Our courses
BSc Accounting & Finance
Year 1 Term 1: You will study four core modules (including a CORE Spine module) introducing you to the fundamentals of accounting, finance and statistics. Term 2: You will study three core modules and choose between two electives. Some exams are taken in January before Term 2 classes begin.
Exemptions If you study specific accounting or finance modules as part of your degree you may be eligible for exemptions from a number of professional accountancy exams. How will I be assessed? Throughout the course you will be assessed by a range of different methods including examinations, class tests, essays, reports, presentations and group work.
Placement Year
Term 2: Jan–Mar
Term 1: Oct–Dec
Term 2: Jan–Mar
Term 1: Oct–Dec
Term 2: Jan–Mar
Term 1: Oct–Dec
Term 3: Apr–Jun revision and exams.
Economics for Business
CORE Spine module: Global Business Strategy and Sustainability
Accounting or Finance Elective
Finance 2: Corporate Finance
CORE Spine module: Foundations, Skills and Debates
If you choose to study BSc Accounting & Finance with Placement Year you will complete your work or study placement in your third year and will return to WBS in your fourth year to complete your final year modules. Your placement
CORE Spine module: Critical Issues in Management
Year 2 Throughout the year you will study five core modules (including a CORE Spine module) and two electives to focus on either accounting or finance. Your eighth module can either be another accounting or finance module, a module from a different topic within WBS, or something from another department. Final Year Terms 1 and 2: You will study one CORE Spine module and then you will choose four accounting or finance elective modules, allowing you to continue to focus your studies around accounting or finance or a mixture of both. A further three modules can be taken from a wider range of subject areas such as marketing, strategy, law, organisational behaviour or entrepreneurship.
Management Accounting for Decision Making and Control Choose TWO of the following electives: Financial Reporting 2, Business Law 2, Financial Econometrics, or ONE non-AF Elective
Financial Reporting 1
Foundations of Management Accounting
Accounting or Finance Elective
Financial Management
Accounting or Finance Elective
We constantly improve our BSc Accounting & Finance course curriculum to respond to the changing needs of the industry and wider society. Our course equips our students with a solid background in accounting and finance, and offers the option of specialising in either field. Upon graduation, our students join the network of a wide community of responsible future leaders in the business world.” Arie Gozluklu Associate Professor Course Director (Finance)
year will be assessed by WBS during your year away.
Finance 1: Financial Markets
Introduction to Financial Accounting
Business Law 1
Accounting or Finance Elective
Elective
Business Analytics or Management, Organisations and Society
Elective
Choose from: Accounting in Context, Economics of Strategy, or ONE non-AF Elective
Introduction to Statistics
Elective
Term 3: Apr–Jun revision and exams.
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Undergraduate Programme
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