BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance with foundation year

This extended course is perfect if you want a degree in Accounting and Finance but you don’t meet the standard entry requirements. We prepare you for your degree during the Foundation year, bringing you up to speed with academic skills and a firm grounding in the subject. You can then go on to study for the full undergraduate degree. One of only a few courses in London that’s accredited by six accountancy bodies, the course will fast-track you on the path to becoming a qualified accountant. The qualification will open up a career in virtually any business or organization in the private, public or voluntary sectors.

Foundation Year

• Developing Academic Skills
• Developing Academic Literacy
• Mental Wealth: Employability in a Changing World
• Inside Business
• Global Business and Enterprise
• Connecting to Business and Employment through Volunteering

Year 1

• Mental Wealth 1: Academic and Digital Proficiency
• Fundamentals of Economics
• Fundamentals of Business Accounting
• People and Organisations
• Business Statistics and Data Analysis
• Business Law

Year 2

• Mental Wealth 2: Graduate Employment Competencies
• Intermediate Financial Reporting
• Taxation
• Financial Management
• Performance Management Accounting
• Accounting and Tax Clinic

Year 3

• Mental Wealth 3: Global Enterprise and Consultancy
• Advanced Financial Reporting
• Corporate Finance
• Strategic Management Accounting
• Corporate Social Responsibility & Ethics
• Auditing

Employability

The kind of roles that you can expect to be open to you after graduation include:

• Financial accountant
• Management accountant
• Budget controller
• Tax advisor
• Internal or external auditor.

In addition to large accounting and consultancy firms, other financial services institutions such as banks, building societies, and insurance companies are in the market for well-qualified, ambitious accounting, and finance graduates. This degree will also leave your well placed to find employment in any other commercial sector, from retail and manufacturing to pharmaceuticals and utilities. You could also work for a charity or in the public sector.