Accounting and Finance (W18)

This specialist diploma is designed to provide you with an understanding of the role of accounting and financial management within business and today’s society to an intermediate level. You’ll become equipped with the technical skills to practice accountancy along with a broader academic knowledge and cover topics that will instil creative and critical thinking, reasoning, and research skills. These skills and the knowledge you’ll gain from studying this diploma can be applied to a wide range of business activities and prepare you for a variety of exciting careers in accounting, finance or more broadly within business.

Key features of the course

• Covers the theoretical and practical aspects of financial accounting, management accounting and financial management to an intermediate level

• Develops your ability to evaluate accounting and financial information

• Develops academic skills such as critical thinking and assessing arguments

Course Modules

This accounting and finance diploma has two stages, each comprising 120 credits.

In Stage 1, you’ll learn essential and fundamental knowledge relating to understanding accounting, business management, and data analytics and decision making. These modules will lay the foundations of your studies and will prepare you for Stage 2.

Stage 2 develops the knowledge and skills you gained at Stage 1 and delves deeper into the theoretical and practical elements of financial and management accounting and finance/financial management. You’ll also be introduced to the main legal principles within the context of accounting and finance.