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BSc (Hons) Accounting and Financial Management with Foundation Year

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Key Points
Modules

  • Foundation Year Preparation: Acquire good academic habits and initial academic, theoretical knowledge in accounting and finance for subsequent years’ success.
  • Comprehensive Curriculum: Includes major aspects of accounting processes implemented in organizations as well as providing integrated information about the enterprise’s financial activities.
  • Practical Focus: Get internships, placements, and practical work projects to expose the students to live financial management experience.
  • Professional Development: Concentration on ethical practices, generally accepted accounting practices and use of accounting information in decision making.
  • Global Perspective: Learn all about the world’s financial systems, global accounting and what drives various markets around the world.
  • Path to Professional Accreditation: The course can afford exemption from some professional examinations including ACCA, CIMA or ICAEW; this puts a candidate on the track towards professional qualification.
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  • Foundation Year:

     

    • Academic Skills for Business and Finance: Acquire sound, properly researched, and academically sound critical thinking, research, and writing skills specific to finance and business.
    • Introduction to Accounting: Understand what techniques to use in the accounting system for recording or maintaining a company’s finances.
    • Foundations of Business: Discover the basic business ideas and the function of finance in the organization.

     

    Year 1:

     

    • Financial Accounting: Find out how to prepare other financial statements and the basic understanding of financial reporting.
    • Management Accounting: Learn about ways in which the management factors financial information for control and decision-making.
    • Business Law: Understand law concepts that apply to business especially in finance and accounting.

     

    Year 2:

     

    • Corporate Finance: Learn about the tactics of managing assets, liabilities and investing used by the corporations.
    • Taxation: Learn about the concepts of taxation, tax regimes and its application to taxpayers.
    • Financial Markets and Institutions: Evaluate the functions of financial markets, banks and regulatory institutions in current global environment.

     

    Year 3:

     

    • Auditing: Know the audits, risks and internal controls, legislation and regulation of audits.
    • Strategic Financial Management: Acquire specialized knowledge in financial management, risk, and return, with special reference to capital investment appraisal.
    • Dissertation or Major Project: Explore the area of his or her choice relating to accounting or financial management and conduct original research or complete a large scale project.

Career

Graduates from the BSc (Hons) Accounting and Financial Management with Foundation Year program have a wide range of career opportunities within the finance and accounting sectors:

 

  • Accountant: Job opportunities for graduates include Financial or Management accountants who verify proper financial records as well as provide insights on good decision making for organizational success. The students can become chartered accountants with further qualifications.
  • Financial Analyst: Employment in investment banking, corporate finance, or insurance companies where you have to study the financial facts and forecasting patterns in executing investment decisions for corporations.
  • Tax Advisor: Help organizations and people handle their taxes, understand difficult tax legal guidelines, and minimize their taxes.
  • Auditor: Perform the task of working in internal or external audit positions to assess company’s income statement and financial returns, and confirm that companies adhere to financial standards.
  • Financial Consultant: Provide consultancy services to companies, or persons on how to manage their money or invest their funds.
  • Corporate Finance Officer: Operate in major companies taking charge of financial and business processes, revenue planning and predicting, decisions on investments etc.
  • Investment Banker: Work in mergers and acquisition, on capital, in the organization’s or governments financings, assisting companies/ governments in raising capital.
  • Management Consultant: Consultancy to organizations on how to increase profitability, may be engaged in fields such as ad expenditure, expenditure review, budgeting and financial planning and control.
  • Forensic Accountant: Audit financial crimes, especially as part of a team of detectives and/or criminal investigators in situations involving financial crime.
  • Risk Manager: Learn about potential financial threats in the business environment and learn how to decrease their significance for the company with the help of special planning and protection measures.

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