Accounting and Finance

You'll study for your Accounting and Finance degree at our world-renowned Leeds University Business School. This is a leading and innovative course that delivers a strong accounting and finance knowledge base whilst helping you develop a wider skill set, in preparation for a career in accounting or finance, as well as a range of other sectors.

This Accounting and Finance degree offers you the opportunity to graduate with significant exemptions from the main accountancy professional bodies, giving you a head start in your career.

You'll develop a deep understanding of how financial information is used and managed within organisations, and how it is reported, both internally and externally. You'll learn about the modern economy, the nature of business, and the role that accountancy and finance can play within it.

This course will give you the practical knowledge and skills that top accounting and finance employers are looking for. You will develop your analytical, quantitative, research, and professional skills whilst gaining a thorough understanding of key topics in financial and management accounting, corporate finance, financial econometrics, and economics.

You'll also be able to tailor your studies with diverse and specialist modules, such as Python programming for finance, forensic accounting and finance, contemporary issues in accounting, behavioural finance, and advanced financial accounting.

Leeds is one of the largest city regions for financial and business services in the UK, which makes it an ideal place to study accounting and finance. You'll also have a range of opportunities to gain relevant work experience.

Shape your learning

This course allows you to tailor your studies to your specific interests and professional aspirations through pathways of modules in particular areas, which can be followed from year 2 through to your final year. This unique level of personalisation and self-direction offers you the flexibility to meet your career goals whilst helping you stand out from the crowd when you graduate.

The pathways available on this course are:

• Enterprise and Innovation

• Ethics and Sustainability

• Economics

• Business Management

Why study at Leeds

• Learn from highly qualified and experienced professional accountants and world-renowned academic researchers.

• Benefit from the support of your Academic Personal Tutor, who will work in partnership with you to maximise your personal and professional development.

• Graduate with the opportunity to receive significant exemptions from the main accountancy professional bodies, giving you a head start for a career as a Chartered Accountant.

• Access to our world-class facilities, including our state-of-the-art trading room, where you'll develop practical skills for your career. You'll have the chance to gain certification for taking part in Bloomberg Market Concepts training in your first year and to participate in a live trading simulation in your final year.

• Develop your experience and boost your career prospects with our industrial placement opportunities or study abroad programmes at one of our many partner universities across the world.

• Support from the Business School’s Employability and Opportunity team, who'll help you explore opportunities to develop your professional network and gain work experience.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Association of MBAs
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• AACSB International
• The Chartered Financial Analyst Institute
• European Quality Improvement System