The financial services sector is full of opportunity for anyone equipped with the right tools. This course will help you take the first steps in the right direction. You’ll start off getting a good grounding in financial theory and practice
The financial services sector is full of opportunity for anyone equipped with the right tools. This course will help you take the first steps in the right direction. You’ll start off getting a good grounding in financial theory and practice, studying a range of key areas including risk management, ethical behaviour, commercial and investment banking and managing finances. You’ll then explore specialist areas in more depth including retail banking, corporate finance and in the industries most influential institutions.
We have a Higher Education Alignment with the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). The alignment with the CII gives undergraduate students in finance the opportunity to gain a CII qualification, in addition to their university degree through self-directed study, at a reduced academic rate.
You’ll be taught by leading academics and professionals who advise organisations like AJ Bell, the United Nations, HMRC and the World Trade Organization. Not only is everything we teach rooted in real-world experience and expertise, but we’ve designed the course to give you the kind of transferrable skills employers across the industry demand.
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Here to make an impact on Manchester, our nation and beyond, with a driving ambition to discover and disseminate knowledge, and make higher education accessible and beneficial to all those with the passion and ability to succeed.
Our purpose
Transforming lives through the power of education and research.
Our ambition
We will harness our creativity and confidence to enrich our students’ lives, raise the impact of our excellent education and research, and project its application to Manchester and the world.
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Our strategy - Research with impact
Our excellent research and knowledge exchange will help to address the grand challenges of our time, delivering local, national and global impact.
We will develop those areas of research where we have the greatest strength and opportunity. By 2030, we will have several research areas with significant critical mass that are internationally recognised as amongst the best.
Our research will drive our international reputation, so we can attract and retain high-quality staff. It will also inform our educational offer.
We will grow research funding, reflecting our areas of research excellence, so our activities are intellectually and financially sustainable.
We will apply our research strengths to regional, national and global challenges, in partnership with industry, government, public bodies and other external organisations.
We will deliver an exciting, inclusive, and supportive research environment for our postgraduate research students, supported by diverse external funding.
Finance and accounting professionals are vital to all functions of a business. If you aspire to become a certified accountant or want to work in the finance sector, our Finance and Accounting degree will not only give you the essential tools to launch your career in the industry
This degree thinks beyond the numbers and makes sure your learning is applicable to real-life situations by giving you both theoretical and practical skills and knowledge.
Accounting & Finance at King’s College London covers foundations of general management as well as accounting and finance in the first year while offering more specialist content throughout the rest of the degree.
This course enables you to make sense of a range of important real-world issues affecting our everyday lives and improve your decision-making skills in ways that are distinctive to the disciplines of accounting and finance.
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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