Ready to kickstart a potentially exciting career in the expanding world of accounting and finance? An Accounting and Finance BSc(Hons) degree can set you up for success with a rounded education in financial management and business economics.
DurationReady to kickstart a potentially exciting career in the expanding world of accounting and finance? An Accounting and Finance BSc(Hons) degree can set you up for success with a rounded education in financial management and business economics.
You’ll study a wide range of subjects including:
You’ll also learn your trade and work in a real-life, state-of-the-art trading room, which simulates the real stock market.
Why study Accounting and Finance BSc (Hons):
You’ll be studying at an AACSB International-accredited Business School. Globally, fewer than six per cent of institutions offering business degrees achieve this accreditation. Additionally, to ensure that our graduates are equipped with integral skills in and knowledge of business operations and financial management, this course is professionally accredited by:
You can look forward to a high-quality education here, as your teachers rank in the top three in England for the proportion who hold doctorates (HESA 2022). You’ll benefit, too, from guest lectures from professionals with varied expertise in, for example, accounting, finance, and financial services.
After the second year of the course, you’ll put your knowledge and skills to the test in an optional 48-week work placement in your area of interest, in the UK or abroad, utilising our links with local, national, and international companies throughout many industries.
This course will prepare you for a variety of potentially exciting careers in a range of fields in the industry. You could work as a chartered accountant, an auditor, a business analyst, or a financial planner. You can even go on to work for non-profits, government agencies, banks or even insurance companies.
Course Detail:
Placements:
The course offers an optional one-year (48 weeks) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad.
Our Placement Office works with national and international employers to ensure excellent work experience opportunities are available to you on placement courses as well as giving advice in areas such as interview skills and preparing CVs and covering letters.
Previous placement providers have included Audit Partnership, Brosnans Chartered Accountants, Capita: Yorkshire Bank, Certis Accountants, DHL, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, H Accountancy, Haines Watts Leeds LLP, Kirklees Council, Lloyds Banking Group, L’Oréal, NHS England, PPG Architectural Coatings EMEA, Redmayne Bentley Stockbrokers, Rolls Royce, SA Chopdat Chartered Accountants, Sigma Chartered Accountants and Tax Advisors, Smart Accounts and Tax, The Symphony Group, Thornton and Ross, Walker and Sutcliffe Chartered Accountants and West Yorkshire Accountancy Services.
The placement year is a valuable tool that can enhance your employability and help you to develop as an individual. It is acknowledged that graduates with industry experience are generally much more attractive to employers.
Whatever you aim to do in life, it pays to get a good education. And with high standards of teaching and learning and excellent facilities that's exactly what our students can expect from the University of Huddersfield.
Based right in the town centre and at the heart of the local community, we help thousands of people, from school leavers to those returning to education after a gap, achieve their goals each year.
Excellence
The University of Huddersfield is a growing centre of research and excellence and we always push the boundaries of knowledge.
The University of Huddersfield has been rated Gold in all three aspects of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023. We were the only university in Yorkshire and the Humber and the North West to achieve Gold ratings in all three aspects of the TEF among those announced in September 2023. In fact only 13 other Universities, out of the 96 that were announced in September 2023, were Gold in all three ratings.
Further proof of teaching excellence; our staff rank in the top three in England for the proportion who hold doctorates, who have higher degrees, and hold teaching qualifications (HESA 2022). So, you’ll learn from some of the best, helping you to be the best.
We won the first Global Teaching Excellence Award recognising the University’s commitment to world-class teaching and its success in developing students as independent learners and critical thinkers (Higher Education Academy, 2017).
We are first in the country for National Teaching Fellowships, which mark the UK’s best lecturers in Higher Education, winning a total of 22 since 2008 (2023 data).
We've world-leading applied research groups in biomedical sciences, engineering and physical sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities.
The University of Huddersfield became the Times Higher Education University of the Year in November 2013. Judges highlighted the University’s outstanding record for student satisfaction and employability with the University placed in the top ten in the country in both categories. We asked our staff and students why they thought the University of Huddersfield won the University of the Year award. Here's what they said.
Employment
We have an impressive record for graduate employment, with 96.5% of our undergraduate and 96.6% of postgraduate students in work or further study within fifteen months after graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 2019/20, UK domiciled, other activities excluded).
The University places a great deal of importance on industry experience and therefore 100% of our undergraduate students have the opportunity to undertake professional work experience during their studies.
Enjoyable
Since 2008, £156 million has been spent on campus development making sure our students have access to some of the best facilities in the country. Our campus also has a vibrant social scene and we have a very active Students’ Union with more than 110 clubs and societies.
Enterprising
The University is growing its reputation as a leader in the field of enterprise. In 2012 the University was awarded the prestigious Times Higher Education Entrepreneurial University of the Year and followed this up in 2013 and 2022 when it was awarded a Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: International Trade.
Professor Liz Towns-Andrews, 3M Professor of Innovation, also received an individual Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion. Then in 2019 our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bob Cryan, won the Examiner Business Person of the Year award.
We have helped a number of graduates to set up their own successful businesses and have a fantastic Enterprise Team who are here to help students get their business ideas off the ground.
The Enterprise Hub, housed in the 3M Buckley Innovation Centre, is a great hub for students who wish to set up their own business and provides a great opportunity to network with other students and local businesses.
Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt's MA (Hons) Accountancy and Finance degree is accredited by all major professional accountancy bodies in the UK. The course prepare students for professional life and features Bloomberg Trading Terminals.
Be among the first to study at our new £16 million Brookfield campus, with state-of-the-art learning and facilities exclusive to Leicester School of Business students.
Our BSc (Hons) Finance degree is a great choice for anybody looking to excel in the finance industry or wanting to master the fundamentals of trading techniques and investment management.
Finance is about making and managing money. It can involve investing in the stock market, trading in currencies and derivatives, or making lending decisions in banks.
Global finance and its role in the world has never been more complex. Recent events have shown that it is more important than ever to have an understanding of the theory and logic behind the practice of financial decision-making, risk management and the behaviour of financial markets.
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