BA Accounting and Finance

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De Montfort University

Comments about BA Accounting and Finance - At the institution - Leicester - Leicestershire

• Objectives
  * Leicester Business School is an Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Premier Status centre and a Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Quality Partner. Students gain exemptions from the maximum ACCA and CIMA professional examinations * The Department of Accounting and Finance was awarded the best possible result from the government’s QAA review for excellent teaching and student support * DMU was the only university in England listed as ‘excellent’ for Accounting and Finance in the Sunday Times University Guide 2004 * An optional paid placement year offers professional experience with major employers such as IBM, Intel, Audi, Volkswagen, HSBC, the Audit Commission, Marks and Spencer and Siemens.
• Entry requirements
  Entry requirements Normally 280 UCAS Tariff points including at least two subjects at Advanced Level (or equivalent).
• Academic title
  BA Accounting and Finance
• Course description
  BA Accounting and Finance
  
  Programme
  
  This programme is for students who are committed to a career in accounting. First year modules include Accounting 1, Business Environment, Business Communications for Accountants, Introduction to Business Computing, Law for Accountants and Quantatative Methods
  
  Second year core modules are Accounting 2 and Regulatory Framework of Accounting and options include Research Skills for Accounting and Finance, Introduction to Financial Management, Environmental Management and Auditing, Management Strategy, Managing the Development of Business Information Systems, Company Law for Accountants, Business Decision Techniques and Financial Management.
  
  Final year students cover further subjects such as Taxation, Auditing, Business Finance, Management and Organisational Development, Forensic Accounting, International Accounting and Public Sector Accounting.
  
  Accounting can also be studied as a Joint Honours Degree and combined with Business, Computing or Law. Finance can also be studied as a Joint Honours Degree with Business.

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