Accounting and Finance (with Foundation Year) Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

Course overview\
This course includes a foundation year - ideal if you need additional preparation or if you don't have sufficient grades to join Year 1. Accounting and finance are the beating heart of an organisation. Maintaining good financial health and conducting business ethically are fundamental to an organisation's sustained success. This accounting and finance course offers excellent graduate prospects, allowing you to work in some of the most prestigious accountancy firms around the world.

Develop a detailed knowledge of accounting and finance and a global outlook with strong leadership capability. Alongside core areas of accounting, you focus on emerging technology, digital skills, governance, ethics, sustainability, employability and finance. Graduate with the skills and expertise to move into roles such as accountant, data analyst, tax adviser or purchasing manager, and the confidence to progress to more senior and strategic roles. Through our connections with industry, we ensure you are familiar with the latest trends and the impact of digital and AI on business and society.

Top reasons to study this course

* Financial awards: you may be eligible for a scholarship to support your studies and living costs.

* Industry input: work with brands to give you experience of working with global organisations.

* Teaching quality: Teesside University was ranked 7th for Teaching Quality for Accounting & Finance in the Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026. (100 institutions ranked tees.ac.uk/source).

* United Nations’ PRME initiative: we’re a proud signatory of the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative, which aims to globally raise the profile of sustainability and responsible leadership to equip current and future leaders with the knowledge, skills and behaviours to solve the global business challenges.

Employability\
The course is aimed primarily at students wishing to enter a finance-related career and many graduates have obtained trainee accountant positions in a variety of organisations locally, nationally and internationally. Holding an accounting qualification also provides a basis for entry into general management with excellent prospects to develop into strategic roles.

We provide an environment that allows you to develop the ‘extra’ practical employability characteristics that will make you more interesting to employers in the job market in the years to come.

All programmes are designed to incorporate employability skills development alongside your degree. Our staff utilise their extensive business connections to provide many and varied opportunities to engage with potential employers through fairs, guest lectures, live projects and site visits. In addition we offer a series of workshops and events in all years that ensure you are equipped with both degree-level subject knowledge and the practical skills that employers are looking for in new graduate recruits.

We offer extensive support for you to find and secure sandwich year placements which have been shown to make have a significant positive impact on your career prospects when you graduate.

Our award-winning careers service works with regional and national employers to advertise graduate positions, in addition to providing post-graduation support for all Teesside University alumni.