Accounting and Finance BSc (Hons)

Through practical workshops and collaborative activities, you’ll learn how to communicate clearly, work with others respectfully and make purposeful use of technology in your learning. You’ll explore how to find and evaluate reliable information, use academic sources correctly, and reference your work following university guidelines.

You’ll also reflect on your own strengths, goals and areas for development. This will help you build self-awareness, support your wellbeing and develop as an independent learner.

Assessment includes a portfolio of tasks that demonstrate your developing academic skills where you will communicate your ideas clearly and appropriately. This may include workshop activities, short pieces of writing, or oral presentations.

You’ll work hands‑on with Excel, learning how to enter and manage data, use simple functions, format worksheets, adjust layouts, and create clear and meaningful charts. These practical skills will help you analyse information with confidence and communicate your findings to a range of audiences.

You’ll learn how numerical techniques support analysis and how to interpret results in ways that add value in real business settings.

Throughout the module, you’ll strengthen your analytical thinking and digital literacy, giving you a solid foundation for further study in business, finance, and management analytics.

Aligned with Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Financial accounting, you’ll explore the conceptual and regulatory framework that guides financial reporting. You'll develop your understanding of double‑entry bookkeeping through structured practice with recording transactions and processing events.

This module takes you through the preparation of financial statements for sole traders, partnerships, limited companies, and simple groups. You’ll work with reconciliations, adjustments, and error correction to understand how accurate financial information is produced.

You’ll also learn how to analyse and interpret financial statements using key ratio techniques, helping you make sense of an organisation’s performance and financial position.

Explore what management information is, how it differs from raw data, and how to present insights clearly and confidently. You’ll then develop your understanding of cost classification, cost behaviour, budgeting, standard costing, and the interpretation of variances.

Aligned with Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Management Accounting, you'll learn tools to help you understand how managers evaluate options and make informed choices.

You’ll learn to explain the purpose of management information, interpret and present data, and use costing, budgeting, and variance analysis to support organisational performance. This module also introduces short‑term and long‑term decision‑making techniques, including relevant costing, cost–volume–profit analysis, and investment appraisal.

Alighning with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Financial Reporting syllabus, you'll be prepared to explore the regulatory environment that shapes financial reporting.

You’ll examine how financial statements are prepared for both single entities and groups, and how business combinations are accounted for in practice. A key part of this module is applying IFRS standards to a wide range of transactions and events.

You’ll work through realistic scenarios that help you understand how standards operate and how they influence the presentation of financial information. You’ll develop your skills in analysing and interpreting financial statements, enabling you to evaluate organisational performance and financial position in a meaningful way.

You’ll explore how management information systems, big data, and emerging technologies support performance measurement in competitive and fast‑moving environments. This includes working with advanced costing methods, budgeting tools, and decision‑making techniques that help you interpret large datasets and performance indicators with confidence.

This module aligns with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Performance Management syllabus to focuse on how data analytics strengthens performance evaluation. You’ll learn how to assess risk, inform budgeting decisions, analyse variances, and evaluate performance across different organisational structures and contexts.

Sustainability and external influences are considered throughout, helping you understand the wider challenges that shape business performance and long‑term planning.

This module gives you a detailed understanding of the UK taxation framework and how it applies to individuals, companies, and corporate groups.

You'll take a look at income tax, corporation tax, National Insurance Contributions, value‑added tax (VAT), chargeable gains on asset disposals, and inheritance tax on lifetime transfers and on death.

Designed in accordance with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) syllabus, practical exercises and case studies will help your skills.

You'll calculate tax liabilities accurately, interpret legal tax obligations, and understand the compliance requirements placed on individuals and businesses. You’ll also examine the consequences of non‑compliance and the responsibilities involved in meeting statutory duties.

This module gives you an integrated introduction to entrepreneurship, innovation, and business law, helping you understand how new ideas and legal frameworks shape modern business practice. You’ll learn how to recognise opportunities, develop business models, test ideas with real audiences and assess financial viability.

Working both independently and collaborating in groups, you'll develop skills that apply to start‑ups and established organisations.

The business law component introduces you to the legal environment governing business in the UK. You’ll explore the structure of English law, court systems, and the legislative process, before examining key areas such as contract and employment law, company and insolvency law, and intellectual property. You’ll also look at legally relevant financial offences including insider dealing, money laundering, bribery, cybercrime, and fraudulent trading.

You'll recognise legal risks, understand compliance responsibilities and know when specialist legal advice is needed.

This module will see you investigate the statutory and regulatory environment that shapes audit practice, including corporate governance expectations and the ethical responsibilities auditors must follow.

You'll look at the planning stages of an audit; helping you understand how risks are assessed and how potential misstatements are identified.

You’ll examine internal control systems in depth and work with a range of audit testing techniques, with a strong emphasis on evaluating audit evidence and understanding how final audit reports are produced in line with International Standards on Auditing (ISAs).

You’ll examine leadership theories alongside governance codes and the ethical frameworks that support accountable financial decision‑making.

This module places strong emphasis on sustainability, risk oversight and audit expectation. The role of transparent reporting in maintaining stakeholder trust will be analysed alongside how organisations communicate performance and manage risk.

Case studies and real‑world disclosures help you assess governance challenges and understand how leaders respond to regulatory, ethical, and sustainability pressures.

Through applied activities, you’ll develop the judgement, analytical skills, and ethical awareness needed for leadership roles in accounting, finance, and corporate governance.

This module equips you with the financial management skills needed to operate confidently in a digitally driven corporate environment.

You'll examine the strategic role of finance within organisations and the impact of wider economic conditions on financial decision‑making. Working with key areas such as working capital management, investment appraisal and business valuation techniques, digital tools and data analytics will help you understand how technology enhances modern financial analysis.

Risk management is covered in depth, combining traditional approaches with emerging digital methods. You’ll also consider the ethical, regulatory, and sustainability responsibilities that shape financial practice today.

You'll gain a detailed and practical overview of the financial and accounting principles used to understand how organisations perform in today’s fast‑moving business environment.

You’ll explore how financial information is created, interpreted and used by investors and stakeholders. This will build your confidence to analyse real companies and assess their position in the market.

The module is delivered in two linked stages:
In the first stage, you’ll complete a market and company analysis of a publicly listed firm. You’ll investigate its industry, competitive environment, and wider economic influences and use this information to understand the context behind the company’s performance. This stage helps you see why financial results look the way they do and how external pressures shape strategic choices.

In the second stage, you’ll work directly with the company’s financial statements. You’ll carry out horizontal and vertical analysis to explore trends, identify changes, and understand how different parts of the business contribute to overall performance. You’ll use a range of analytical tools to deepen your insight, including ratio analysis and the DuPont model.

A major part of the module focuses on non‑financial information and its growing importance in corporate reporting. You’ll learn how transparent reporting supports investor trust and helps organisations communicate their long‑term impact.

By the end, you’ll have gained practical experience and a strong foundation for further study or professional roles in accounting, finance, or corporate reporting.