Napier University

Course Details

Accounting With Corporate Finance BA (Hons)

Course Description

In this course you'll develop the skills, creative thinking and strategic planning that you'll need to successfully chart a business' course through financial waters. Most importantly, this course is accredited by the major UK accounting institutes, including the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS). Useful for rapid progression into the industry, these accreditations indicate the strength and industry-relevance of this course. The Accounting and Finance group has also received the highest possible recognition from the UK's Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) for the quality of its teaching. Through this course, you'll learn and develop a combination of accounting, finance and other business skills. These include specific accounting techniques and policies relating to corporate finance, tax, auditing, corporate governance and statistics. You'll learn to use relevant IT systems, and acquire relevant knowledge of law, economics and the business environment. In addition, transferable skills of time management, project management, communication, collection and management of data, and IT will all serve you well whatever your eventual field of work.

Course Duration

NumberDuration
3year

Career outcomes

We offer industry informed courses which combine the optimum balance of theory and practice to equip graduates for success. 92.3% of our undergraduates are in work or further study within six months of leaving (HESA, 2012). We also offer a unique personal development programme called Stand Out. Like many of our graduates, you may become a student member of one of the country's six main accounting institutes, particularly the ICAS, CIMA and ACCA. A degree in Accounting with Corporate Finance can open the door to a wide range of careers, including: trainee accounting roles leading to professional qualification. These can be pursued within an accounting firm, a commercial organisation or a public sector body general management opportunities assistant accountant in a range of companies taxation work and further training further study e.g. ICAS, CIMA, ACCA or CIPFA programmes.




Accounting With Corporate Finance BA (Hons) Napier University