Accounting and Finance
UCAS Code: NN43
Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Entry requirements
GCSE Maths Grade 4 still needed.
GCSE/National 4/National 5
GCSE Mathematics - Grade 4
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About this course
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Our Accounting and Finance degree will help you to develop an international perspective and excellent skills in:
- team work
- problem solving
- communication.
Most of our teaching staff are qualified accountants. Their professional experience will enrich your classroom experience and curriculum. You will benefit from our close links with leading practitioners and employers. This also ensures that your learning experience is practical, relevant and up to date.
You can be part of our Accounting for Community: Engaging Students (ACES) project in your second or final year. This gives you experience in working for a local charity to assist with their accounting.
We have an established relationship with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the global body for professional accountants. We also have Partner in Learning status with the institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
You may also be interested in our Accounting and Economics course, which shares modules with Accounting and Finance.
Modules
On this course you will be taught about international standards, practices of accounting, thinking globally and working across cultures. Included in the first year modules are sessions which will equip you with key skills, including academic writing and reading in English, primary research, sourcing and evaluating secondary data, academic referencing with emphasis on avoiding plagiarism, and manipulation and critical evaluation of numerical data. In Year 2 there are sessions providing help and guidance in sourcing and applying for the most suitable work placement positions for you. In Year 3 there is the option of a work placement which will enable you to graduate with highly valued graduate-level work experience alongside the academic knowledge and transferable skills gained throughout the course.
Tuition fees
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Extra funding
At Oxford Brookes, we have always warmly welcomed students from the EU. We deeply value the enormous contributions they make, and we will continue to do all we can to welcome EU students long into the future.
We are therefore delighted to announce that we will be offering scholarships of £4,000 to all EU students who wish to join our degree programmes in the academic year 2021/22. If you meet the criteria, this scholarship will be applied automatically as a discount to your tuition fees across all years of study.
For full details including eligibility criteria, please see our website at https://www.brookes.ac.uk/studying-at-brookes/finance/undergraduate-finance---eu-students/2021-22/financial-help-for-undergraduate-eu-students/
The Uni
Oxford Brookes University
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Top job areas of graduates
You don't have to be an accountant if you take this degree, but over half of graduates take a look at the rewards on offer for accountancy trainees and go into the job. Many others go into other parts of the finance industry as advisors or book-keepers, and some go into management or marketing. London is very popular for accountancy graduates going into their first job, but it's also quite common to work in Scotland, with Glasgow a perennial hotbed of Scottish accountancy recruitment. If you want to find a job in finance as an accountancy graduates, recruitment agencies were particularly important last year, so try to get in touch with one as soon as you can to improve your chances.
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