Lancaster University Management School

Course Details

Accounting and Management Studies BSc Hons

Course Description

This degree scheme offers a wider choice of management subjects than our single honours Accounting and Finance degree. You’ll study the fundamental concepts of the accounting discipline, whilst at the same time developing your knowledge of Management and related subjects such as organisational behaviour, organisational strategy and marketing. In your first year you’ll follow the Introduction to Accounting and Finance module as well as Economics and a third subject. Your second year courses include Accounting Information Systems and Auditing; Management Accounting for Business Decisions; and Statistical Methods for Business. In your final year, you’ll move on to subjects such as Taxation; Issues in Auditing; Financial Statement Analysis and Business Valuation.

Course Duration

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3year

Career outcomes

All our Accounting and Finance degrees prepare you for a wide variety of careers in business, with many of our graduates working with professional firms and financial institutions, as well as large commercial and local government organisations. Roles include trainee accountants, finance managers and banking advisors. Your degree will also equip you with highly desirable transferable skills which have helped recent graduates find work in the fields of financial customer service, IT support and marketing and communications. Several graduates have also continued their academic studies and embarked on Masters degrees. Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, you also graduate with the relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability awareness, career development, campus community and social development. Visit our Employability section for full details. Lancaster Management School has an award winning careers team to provide a dedicated careers and placement service offering a range of innovative services for management school students. Our high reputation means we attract a wide range of leading global employers to campus offering you the opportunity to interact with graduate recruiters from day 1 of your degree.




Accounting and Management Studies BSc Hons Lancaster University Management School