Accounting and Finance with a Year in Industry

Overview

Understanding accounting and finance is vital to speaking the language of business. UEA’s BSc Accounting and Finance with a Year in Industry degree will help you master this language, giving you a huge competitive advantage in the business world. People who are highly literate in accounting and finance often rise to the top of businesses.

In UEA’s Accounting and Finance with a Placement Year BSc, you’ll learn financial accounting and reporting, and management accounting, alongside core business disciplines. This pairing will give you a broad foundation from which to enter a variety of career paths. Our teaching is constantly changing, informed by the fast-developing world of business and accounting research. At UEA, you’ll be at the cutting edge of the accounting and finance world.

Throughout the course, you’ll develop your understanding of business finance and accounting as you learn how to understand, interpret and act on the financial accounts of a variety of business structures. You’ll learn how to communicate an argument in a way that’s meaningful and persuasive to the key decision makers in that business. You’ll also learn how to use your professional judgement to understand and influence business decisions. You’ll even have the chance to explore how accounting influences sustainable decision-making and wealth distribution in society, and how politics can influence accounting. With this course option, you can also gain valuable industry experience and develop your skills with a year in industry placement.

Our Norwich Business School is in a region that’s varied and welcoming, with a thriving business innovation and enterprise community. All our teaching is informed by both our world-leading research and our real-world business experience. That means you’ll gain knowledge of the key current issues for industry and employers.

After your degree, you’ll be well placed to enter careers such as financial accountancy, management accountancy, auditing or tax planning. The expertise this degree gives you is also a great way into the financial services sector, opening up careers in investment banking, retail banking, fund management or insurance. If you’re interested in starting a business of your own, there’s also no better foundation for individual entrepreneurship.

Disclaimer

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