Accounting and Finance with a Professional Placement Year BSc (Hons)

The Accounting and Finance degree programme shares a common first year syllabus with the Accounting degree programme, providing an essential grounding in a range of business related areas including statistics, economics, law, marketing and management.<br/><br/>The second and fourth years of the programme combine the study of the core areas of financial accounting, business finance and management accounting with a diverse range of specialist finance topics. In your final year you will have the opportunity to select areas of relevance and benefit to your career interests.<br/><br/>The programme will provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge, both theoretical and practical, through the professional placement year, to take on responsible positions early in a variety of careers in various sectors of the accounting or finance professions.<br/><br/>**Distinctive features**<br/><br/>Distinctive features of the course include:<br/>- the opportunity to learn in a school which achieved 6th place in the UK at Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014;<br/><br/><br/>- the involvement of research-active staff in course delivery;<br/><br/><br/>- the emphasis on independent learning in a research-led environment;<br/><br/><br/>- the emphasis on acquisition of high quality practical skills and the development of innovative ideas;<br/><br/><br/>- many of our staff are leading international experts in their fields of research and a significant number are qualified accountants with many years of professional experience. <br/><br/><br/>- an opportunity to undertake a professional placement in your third year which may help kick start your professional training and provide you with a competitive edge in the employment market<br/><br/><br/>- an accredited degree programme which provides exemptions from certain examinations of many of the major UK professional accounting bodies<br/>