Placement Year BA (Hons)

**Dive into the figures that make businesses tick in this CIMA accredited Business and Management course..**<br/>- Discover the importance of data in business and prepare for a career in a wide variety of sectors.<br/><br/><br/>- Open up your options in the world of finance whilst gaining a solid understanding of business and management concepts.<br/><br/><br/>- Choose either a ten-month or ten-week work placement and apply what you’ve learned in the real world.<br/><br/><br/>This CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) accredited course is designed to give you an edge in todays competitive job market. Analysing and understanding figures is at the core of how business functions. By learning the impact of numbers in relation to the financial world, youll open up your career options. Youll develop the skills you need to enter the workplace with strong business and management knowledge and a toolkit of accounting abilities.<br/><br/>Whatever your aspirations, our friendly and hands-on Business School will help you start to build a clear picture of where your skills could take you. Alumni from this course have gone on to work with major players in the industry such as IBM, the NHS, Logica and Ocado.<br/><br/>**More about the Professional Placement Year**<br/>A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where you undertake a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between your second and final years of undergraduate study. You can engage in multiple placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) yourself, with support from the Careers team.