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Introduction
Why choose this course?
Key features
 You will have the opportunity to gain exemptions from some professional accountancy exams with the ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW, CPA Australia, CIPFA and AIA subject to any module-specific criteria, which gives you a great start towards gaining your professional qualification.*
 Acquire the knowledge and critical appreciation of contemporary theories, concepts, values, principles, tools and rules of accounting and business within a range of international and organisational contexts, including the political, legal, economic, social, environmental and technical environment.
 Gain a practical insight into markets and trading with our Trading Room, which gives you access to industry-standard software to analyse share prices and company performance.
 Develop an understanding of the relationship between accounting theory and empirical testing and apply this knowledge through assessments, including exams, group work, portfolios and presentations.
 Students have secured year-long placements in companies such as VW, Microsoft, Bosch, IBM, Pfizer, HSBC and Siemens through our award-winning Careers Team, who provide exceptional support to help you plan your career path.
 Benefit from Education 2030, where a simplified ‘block learning’ timetable means you will study one subject at a time and have more time to engage with your learning, receive faster feedback and enjoy a better study-life balance.
Overview
More than ever, the world needs flexible and prepared thinkers, ready to build financially robust businesses that can deal with the unexpected and cope in a crisis. This challenging degree will build on strong analytical skills, exploring the economics of markets such as money, capital, risk management, and modern finance theory in business.
The Accounting with Business Management programme seeks to develop skills in analysis, problem-solving and organisation management which are of value in an ever-changing working environment. Accounting is explored in depth and broadened by the development of links with other disciplines such as Business, Management, Law and Technology.
The determination to increase your employability is at the heart of everything we do. Our programme is structured to address many of the competence requirements of professional accounting bodies and to give students a range of learning experiences tailored to careers in accounting. Plus, our Accounting Simulation module prepares you for a career in accounting or finance environments. You will apply your knowledge, skills and values in an employment simulation where you will develop an ability to determine relevant information and select appropriate knowledge and methods for decision-making, mimicking real-world scenarios.
Throughout the course we will expand your understanding of business concepts, ideas, models and methods, with strong focus on strategic management. This valuable expertise will help you to stand out in roles in corporations, finance, and the civil service, in the competitive business world.
Modules
Year 1
Block 1: Accounting in the Business Environment
This module introduces the fundamentals of a business environment and how the accounting function fits within that environment. The module will provide students with an understanding of the areas of economic activity relevant to an organisation’s decisions and, within this context, the numerical techniques to support such decisions.
Students will go on to learn the professional standards to be demonstrated for the benefit of all stakeholders through the study of ethics and ethical conflict, the role of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and audit, and their increasing impact in the management of organisations. Wherever business is conducted the legal and administrative framework underpins commercial activity. Therefore, areas of contract law, employment law, administration and management of companies is considered.
Block 2: Accounting for Organisational Performance
This module is designed to give students an appreciation of accounting and business techniques including future value, present value. Students will apply the knowledge and skills of digital business information in a various of ways to improve efficiency and enhance organisational performance.
Block 3: Financial Accounting
This module is designed to provide students with an understanding of the underlying principles and concepts of financial accounting, accounting techniques and the knowledge of the preparation of basic financial statements.
Block 4: Management Accounting
This module teaches students fundamental knowledge and techniques that underpin management accounting. The module presents the role of management accounting in the contexts of commercial and public sector bodies and its wider role in society.
Year 2
Block 1: Organisational Behaviour and Leadership
This module examines the fundamentals of business models and how new business and operating models can be developed to improve the performance of organisations. As human capital is one of the key intangible assets of organisations, leadership is a crucial means for managing individual performance and the relationships between people. This module examines how different styles of leadership can be used to improve the performance of individuals so they can achieve organisational goals.
Within modern businesses projects have become a dominant means by which private and public sector organisations execute their strategies. The module shows students how to use project management concepts and techniques to implement strategies effectively and efficiently. The importance of embedding sustainability in the business models will be included.
Block 2: International Financial Reporting and Business Taxation
Students will develop knowledge and skills to analyse and interpret financial statement including group accounting to improve organisation’s value-creation and preservation. Within the public finance understand concepts of fiscal sustainability and role of tax policy in achieving SDG goals.
Block 3: Digital Business and Data Analytics
This module considers the modern business environment from a digital perspective, and how this affects management. It delivers an understanding of the technologies affecting business and how these can be used to enhance business performance. Students will learn to apply data manipulation techniques in order to meet an organisation’s reporting needs. These will discuss applications in both the public and private sectors.
Block 4: Performance Measurement and Decision Making
This module teaches students accounting techniques and a theoretical application of management accounting fundamentals. Students will develop knowledge and skills in the application of management accounting techniques to quantitative and qualitative information for planning, decision-making, performance evaluation and control. This will include the public and private sectors and meeting of relevant SDGs.
Year 3
Block 1: Strategic Management and Governance
This module will examine the foundation of strategic management and provide an understanding of the dynamics of the organisational ecosystem and how it affects the strategy of the organisation. This includes strategic choice and how options are generated, linking them to the purpose, values and vision of the organisation and how the options are evaluated, chosen and integrated coherently to form the strategy of the organisation. The module utilises a business simulation to allow students to manage a business and discover how strategy is implemented, how implementation objectives are achieved and how change is managed. Integral to the module are the technologies that underpin digital transformation and various elements of digital strategy.
Block 2: Financial Strategy
This module teaches students long-term strategic decision making. Students will develop knowledge and skills to support organisational leaders to formulate strategy, evaluate and manage risks that might prevent organisations from successfully implementing strategy, value organisations, and source financial resources required to implement of strategy.
Block 3
Project Management for Sustainable Business
This module leads students through the path of project management, highlighting the tools and techniques necessary to undertake a project in a business environment in the private and public sectors. As the module progresses, teams of students will apply the lessons learned to a business project situation. This module will enhance employability skills and develop students’ confidence in their ability to manage complexity.
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Accounting Simulation
This module prepares students for employment in accounting or finance environments. It requires them to apply their knowledge, skills and values in an employment simulation. Students will develop an ability to determine relevant information and select appropriate knowledge and methods for decision making. Their decisions will be communicated using written, verbal and oral communication methods.
Block 4: Critical Risk Management
This is a highly-technical modules that teaches students accounting techniques to evaluate strategic risks and how oversight of the risks is critical to the governance of organisations. Students will develop knowledge and skills in the techniques used to identify, analyse, remedy and report strategic risks.
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
GCSEs
 Five GCSEs at grade 4 or above including English and Maths
Plus one of the following:
A levels
 A typical offer is 112 UCAS points. You need to study at least two subjects at A Level or equivalent (e.g. BTEC)
T Levels
 Merit
BTEC
 BTEC National Diploma - Distinction/Distinction/Merit
 BTEC Extended Diploma - Distinction/Distinction/Merit
Alternative qualifications include:
 Pass in the QAA accredited Access to HE overall 112 UCAS tariff with at least 30 L3 credits at Merit.
 English and Maths GCSE required as separate qualification. Equivalency not accepted within the Access qualification. We will normally require students to have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course.
 International Baccalaureate: 26+ points.
Mature students
We welcome applications from mature students with non-standard qualifications and recognise all other equivalent and international qualifications.
English language requirements
If English is not your first language an IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 5.5 in each band (or equivalent) when you start the course is essential.
English Language tuition, delivered by our British Council-accredited Centre for English Language Learning, is available both before and throughout the course if you need it.
UCAS tariff information
Students applying for courses starting in September will be made offers based on the latest UCAS Tariff.
Contextual offer
To make sure you get fair and equal access to higher education, when looking at your application, we consider more than just your grades. So if you are eligible, you may receive a contextual offer. Find our more about contextual offers.
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 large group sessions, tutorials, online resources and self-directed study. Students are given feedback throughout the course to develop and improve their economic and business strategy skills. Through the use of assessments emphasis is placed on research and analytical skills. Assessment may include, but is not limited to, portfolios of learning, essays, online tests, workbooks, case studies, or exams.
Teaching contact hours
This is a full-time course. Each module is worth 30 credits. It is expected that student will spend a total of 300 hours of study for each module. You should be prepared to devote approximately 10 contact hours a week to your studies and additional independent hours of study in order to succeed. Teaching is through a mix of lectures, tutorials and seminars.
Other: In addition, each module provides a two-hour surgery 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
Professional body accreditation and confirmation of exemptions is required for all programmes, when newly designed and on a regular basis thereafter. This process is underway to seek such approval from the various professional accountancy bodies to ensure that our students can benefit from the maximum exemptions available to them from their professional exams. Our programme has been designed to reflect the professional body requirements where possible.
Leicester Castle Business School is accredited by the professional accountancy bodies Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
This Joint Honours option allows graduates to gain certain exemptions from professional accounting body exams (ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW/CIPFA). However, if you wish to maximize your entitlement to professional body exemptions, you should consider studying our Accounting and Finance BA (Hons) course.
The number of exemptions awarded will be dependent on the programme and modules selected and is subject to approval from the professional bodies.
Career Opportunities
Placements
During this course you will have the option to complete a paid placement year, an invaluable opportunity to put the skills developed during your degree into practice. This insight into the professional world will build on your knowledge in a real-world setting, preparing you to progress onto your chosen career.
Previous students have taken up placements in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, including some international posts, with leading companies such as Deloitte, Xerox, TNT, the NHS and Walt Disney.
Our award-winning Careers Team can help to hone your professional skills with mock interviews and practice aptitude tests, and an assigned personal tutor will support you throughout your placement.
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.
Through DMU Global, Accounting and Business Management students explored and exchanged knowledge with institutions, organisations and individuals in Berlin who are working together to support refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
Graduate careers
A degree in Accounting with Business Management opens a wide range of career opportunities as you develop a broad base of skills that are in great demand with employers.
You may choose to specialise in a discipline that you enjoyed studying on the programme such as management, business or accounting.
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