BSc (Hons) Accounting, Finance & Business Management

Our teaching team will share with you their expert knowledge, experience, and research insights during stimulating lectures, seminars, and practical workshops. Teaching is structured to allow for flexibility, and blended learning is widely used to support teaching, learning, and student university experience. 

You will be taught over two semesters each year, taking three modules per semester. Your actual contact hours will depend on the core and optional modules you select. However, typically you will have around 12 hours of structured contact time per week. This may be in lectures, where the module leader delivers key material to you in a large group or seminars where you'll discuss and develop, in smaller groups, your understanding of topics covered in lectures.

You may also experience workshops, which combine lectures and seminars when the class size is smaller. You will also be supported by your personal academic tutor.

Between years 2 and 3 you will have the opportunity to gain work experience on a year-long placement with an external organisation or apply to study for a year in one of our partner institutions in North America as part of your degree if you meet the criteria.

You can opt to undertake a final year project that will be based on a live brief from a relevant industry. All courses are informed by the University’s Learning and Teaching Strategy.

When not attending lectures, seminars, workshops, or other timetabled sessions, you'll continue learning through self-study. Typically, this involves reading journal articles and books, undertaking research in the library, working on projects, and preparing for coursework assignments/examinations, workshops, and seminars.

Your lecturers will indicate specific readings and/or activities to complete before class. We will also provide reading lists for further study. Seminars are enriched when students have completed their independent reading, allowing everyone to interact with this learning and benefiting the whole group.

The Individual Study or Dissertation in your final year is a significant piece of independent research, where you may select a topic of special interest. You will be guided by a supervisor, but the main direction of the work will be decided by you.

Teaching is structured to allow for flexibility. Your contact hours will depend on the core and optional modules you select. However, typically you will have about 12 hours of structured contact time per week. For every hour of contact, you'll be expected to complete three hours of independent study.

Academics will teach you at all stages of their careers, from postdoctoral researchers to professors, including others with extensive industry experience.

Every member of our teaching team is committed to innovative and engaging approaches to teaching, and members hold excellent teaching qualifications (Higher Education Academy accredited) and academic qualifications (PhDs in Accounting, Finance, Business Management, or other related disciplines).

We are also research active, publishing our research in academic journals, books, and engaging in work with academic and professional bodies.