Accounting (including Year Abroad)

Description

Our BSc Accounting (including Year Abroad) provides a firm grounding in all aspects of accounting and gives you an opportunity to spend your third year abroad. During your second and fourth years, your study of accounting will be composed of two main strands: financial accounting and management accounting.
Financial accounting is concerned with the preparation of financial statements which will be used by external parties. Management accounting is concerned with providing information to assist managers in their decision-making. As the study of finance is essential to our accounting students, your second year includes finance modules to give you an understanding of how financial theory can aid decision-making in organisations.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)

• English

Course Content

The special characteristics of our courses are flexibility and choice. In your first year, you usually take four or five modules that include pre-requisite(s) for your course but, in many cases, mean you can try subjects you have not come across before. If you are taking a humanities or social science, then you have the greatest choice, as most of our first-year modules do not assume any specialist knowledge.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available. We offer a range of optional modules in your second- and final-years and most courses allow you to undertake a final-year project, an individual piece of research on a topic that interests you.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

Compulsory
Introduction to Accounting; Quantitive Methods and Finance; Introduction to Management; Economics for Business;

Year 2

Compulsory
Financial Reporting and Analysis; Management Accounting I; Corporate Finance; Business Law I; Management Accounting II; Portfolio Analysis;
And one other Essex Business School (Colchester Campus) option.

Year 3

Year Abroad

Year 4

Compulsory
Current Issues in Financial Reporting; Advanced Management Accounting; Issues in Management Accounting;
Optional
Final Year Accounting Option;
Essex Business School (Colchester Campus) option.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

• A-levels: AAB - ABB
• GCSE Mathematics: C
• GCSE English: C
• IB: 33 - 32 points, including Standard Mathematics grade 4 (we consider IB certificates at the Higher level on a case-by-case basis)
• BTEC qualifications, in relevant disciplines, will be considered on an individual basis, depending on the units studied. The standard required is generally at Distinction level.
• Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above).

English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at Essex, please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance.