Accounting and Finance (with Professional Practice Year) BSc (Hons) - Clearing

The business world requires accounting and finance professionals capable of making informed, strategic choices that empower businesses in a competitive market. This course equips you with the skills to make such decisions across a range of business environments. You gain the understanding and skills to record, interpret and communicate financial information, applying the latest International Financial Reporting standards. In a simulated business environment, you explore aspects of business practice, from regulatory and risk management to the operation and vulnerabilities of financial markets.

Take your course over four years and include a Professional Practice Year after your second year of studies. It is an opportunity to apply your learning in the workplace while enhancing your knowledge and skills through fee-free paid practice. It also builds your CV and industry contacts with many students progressing to employment within their practice-year organisation or institution.

- This course is accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA); Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT); The Association of International Accountants (AIA); and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).  - Completing relevant accredited course units makes you eligible for exemptions in ACCA, AAT, AIA and CIMA examinations.

- New business analytics suite to support data analytics, 'big-data', data mining, SEO and other management skills needed in today's workplace. - Access to industry-standard applications and platforms to aid practical learning including Sage, Refinitiv Workspace and econometrics software STATA. - Access to digital learning platforms and knowledge tools.- A well-equipped trading room to enhance your financial skills. - Gain competencies in key digital skills such as Excel through SIMnet, our Microsoft Office training platform.

- Our students benefit from our collaboration with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).