BSc (Hons) Accountancy And Finance

Throughout this industry-focused degree you'll engage with specific areas of finance that interest you and explore both national and international markets to gain a firm understanding of the global economy. 

You'll also have access to our Bloomberg suite, which delivers real-time business and market news, data, and analysis to the world's leading industries and companies to support critical financial and strategic decision making. 

Use of the Bloomberg suite is embedded into the curriculum, meaning you'll be at the cutting edge of financial analysis and skills development to help further boost your employability prospects.

You'll also be encouraged to put theory into practice by working on real-life business scenarios, with opportunities to co-design and project-manage a series of business events to build networking skills, meet employers, and discuss key business topics, such as diversity and inclusion, digital transformation and the future of the business landscape, and leadership.

Solent's accountancy and finance degree has strong connections with industry and is accredited by a number of professional bodies. The course content is designed and reviewed in collaboration with industry experts. 

Our Business Advisory Board, chaired by Pete Markey, Chief Marketing Officer at Boots, is made up of senior leaders across a variety of industries who help to inform our curriculum development, student success, and business development.

The degree is also part of Solent's Business School, which won the Outstanding Higher Education Provider of the Year at the 2022 CMI Awards in recognition of our outstanding positive impact on student employability, enriched experience, and professional development.

Solent University is a place of study for students from all over the world. Learning with students from different backgrounds, you'll explore new points of view in contemporary discussions and debates, and get a feel for the international workplace.

Who Is This Course For? 

This course is ideal for anyone who is hoping to pursue a career in the wide range of jobs related to accountancy and finance sector which is a huge industry area.

What Does This Course Lead To? 

Our graduates go on to become accountants, auditors, tax specialists, financial analysts, fund managers, business advisers and entrepreneurs. Recent graduates have found roles at Deloitte, Smith and Williamson, Estee Lauder and John Lewis, among others.

What You'll Study:

• Year one
• Core modules
• Positive Psychology for Success
• Lay strong foundations for study and employment success. Build your academic, employability and independent learning skills, and put together a personal professional development (PPD) plan to stay agile, adaptable and future ready.
• Data Analysis, Tools and Application
• Explore how digital technology has fundamentally reshaped traditional business, and how businesses try to keep up. Learn to collect, analyse, and interpret data, and to present your findings effectively.
• Marketing, Sales and Negotiation Skills
• Discover the critical role of marketing in business, from understanding customers’ motivations to engagement to measuring effectiveness. Learn key marketing concepts and terminology, explore digital and content marketing, and more.
• Accounting Skills
• A fundamental understanding of how systems and processes operate is essential for the accountant. This module teaches the basics of manual and computerised accounting, from double entry book-keeping to various accounting packages, accounting controls, suspense accounts, payroll, and more.
• Introduction to Financial Reporting
• This module builds on the techniques developed in Accounting Skills, exploring accounting regulation and teaching you how to prepare key financial statements – income, financial position and cashflow statements – for organisations large and small.
• Introduction to Management Accounting
• Management accounting provides financial and non-financial information that will help managers make good decisions. This module covers introductory aspects of accounting related to control and decision-making within business organisations, focusing on using relevant techniques to address various business management problems.
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• Year two
• Core modules
• Financial Reporting
• Through this module you will learn the need for regulation over the quality of financial reporting and the regulatory framework within which financial statements are prepared.
• Financial Management
• This module will introduce you to the function, principles, and techniques of financial management. In particular, it will focus on the relationship between companies seeking to raise finance, and the investors who provide that finance.
• Taxation Principles
• You will develop a curiosity to understand and critique the impact of this evolving taxation environment. The knowledge gained can be used for a career in practice, industry or for your own personal tax affairs.
• Management Accounting
• This module will focus on the accounting concepts and techniques relevant to the provision of management information for planning, control and performance evaluation purposes.
• The UK Financial System
• This module is concerned with the analysis of financial institutions and markets in the UK, which are crucially important for the operation of a successful modern economy.
• Optional modules
• Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.
• Audit Principles
• Through this module you will become familiar with the methodologies required through the audit process and learn how to draft an audit report.
• Capital Market Trading
• Understand money and the markets in our globalised economy. Explore the language of finance; test and observe diverse investment strategies; and learn how key information can dramatically affect share prices.
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• Final year
• Core modules
• The International Financial System
• This module investigates the international financial system. Including; how banks really work, how to manage the economy, how countries should relate to each other and how developing countries can successfully develop.
• Advanced Management Accounting
• This module will provide you with a wide range of techniques to enable you as a future manager to make quality decisions.
• Corporate Financial Management
• This module focuses on a stock exchange quoted company and how corporate finance theories and practices can enhance performance. It takes an integrated view of how financing and investment decisions contribute to shareholders’ wealth creation.
• Advanced Financial Reporting
• Through this module you will evaluate current financial reporting practices and information produced by listed companies, including groups.
• Optional modules
• Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.
• International Financial Reporting and Analysis
• Keep up to date with financial reporting practices in an ever-changing global environment. Explore contrasts between regional accounting styles, and investigate challenges in business performance analysis across national boundaries.
• Current Audit Issues
• This module will explore the expectations placed on the auditor and consider whether they have ‘failed’ in some cases.
• Taxation Practice
• Through this module you will develop advanced practical tax planning skills. Focus will be on the interaction of the various taxes to provide tax planning solutions.
• Ecological Economics
• Business needs to change – fast. As a future manager and leader, you will consider climate change and the underlying economics, critically evaluating proposed solutions and their ecological and economic impacts.