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ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND LAW
Accounting and Finance
Gain exemptions from professional accounting exams on our accredited courses and benefit from our links with major employers in Bristol’s thriving financial services industry.
Why study Accounting and Finance at Bristol?
As one of the UK’s leading departments for research in accounting and finance and management*, we produce high-quality graduates with strong quantitative skills and a global outlook.
Our professionally accredited degrees are informed by both research and professional practice combining theoretical education with an understanding of how to tackle the many challenges faced by the finance sector today.
We provide a rigorous training in accounting and finance but we also offer a wide range of optional units across finance, accounting, economics and management enabling you to tailor your degree to reflect your career ambitions. Alternatively, we offer fully integrated degrees in accounting and finance or management.
The department is small and supportive yet large enough to provide an international experience. As one of the UK’s major centres for financial services, Bristol offers plenty of opportunities for those wanting to work in the sector. We have strong links with accounting and consultancy firms who support our students with careers guidance and professional skills development. Our graduates have strong employment prospects, with a significant proportion entering graduate careers in the finance and consulting industries within six months of graduation.
Accreditation
For more information about our courses visit
bristol.ac.uk/ug19-accounting.
*The Department of Management and Department of Accounting and Finance were together ranked sixth in the UK for research impact in analysis of REF 2014 by the Times Higher Education.
BSc Accounting and Finance A-levels AAA or A*AB (ABB†
) IB 36 (32† )
You will study topics such as asset pricing, corporate finance, financial reporting, auditing, international finance, management accounting and taxation. In the first year you will gain skills across the core disciplines of accounting, economics, finance and mathematics. In the second year you will learn more advanced theory and techniques in accounting and finance with the opportunity to choose some optional units. In your final year you will study financial markets and advanced corporate finance plus units from a wide selection across the School of Economics, Finance and Management.
BSc Accounting and Finance with Professional Placement A-levels AAA or A*AB (ABB†
) IB 36 (32† )
This four-year course includes a professional placement in year three. Your placement will be in a financial environment, for example in an accounting firm or in the finance team of an organisation in another industry. This placement year will enhance your understanding of your academic studies, provide insight into how an organisation operates and help you learn how to take responsibility within a team. You will have the opportunity to complete the first stage of the ICAEW professional accounting examinations during your placement.
Entry to the course is by transfer after year one. You should apply initially to one of our other accounting degrees and then, once you have joined us, register your interest to add a professional placement.
BSc Accounting and Finance with Study Abroad A-levels AAA or A*AB (ABB†
) IB 36 (32† )
This course extends our three-year BSc course to four years, with your third year spent studying accounting in English at one of our partner universities overseas. You will apply to BSc Accounting and Finance initially and transfer. Places are allocated depending on first-year examination results.
BSc Accounting and Finance with Study in Continental Europe A-levels AAA or A*AB (ABB†
) IB 36 (32† )
On this four-year course you will spend your third year abroad at one of our partner universities. You will study the relevant language during years one and two before spending your third year studying accounting and finance in the host language of a partner university in France, Germany, Italy or Spain.
The course combines the challenging, broad academic content of all our accounting and finance degrees with an overseas dimension that reflects the international nature of modern business.
bristol.ac.uk/accounting
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