Business Management and Accounting BSc (Hons)
- Accounting and finance
- Business, management and marketing
- Undergraduate
Want to build a career in business while developing strong accounting skills? At Kingston Business School, you’ll combine an understanding of how organisations work with the financial knowledge needed to make real-world business decisions with confidence. Keep your options open with the practical experience, commercial awareness and digital skills to explore a range of career paths when you graduate.
What is a business management and accounting degree?
A Business Management and Accounting degree combines a broad understanding of business with a strong grounding in accounting. You’ll learn how organisations operate, make decisions and plan for the future, while developing the financial knowledge to understand performance and make confident business decisions.
At Kingston, you’ll study accounting alongside areas such as strategy, marketing, project management, sustainability and business analytics. This gives you the chance to build strong financial knowledge while keeping your options open across business, management and accounting.
The course can prepare you for roles in management accounting, audit and financial analysis, as well as wider careers in consultancy, operations, project management and business analysis.
What will you gain?
You’ll learn how to prepare and interpret financial information, understand what it tells you about business performance and use it to support better decisions. Alongside this, you’ll develop the wider management, commercial and digital skills employers look for.
Where could it take you?
You could build a career in accounting or finance, or use your combined business and financial knowledge in areas such as consultancy, project management, operations and business analysis.
At a glance
- Three years full time, with the option to add a professional placement or study-abroad year.
- Study accounting alongside strategy, marketing, project management, sustainability and business analytics.
- Gain exemptions from six CIMA exams, helping you progress more quickly towards the CIMA Professional Qualification.
- Study at AACSB-accredited Kingston Business School.
Professional qualifications and exemptions
Kingston’s Business Management and Accounting BSc is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
Gain exemptions from six CIMA exams, including all four Certificate in Business Accounting exams (BA1-BA4), plus P1 Management Accounting and F1 Financial Reporting, helping you progress more quickly towards the CIMA Professional Qualification.
- BA1 – Fundamentals of Business Economics
- BA2 – Fundamentals of Management Accounting
- BA3 – Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
- BA4 – Fundamentals of Ethics, Corporate Governance and Business Law
- P1 Management Accounting
- F1 Financial Reporting
These exemptions recognise the accounting knowledge you develop during your degree and reduce the number of CIMA exams you need to complete if you choose to continue towards the professional qualification after graduation.
Why choose this course
Get the best of both worlds with a degree that combines a strong grounding in accounting with the wider business knowledge to take your career in different directions. You’ll build your financial expertise alongside strategy, marketing, project management, sustainability and business analytics, giving you the flexibility to explore careers both within and beyond accountancy.
From business simulations, live briefs from employers and case studies to presentations, group projects and practical challenges, you’ll be putting what you learn into action throughout your degree. At Level 5, you’ll take part in a CIMA Business Game, working as a team to tackle a realistic management accounting challenge and present your recommendations.
You’ll also build confidence using tools including Excel and Bloomberg, developing your ability to work with financial and business data and use it to make better-informed decisions.
And you won’t have to wait until graduation to start thinking about your career. Guest speakers, employer engagement and careers activities will help you build your professional confidence and connections, while Kingston’s Future Skills programme will help you develop and demonstrate skills such as problem-solving, digital competency and adaptability. Using PebblePad, you can reflect on your development and build evidence of your skills to share with future employers.
Accreditations
Study at a business school accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
You’ll study at Kingston Business School, which holds AACSB accreditation – a globally recognised mark of quality earned by just 6% of business schools worldwide. It recognises the high standard of Kingston’s business education and degree programmes.
This course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
The Business Management and Accounting BSc is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), recognising the accounting knowledge and skills built into the course.
See the Professional qualifications and exemptions section on this page for full details of the CIMA exemptions available on this degree.
Ready for business
At Kingston Business School, we believe that professional success is shaped by honing your personal capacity and skillset, supported by the academic framework of knowledge. Through vocationally rich, employer-engaged and research-informed courses, we work alongside our students to help them meet personal goals and career ambitions.
Course overview
Prepare for your future career on the doorstep of London
Kickstart your career in business and accounting with Kingston University.
Located on the doorstep of London, one of the world's largest financial hubs, our partnerships with global organisations give you access to meaningful opportunities.
You’ll study within the Department of Accounting, Finance and Informatics, alongside students exploring areas including accounting, banking, finance, investment and financial technology. Throughout your degree, you’ll combine your accounting knowledge with a broader understanding of business and put what you learn into practice.
Take on real-world business challenges
In your second year, you'll work as part of a team on the CIMA Business Game, tackling a realistic management accounting challenge and presenting your recommendations. You'll also have opportunities to work on live briefs set by employers, with recent examples including Lindt. The CIMA Business Game is assessed, and you'll receive a certificate of attendance that you can add to your LinkedIn profile.
Put your learning into practice
Through case studies, collaborative projects, presentations and practical business challenges, you’ll analyse problems, make decisions and develop the confidence to communicate your ideas.
Use professional financial technology
Kingston is one of only a few UK universities to have a Bloomberg Trading Room. You’ll have opportunities to use Bloomberg terminals to analyse financial and economic data and complete Bloomberg certification.
Learn from people connected to business
Guest speakers and wider industry engagement will give you opportunities to hear how organisations approach the commercial, financial and management challenges you explore during your degree.
What are the facilities like?
When you join Kingston University, you will have access to a wide range of facilities and resources designed to support your studies. Use the virtual tour below to explore some of the facilities and learning environments that students within this subject area may experience during their studies.
Future Skills
Kingston students put their business skills to the test with Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
See Kingston's sector-leading Future Skills programme in action
Business Management and Accounting students took part in the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Business Game, tackling a realistic business challenge that put their decision-making, analytical and teamwork skills to the test.
- Tackle a real-world business scenario. Students analysed the challenges facing a fictional UK housebuilder, exploring opportunities including sustainable housing, international expansion and improving operational efficiency.
- Make informed business decisions. Working in teams, students evaluated investment opportunities, weighed up financial risks and potential returns, and prioritised their recommendations.
- Present under pressure. With just one hour to analyse the case and prepare their recommendations, students delivered a seven-minute presentation explaining and justifying their decisions.
For second-year student Alishba, the experience helped build confidence in analysing complex information, working collaboratively and communicating recommendations under pressure.
The Game helped to build new professional relationships and improve my confidence when working with others."
What you will study
A Business Management and Accounting degree combines the study of business management with specialist accounting and financial skills.
At Kingston, you’ll study:
- Financial and management accounting
- Business strategy and strategic management
- Marketing and sales
- Data analytics and business intelligence
- Project management
- Sustainable and responsible business
- Auditing and assurance
- Business law, ethics and corporate governance.
You’ll see how these different areas connect, building the financial knowledge to understand business performance alongside the wider management skills to use that information to support decisions.
You’ll put your learning into practice through case studies, collaborative projects, business simulations, placement opportunities and wider industry engagement.
Take a look at some of the content and modules that you may have the opportunity to study on this course.
Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.
Foundation Year in Business
Not quite ready to start Year 1 of your BSc (Hons) degree?
Our foundation year can help you build the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to progress to the first year of your degree.
You’ll study at Kingston College, close to Kingston University’s Penrhyn Road campus, exploring topics including professional skills, numerical concepts, business IT, marketing, customer care and business law.
Year 1
In your first year, you’ll build the foundations of both accounting and business. Over the course of the year, you will:
- Develop your understanding of financial and management accounting.
- Learn how financial information is prepared and used to monitor business performance.
- Use data, mathematics and technology to solve business problems.
- Explore how organisations operate within wider economic, legal, social and technological environments.
Core modules
Year 2
In Year 2, you’ll build on your accounting knowledge while developing a broader understanding of how businesses make decisions and create value. Over the course of the year, you will:
- Develop more advanced management accounting skills and explore how financial information supports business decision-making.
- Build your understanding of marketing, sales and customer value.
- Use business analytics and digital intelligence to investigate problems and support better-informed decisions.
- Develop practical skills in project management, sustainability and responsible business practice.
Core modules
Optional year
Between Year 2 and your final year, you can choose to take an additional year to study abroad, undertake a year-long professional placement or combine elements of both.
It’s an opportunity to apply what you’ve learned in a different setting, broaden your experience and develop skills such as adaptability, problem-solving and professional confidence before returning for your final year.
Professional placement year
You can choose to undertake a professional placement year between Year 2 and your final year.
A placement gives you the opportunity to apply your business and accounting knowledge in a professional setting, gain valuable workplace experience and build evidence for your CV before you graduate.
Final year
In your final year, you’ll bring together your accounting and business knowledge and develop the strategic thinking needed for your future career. Over the course of the year, you will:
- Deepen your understanding of financial accounting, reporting and the interpretation of corporate financial statements.
- Explore auditing and assurance, including risk, internal controls and professional responsibilities.
- Examine business law, ethics and corporate governance.
- Develop your understanding of business strategy and long-term decision-making.
- Continue building your professional confidence and Future Skills as you prepare for employment or further study.
Core modules
Inside the Department of Accounting, Finance and Informatics
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International students: direct application
Are you an international student? Have you decided Kingston is the place for you? If so, you can apply for this course directly, rather than having to go through UCAS.
What career opportunities does this course offer?
Careers with a business management and accounting degree
A business management and accounting degree gives you the flexibility to build a career in accounting and finance, or take your financial understanding into a wider business role.
You’ll graduate with knowledge of how financial information supports planning and decision-making, alongside broader skills in strategy, project management, analytics and responsible business. That combination can open up opportunities across accountancy, finance, consultancy, operations and wider management.
Industry tools and technology
Accounting and business are increasingly shaped by data and technology. On this course, you’ll build confidence using tools and platforms that support financial analysis, business decision-making and professional practice.
Work with accounting and financial software
You’ll gain practical experience using Sage in your first-year Financial Accounting for Business module, helping you understand how accounting information is recorded and managed in practice.
You’ll also use Excel in Business Information Analysis and in your second-year accounting study, developing your ability to organise, analyse and interpret financial and business information.
Use Bloomberg and financial market data
You’ll have opportunities to use Bloomberg terminals in Kingston’s Bloomberg Trading Room and complete Bloomberg certification.
You’ll also have access to Refinitiv for additional financial and mergers and acquisitions data, giving you further exposure to the kinds of market intelligence platforms used across finance and business.
Build technical and business skills
Alongside your accounting knowledge, you’ll develop skills including:
- Preparing and interpreting financial information
- Management accounting
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Analysing business performance
- Using financial information to support decisions
- Strategic thinking and commercial awareness
- Leadership and teamwork
- Project management
- Problem-solving and communication
- Data analysis and business intelligence
- Digital literacy and innovation
You’ll develop these through case studies, group work, presentations, business simulations, practical projects and analytical work.
This gives you experience of using financial information, digital tools and wider business skills together, helping prepare you for the technology-driven environments of modern accounting, finance and business.
Future Skills
Our Future Skills programme is embedded within all our undergraduate courses and throughout the whole Kingston experience. These skills will help you to become a future-proof graduate by equipping you with the skills most valued by employers, such as problem-solving, digital competency and adaptability.
As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills. You’ll also understand how to demonstrate and articulate to employers how these future skills give you the edge.
Key features
Future Skills
We don’t just teach you a subject – we prepare you for career success in a fast-changing world.
Whichever course you take at Kingston, you’ll master the Future Skills employers are looking for.
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Adobe Creative Campus
As a Kingston student, you’ll have access to Adobe Creative Campus, giving you free use of industry-standard creative tools like Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro.
You’ll be supported to build your digital and creative skills, whatever your course or experience level.
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TEF Gold
We're rated Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), recognising our outstanding teaching, student experience and graduate outcomes.
This reflects our commitment to helping every student at Kingston achieve their goals.
Teaching and assessment
Scheduled learning and teaching on this course includes timetabled activities including lectures, seminars and small group tutorials.
The Kingston Business School experience
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Fees and funding
Additional course costs
Some courses may require additional costs beyond tuition fees. When planning your studies, you’ll want to consider tuition fees, living costs, and any extra costs that might relate to your area of study.
Your tuition fees include costs for teaching, assessment and university facilities. So your access to libraries, shared IT resources and various student support services are all covered. Accommodation and general living expenses are not covered by these fees.
Where applicable, additional expenses for your course may include:
Scholarships and bursaries
For students interested in studying this course at Kingston, there are several opportunities to seek funding support.
Course changes and regulations
The information on this page reflects the currently intended course structure and module details. To improve your student experience and the quality of your degree, we may review and change the material information of this course. Find out more about course changes
Specifications for this course are published ahead of each academic year.
Regulations governing this course can be found on our website.
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