BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance (Final Year Entry)

Course Overview

If you're looking to enhance your business qualifications and fast-track into the final year of an honours degree at a leading UK university, our BSc Accounting and Finance programme offers the competitive edge you need.

This degree provides an excellent pathway into the financial services sector, whether you're aiming for a career in investment banking, fund management, or insurance. Equally, if you aspire to be your own boss or contribute to a family business, our course offers the ideal foundation to support your ambitions.

This final-year entry course will build on your existing knowledge of business by exploring accounting and finance across a range of different contexts. You’ll study core modules designed to enhance your understanding of key theories and concepts, as well as their real-world application within different business environments. You’ll learn how to understand, interpret and act on financial accounts. You’ll learn how to put an argument across in a way that’s relevant to the main financial and non-financial drivers in a 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 power can influence accounting.

Here at UEA, you’ll study in Norwich Business School which is located in a vibrant and welcoming region with a dynamic community of business innovation and enterprise. Our teaching is driven by world-leading research and real-world business expertise, giving you insights into today’s most pressing issues.

Whether your goal is to become a financial accountant, auditor, or take on an accounting or finance role in any industry, this degree is for you. You'll gain the expertise and confidence to excel in various settings—whether in practice, working for an accounting firm to deliver auditing and accounting services, or in industry, managing the financial and accounting needs of a company.

Entry Requirements

Complete of the Advanced Diploma SQA/HND from the following routes:

• Business
• Business with Accounting
• Business with Human Resource Management
• Business with Information Technology
• Business with Marketing
• Financial Services
• Global Trade and Business

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.

Alternatively, you might choose to progress to a postgraduate degree or further study.

We work with UEA’s Careers Service to offer you support at every stage of your course, from choosing a career through to applying for graduate jobs and further study.

Examples of careers that you could enter include:

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

Discover more on our Careers webpages.