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University of the West of Scotland

UCAS Code: N400 | Bachelor of Accountancy (with Honours) - BAcc (Hon)

Entry requirements

A level

A,A,A

Year 2 entry with A Level grades of AAA, including Accounting or relevant subject experience

International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme

32

32 points for Year 2 Entry, including relevant subject experience

Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)

DDD

For Year 2 entry, DDD in Accounting or relevant subject

Scottish Advanced Higher

B,B,B

For Year 2 entry, including Accounting or relevant subject experience

Scottish HNC

Pass

HNC in Accounting with A in the Graded Unit for Year 2 entry. NextGen HNC with final grade of Merit

Scottish HND

Pass

Year 2 entry: HND in Financial Services. Year 3 entry: HND in Accounting with AB in the Graded Unit. NextGen HND with final grade of Merit

T Level

D

For year 2 entry, in relevant subject

UCAS Tariff

144

We've calculated how many Ucas points you'll need for this course.

About this course

Course option

4years

Full-time | 2025

Subject

Accounting

Businesses rely on accountants to help them make informed financial decisions that contribute to their success. Studying this programme will equip you with the know-how to play a part in this.

The Bachelor of Accountancy (BAcc) programme will equip you with the skills needed for a successful career in accountancy. Covering a full range of accountancy subjects and with an emphasis on the practical aspects of accounting, you’ll gain the knowledge and experience needed to help everything add up in the workplace.

Programme Highlights

You’ll learn the practical skills required for working in accountancy – meaning you can hit the ground running when entering the workplace.

Teaching is delivered by highly qualified accounting and finance professionals.

Regular guest lectures from industry experts provide valuable insight into a career in accountancy.

We work with a small number of companies who offer an opportunity to take part in a one-year industry placement to improve your skillset. This is a highly competitive process but successful applicants will benefit from this experience.

Programme Details

Through a mixture of lectures, small group tutorials and workshops, the BAcc Accounting programme will help you develop the specialist accountancy expertise and transferable skills needed to make a positive impact in the workplace.

With programme content designed by experienced academics and industry professionals at the forefront of their industry, the BAcc Accountancy programme will deepen your understanding of:

Accountancy best practice

Contemporary issues in finance

How to establish your career in accountancy

The importance of continuous professional development

Careers

Graduates from the BAcc Accountancy programme have gone on to work as financial analysts, graduate accountants, credit operations advisers and tax specialists for well-known companies, including:

• Chivas Brothers

• RBS

• Shell

• NHS

• CBRE

• Sainsbury’s

Modules

This year develops your financial and management accounting experience and introduces specialised areas of accounting such as personal tax. Modules include:

Year 1:

Accountancy Today

Financial Accounting 1

Business Economics

Accountant in Business

Management Accounting 1

Data Analysis

Year 2:

Intro to Business Ethics

Financial Accounting 2

Management Accounting 2

Financial Management

Business Law

Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Year 3:

Auditing

Management Accounting 3

Personal Tax

Advanced Financial Management

Business Taxation

Financial Accounting 3

Year 4:

Honours Dissertation (part 1)

Enterprise Risk Management

Finance in a Digital World

Honours Dissertation (part 2)

Term 2 Options:

Contemporary Accounting Issues

Personal Finance

Financial Modelling & Change Management

Assessment methods

Our accounting degree is mainly assessed using variety of assessment methods including.

Unseen class test

Unseen written examination

Coursework, report, essay,

Presentation (individual or group)

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

Channel Islands
£9,250
per year
England
£9,250
per year
EU
£15,500
per year
International
£15,500
per year
Northern Ireland
£9,250
per year
Republic of Ireland
£9,250
per year
Scotland
£1,820
per year
Wales
£9,250
per year

The Uni

Course locations:

Lanarkshire Campus

Paisley Campus

Department:

Business and Creative Industries

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What students say

We've crunched the numbers to see if overall student satisfaction here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

86%
Accounting

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Accounting

Teaching and learning

81%
Staff make the subject interesting
89%
Staff are good at explaining things
79%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
67%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

75%
Library resources
74%
IT resources
80%
Course specific equipment and facilities
77%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

99%
UK students
1%
International students
40%
Male students
60%
Female students
62%
2:1 or above
36%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

D
D
D

After graduation

The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Accounting

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£18,500
low
Average annual salary
94%
med
Employed or in further education
66%
low
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

33%
Business, finance and related associate professionals
27%
Business, research and administrative professionals
17%
Administrative occupations: finance

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.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Accounting

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£19k

£19k

£21k

£21k

£23k

£23k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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It offers a snapshot of what grads went on to do six months later, what they were earning on average, and whether they felt their degree helped them obtain a 'graduate role'. We calculate a mean rating to indicate if this is high, medium or low compared to other universities.

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