University of East Anglia

BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance with a Year Abroad

University of East AngliaNorwich Research Park, Norwich

Course overview

Understanding accounting and finance is vital to speaking the language of business. UEA’s BSc Accounting and Finance with a Year Abroad 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 Year Abroad 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. With this course option, you’ll also have the exciting opportunity to develop industry-specific skills overseas in a year abroad. 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 judgment 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

Key highlights

  • Year abroad developing industry-specific skills overseas
  • Covers financial accounting, reporting and management accounting alongside core business disciplines
  • Teaching informed by current business and accounting research
  • Learn to interpret and act on accounts of varied business structures
  • Develop persuasive communication for key business decision makers
  • Explore accounting's role in sustainable decision-making and wealth distribution

Entry requirements

  • International Baccalaureate: 32 — Further Examples of Typical Entry Requirements: International Baccalaureate 32 points overall Irish Leaving Certificate 3 subjects at H2, 3 subjects at H3 Scottish Highers AAABB Scottish Advanced Highers BCC A combination of Advanced Highers and Highers may be acceptable
  • Scottish Advanced Highers: BCC — A combination
  • Scottish Highers: AAABB — Further Examples of Typical Entry Requirements: International Baccalaureate 32 points overall Irish Leaving Certificate 3 subjects at H2, 3 subjects at H3 Scottish Highers AAABB Scottish Advanced Highers BCC A combination of Advanced Highers and Highers may be acceptable
  • Irish Leaving Certificate — 3 subjects at H2, 3 subjects at H3

Careers this course leads to

  • Trainee chartered accountant
  • Management accountant
  • Financial analyst
  • Auditor
  • Tax adviser
  • Corporate finance analyst

Cost of study

UK/Home: £9,790 per year

Admission

Applications are made through AHZ at no cost. Share your transcripts, English test scores and personal statement, and your AHZ Counsellor will review your profile, submit your application to University of East Anglia, and guide you through interview, offer, CAS and visa — right up to enrolment.

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