Business with Accounting BA(Hons)

Why choose this course?

This course is ideal if you want to study business with an emphasis on accounting. It combines a sound grounding in general business studies with a detailed focus on financial and management accounting. You can choose to follow the course as a three-year programme or spend an additional year on a work placement and/or a study exchange.

What will you study?

You will gain a broad foundation of business knowledge, including business information technology, statistical analysis, organisation behaviour, marketing, operations management and law. You will cover financial and management accounting topics, including preparing and interpreting company financial statements, and constructing and analysing financial information for management. In your final year, you will also study strategic management.

You can use the optional placement year to apply the knowledge and skills you have gained, as well as to develop new career skills. Alternatively you could use this year to undertake an overseas study exchange.

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Business Environment
• Managing Yourself
• Financial Accounting
• Quantitative Methods
• Business Information Systems

Year 2

• Financial Accounting for Business
• Management Accounting for Business
• Marketing Management
• Operations Management

Year 3

• Accounting for Business Decision Making and Control
• Strategic Management OR Strategic Information Management and Consultancy
• Theory and Practice of Financial Reporting for Business
• One option module