This is a practical programme based around the key requirements of international accounting and finance bodies, aiming to provide a fast-track route for becoming a professional accountant. You will learn the latest techniques in risk management and will focus on business analytics, ensuring you build expertise in dealing with large amounts of data. You will be trained to work to the most professional, ethical and exacting of legal standards. You will learn to apply inventive, intellectual rigour to a wide variety of situations, whether ensuring the quality of an entity’s work or collecting and analysing complex data in order to make the right decision. The programme includes an optional year of work placement or a study period abroad, where you will learn accounting standards and practice of a specific country.

Analytical, critical and interpersonal skills Critically evaluate and apply theories and empirical evidence concerning accounting and finance Record and summarise transactions, financial statements, analyses and projections Introduce, argue and convey financial management decisions and recommendations Understand accounting and economic models and their implications for the financial management of an organisation Locate, extract and analyse data from multiple sources Provide a synthesis of an organisation's financial position