BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance with a Year Abroad

Course Overview

Understanding accounting and finance is vital to speaking the language of business. UEA’s Accounting and Finance with a Year Abroad degree will help you master this language, giving you a huge competitive advantage in the business world. People who are highly literate in accounting and finance often rise to the top of businesses.

In UEA’s Accounting and Finance with a Year Abroad BSc, you’ll learn financial accounting and reporting, and management accounting, alongside core business disciplines. This pairing will give you a broad foundation from which to enter a variety of career paths. Our teaching is constantly changing, informed by the fast-developing world of business and accounting research. At UEA, you’ll be at the cutting edge of the accounting and finance world. With this course option, you’ll also have the exciting opportunity to develop industry-specific skills overseas in a year abroad.

Throughout the course, you’ll develop your understanding of business finance and management accounting as you learn how to understand, interpret and act on the financial accounts of a variety of business structures. You’ll learn how to communicate an argument in a way that’s meaningful and persuasive to the key decision makers in that business. You’ll also learn how to use your professional judgment to understand and influence business decisions. You’ll even have the chance to explore how accounting influences wealth distribution in society, and how politics can influence accounting.

Our Norwich Business School is in a region that’s varied and welcoming, with a thriving business innovation and enterprise community. All our teaching is informed by both our world-leading research and our real-world business experience. That means you’ll gain knowledge of the key current issues for industry and employers.

After your degree, you’ll be well placed to enter a number of careers such as financial accountancy, management accountancy, auditing or tax planning. The expertise this degree gives you is also a great way into the financial services sector, opening up careers in investment banking, retail banking, fund management or insurance. If you’re interested in starting a business of your own, there’s no better foundation for individual entrepreneurship.

This course is open to

UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.

We welcome and value a wide range of qualifications, and we recognise that some students might take a mixture of different qualifications. We have listed typical examples that we accept for entry.

You should hold or be working towards the specified English and Mathematics requirements and one of the examples of typical entry qualifications listed below. If your qualifications aren’t listed, or if you are taking a combination of qualifications that isn’t specified, please contact Admissions.

English and Mathematics

All applicants must hold or be working towards GCSEs in English Language and Mathematics at minimum grade 4 or grade C.

We accept a wide range of English Language qualifications, please see our English Language equivalencies page.

Typical International Entry Requirements

We accept many international qualifications for entry to this course. For specific details about your country, view our information for International Students.

A levels

ABB

General Studies A Level is not accepted.

BTEC

Level 3 Extended Diploma: DDM

Combinations of BTEC and A levels

Extended Diploma: DDM

Diploma: DD plus B at A level.

Extended Certificate: D plus BB at A level.

BTEC in Public Services, Uniformed Services and Business Administration are all excluded from our BTEC offers

International Baccalaureate

32 points overall

INTO UEA

If you do not meet the academic and/or English language requirements for direct entry our partner, INTO UEA offers progression on to this undergraduate degree upon successful completion of a preparation programme. Depending on your interests, and your qualifications you can take a variety of routes to this degree.

English Foreign Language

Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading): 

• IELTS:  6.0  overall (minimum  5.5  in all components) 

We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.

Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.

  If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, INTO UEA offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study.

Deferred Entry

We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.

Admissions Policy

Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.

Employability

Norwich Business School is where great business careers begin. Our degrees have a proven track record of leading to successful careers in accounting, management and financial services.

You could go to work at major international companies such as Ernst & Young, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, Sky, Next, Unilever, Goldman Sachs, HSBC and IBM, in roles such as trainee accountant, business analyst, auditor, insurance broker and more. The skills you’ll gain on this course are valued by all employers, so a wide range of sectors will be open to you including banking, commerce and retail.

Examples of careers that you could enter include:

• Chartered accountant
• Financial accountant
• Auditor
• Investment banker
• Tax adviser
• Entrepreneur
  

Discover more on our Careers webpages.