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BSc (Hons) Accounting and Financial Management

Loughborough University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Our BSc Accounting and Financial Management course is designed to prepare you for careers in diverse areas of accounting, finance, and management and to equip you to deal with the challenges of an ever-changing business world.

One of our key goals is to develop the broader skills and intellectual independence our graduates will need to thrive in a long and rewarding professional career. We help you create the technical accounting and finance skills required to get a head start in your professional career, but we also place accounting firmly in its business context.

Our Accounting and Financial Management degree is approved by major professional accounting bodies in the UK (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, and ICAEW). Graduates can gain exemptions from some examinations or prior learning credits. However, we offer the opportunity to study a much more comprehensive range of subjects than those of the narrow professional syllabuses.

We are committed to helping you stand out in a highly competitive graduate job market, and the course has a first-rate graduate employability record.

The course develops skills employers value, including independent learning and research, analytical skills, teamwork, presentation, project work, computer skills, and numeracy. The variety of optional modules allows you to develop specialist skills and tailor your degree to suit your career aspirations.

Skills for employability are a vital part of the Loughborough experience. They can boost your job prospects, and this degree has a module specifically built to help you develop your study and employability skills. There are also specific modules in entrepreneurship to help those with aspirations to start or develop their businesses.

Our BSc (Hons) Accounting and Financial Management degrees share the same first-year modules as our Finance and Management degrees. If you realize at the end of your first academic year that you prefer the finance route, you may transfer to our Finance and Management degree.

General Eligibility

Typical A-level offer

AAB

No subject-specific requirements

  • Majority 7/6 (A/B) grades at GCSE

  • Maths and English Language GCSE grade 6/B or above

We may ask applicants to achieve specific grades in certain subjects.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Semester 1 & 2

Compulsory modules
  • Skills for Study, Placement and Employment

  • Financial Accounting Fundamentals

Plus one of:
  • Quantitative Business Skills A - Students with a post GCSE Maths qualification

  • Quantitative Business Skills B

Semester 1

Compulsory modules
  • Organisational Behaviour

  • Microeconomics for Financial Studies

  • Introduction to Law

Semester 2

Compulsory modules

  • Principles of Finance

  • Macroeconomics for Financial Studies

  • Organisations in the International Context

2 Year 2

Semester 1 & 2

Compulsory modules

  • Management Accounting

Semester 1

Compulsory modules
  • Ethics in Finance and Accounting

  • Financial Reporting

  • Advanced Professional Skills

  • Knowledge Data and Information Systems

    Optional modules
  • Marketing

  • Human Resource Management

  • Organisation Studies

  • International Business

  • Global Brand Management

  • Management Science Methods

  • University-wide Language Programme

Semester 2

Compulsory modules

  • Financial Markets and Derivatives Fundamentals

  • Performance Appraisal and Stock Valuations

  • Auditing

Optional modules
  • Information Systems Development

  • Company Law

  • Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship

  • International Management

  • Operations Management

  • Data Analysis for Management

  • Digital Marketing

  • Business Programming

  • Consumer Behaviour

  • University-wide Language Programme

3 Year 3

Semester 1 & 2

Optional modules
  • University-wide Language Programme

Semester 1

Compulsory modules
  • Financial Reporting: Theory and Practice

  • Management Accounting and Control Systems

  • Corporate Finance

Optional modules
  • Data Analytics for Accounting and Finance

  • Financial Risk Management

  • Corporate Governance

  • International Corporate Governance and Firms

  • Decision and Efficiency Analysis

  • Consulting for Decision Making

  • Technology in Business and Society

  • Managing Big Data

  • Advanced Interpersonal Skills

  • International Human Resource Management

  • International Marketing

  • Information and Knowledge Management

  • Small Business Issues

  • Business Forecasting

Semester 2

Compulsory modules
  • Strategic Management Accounting and Performance

Optional modules
  • Portfolio Management

  • Behavioural Finance

  • Multinational Financial Management

  • Issues in Financial Reporting

  • International Negotiations

  • Entrepreneurship in Post-conflict Spaces

  • Business Optimisation

  • Simulation for Decision Support

  • Strategic Information Management

  • Digital Technology and Social Justice

  • Analysing Careers

  • The Changing Work Organisation

  • Marketing Strategy and Planning

  • Services Marketing

  • Marketing Communications

  • Business Planning for New Ventures

  • Enterprise Resource Planning

  • Project Management

Language Requirement

IELTS 6.5 overall with 6.0 in each element (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) or equivalent qualification.

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