MAccFin (Hons) Accounting

Course details

This course sits within our Accounting & Finance framework, consisting of a range of specialised courses:

• MAccFinn (Hons) Accounting & Finance
• BA (Hons) Accounting
• BA (Hons) Accounting & Finance
• BA (Hons) Finance

Each of the courses in this framework will give you those vital core skills, as well as offering more specialist options depending on the pathway you choose to pursue. All courses' first year units are the same, allowing you the flexibility to transfer to another pathway at the end of the first year if you wish. This keeps your career options open and enables you to make more informed choices.

Contact hours and assessment 

Details of the assessment methods and contact hours for each unit of the course can be found in the programme specification. 

Download the programme specification (pdf 732kb)

If English is not your first language, you will have to provide evidence that you have been assessed in all four components of English (reading, writing, speaking and listening) to the required standard for your degree course. As a general rule, to be accepted onto any Bachelor’s or Master’s programme, you will need to have achieved a minimum of IELTS (Academic) 6.0 overall, with no less than 5.5 in each component. Our English Language Comparison Scores page provides comparison tables. 

To be accepted on to a research degree programme, you will need to have achieved an IELTS (Academic) score of 6.5 overall (with a minimum of 5.5 in each of the four component scores) or equivalent. It should be noted that the language requirement may be higher for some research degree programmes, in particular those which require a high level of communication skills.

Careers

This Integrated Master's degree in Accounting and Finance will prepare you for a variety of roles in organisations of all sizes and from many sectors. You'll have an excellent grounding in accounting before going on to specialise in business in your second year, ensuring that you keep your career options open.

Some of our alumni on finance courses go on to work for the likes of Airbus, Arcadia, Barclays Bank Plc, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, HMRC, IBM, Miscox, Threadneedle Investments and Vodafone, among many others.