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Introduction
Why choose this course?
Key features
 The Trading Room, where you can gain experience of a real-life trading floor environment on campus and online, with access to financial, company and economic data widely used in industry.
 Close links with employers and professional accounting bodies, providing you with opportunities for industry relevant sessions to enhance your employability.
 Benefit from lecturers with professional accountancy experience who bring real-life industry and practical knowledge to your lectures.
 Opportunities to take part in an international trip with DMU Global. Accounting and Finance students have previously been on trips to Wall Street in New York.
 Students have access to both Bloomberg and Refinitiv/Eikon self-study certifications and their online training materials. These are available to students via campus and online.
Overview
Accounting BSc (Hons) will provide you with a high level of technical knowledge to underpin your future career as a chartered accountant. It provides a focused UK higher education academic experience strongly linked to accounting in a practical environment and to the role of finance trained staff working in a variety of roles within the economy.
The aim of the programme is to balance theoretical knowledge with practical application to allow you to develop a critical and questioning approach to the wide range of issues and opportunities faced by accountants in their working environment. It will allow you to understand the conceptual underpinnings of the various areas associated with the role accounting plays in everyday business.
This programme and the exemptions obtained allow you to benefit from a reduction in the time and the cost involved with qualifying as Chartered Certified Accountants. Completion of the programme will gain you eight exemptions from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), as well as exemptions from CIMA. You will also have the opportunity to experience student life as part of the larger accounting and finance department in a vibrant, global focused university.
Modules
Financial Reporting and Accounting
This is a highly technical module intended to allow the development of skills required to prepare consolidated financial statements through application of relevant financial reporting standards. Additionally, candidates will understand how to calculate ratios from these statements, and use these calculations to effectively analyse the companies
Performance Management
This module is a mixture of highly-technical accounting techniques and a theoretical application of management accounting fundamentals. This will provide students with the knowledge to provide advice and support to internal stakeholders on financial based decisions.
Corporate Finance
By undertaking this module, students are introduced to the main principles of corporate financial decision-making. Analytically, using normative economic theory as the basic philosophical foundation, students are exposed to the four essential parts of business finance: Financing decisions, corporate investment decisions, the selection of a suitable dividend policy and the management and forecasting of working capital.
Taxation
This module introduces candidates to the subject of taxation and provides the core knowledge of the underlying principles and major technical areas of taxation as they affect the activities of individuals and businesses.
Critical Skills for Accountants
The module aims to provide students with an understanding of the academic and professional skills required to successfully navigate the UK Higher Education system and qualify as a chartered accountant. It will allow students to obtain and demonstrate their understanding of key business, academic and personal skills necessary for success.
Entry Criteria
ENTRY REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
Home Office Share Code
For EU students only.
If no Qualification
Please provide CV with at least 2 years of work experience, and employee reference letter.
Entry criteria
This is a top-up programme only available to students who have undertaken the equivalent of 240 credits at levels 4 and 5.
We welcome applications from mature students with non-standard qualifications and recognise all other equivalent and international qualifications where the previous professional qualifications or experience are within an accounting and finance role.
English language
If English is not your first language, an IELTS core of 6.0 (including a minimum of 5.5 in each component) or equivalent is normally required.
Assessment
ASSESSMENT METHODS
1. INTERNAL ENGLISH TEST if you don’t have an English accredited certificate
2. Academic interview
Teaching and assessment
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, case study analysis, audio-visual presentations, guest lectures and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (collaborative group work, such as presentations, phase tests, progress assessments and essays) and an exam, which is weighted as follows:
 Exam: 70 - 85%
 Coursework: 15 - 30%
Teaching contact hours
This is a full-time course and in total you should be prepared to devote approximately 38 hours a week to your studies.
Other: In addition each module provides two hours each week for individual consultation with the lecturer. You will also have timetabled meetings with your personal tutor and careers and/or subject meetings scheduled throughout the year.
Self-directed study: In order to prepare for, and assimilate, the work in lectures and seminars you will be expected to use our on-line resources, participate in flipped or virtual classroom discussions on our virtual learning environment (VLE) and engage in personal study and revision for approximately 25 hours per week.
Accreditations
Programme content is aligned with the requirements of four of the ACCA Applied Skills papers. This allows you to claim a total of eight ACCA Applied level exemptions upon the successful completion of your degree:
 Accountant in Business
 Management Accounting
 Financial Accounting
 Corporate and Business Law
 Performance Management
 Taxation
 Financial Reporting
 Financial Management
Completion of the Accounting BSc (Hons) programme will also allow you to claim exemptions for eight CIMA exams (up to and including the Operational level case study).
Career Opportunities
DMU Global
Our innovative international experience programme DMU Global aims to enrich studies, broaden cultural horizons and develop key skills valued by employers.
Through DMU Global, we offer an exciting mix of overseas, on-campus and online international experiences, including the opportunity to study or work abroad for up to a year.
Placements
Our optional paid placement year offers invaluable professional experience.
We can help you secure a placement through activities such as mock interviews and practice aptitude tests, and you will be assigned a personal tutor to support you throughout your placement.
We advertise posts in all locations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, including some international posts.
Our students have taken placements with companies such as Deloitte, Xerox, TNT, the NHS and Walt Disney.
Graduate careers
You will be prepared for a career in business in the public or private sectors.
Accounting combined with Economics develops skills that are in high demand in areas such as business, finance and the civil service.
Recent graduates have progressed to careers in positions such as Commercial Finance Analyst at Red Bull, Auditor at KPMG, Cost Technician at PepsiCo, Tax Processor at Grant Thornton and Financial Criminal Analyst at Barclays.
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