BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance

Overview

Become a highly-competent financial manager ready for the business world

Our BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance degree will introduce you to general management modules alongside specialist accounting and finance topics to prepare you to become a highly competent financial manager.

You will also gain valuable employment skills and learn to apply your theoretical studies to real-world projects on this course.

You will learn from experienced professionals and guest speakers, study work-based projects, and have opportunities to complete work experience in a one-year placement or ten-week placement in your final year.

Dedicated work placement options

Our work placement opportunities help build your confidence, experience, and your ability to stand out from the crowd in a competitive job market.

Small and interactive classes

Our small interactively taught seminars see you treated as individual, not just another face in the crowd and allows our tutors to get to know you and how best to help your academic and personal development.

ACCA Accredited programme

The Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA) accredit our BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance course. Successfully completing the relevant modules means you will be granted exemption from eight out of the nine ACCA’s exams.

This means you don’t have to start at the beginning to become ACCA registered and have already passed some of the modules required to pursue a solid financial career.

This BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance degree will introduce you to general management modules alongside specialist accounting and finance topics to prepare you to become a competent financial manager.

Attending university is about more than earning your degree. You will also gain valuable employment skills and learn to apply your theoretical studies to real-world projects on this course. You will learn from experienced professionals and guest speakers, study work-based projects, and have opportunities to complete work experience in a one-year placement or ten-week placement in your final year.

Careers

Where you could go after your studies

This BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance degree is ideal for you if you want to become a fully qualified accountant or if you want to work in general management with a high level of financial awareness. Many graduates from this course have gone into industry after they graduate, with many securing roles at accountancy firms. 

Further Study

You may decide to continue your studies to postgraduate level. 

You can apply for up to five different degree courses at up to five different institutions through UCAS (the national Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Your application is sent to all five universities at the same time.

Each course has a UCAS code that you will find on our course pages or in our prospectus. You will need to know the UCAS code for the course you want to apply for when you make your application. The UCAS code for the University of Chichester is (CHICH) C58.

For UCAS application deadlines please refer to the UCAS website.