BSc (Hons)Accountancy and Finance

Core modules

Positive Psychology for Success

Lay strong foundations for study and employment success. Build your academic, employability and independent learning skills, and put together a personal professional development (PPD) plan to stay agile, adaptable and future ready.

Data Analysis, Tools and Application

Explore how digital technology has fundamentally reshaped traditional business, and how businesses try to keep up. Learn to collect, analyse, and interpret data, and to present your findings effectively.

Marketing, Sales and Negotiation Skills

Discover the critical role of marketing in business, from understanding customers’ motivations to engagement to measuring effectiveness. Learn key marketing concepts and terminology, explore digital and content marketing, and more.

Accounting Skills

A fundamental understanding of how systems and processes operate is essential for the accountant. This module teaches the basics of manual and computerised accounting, from double entry book-keeping to various accounting packages, accounting controls, suspense accounts, payroll, and more.

Introduction to Financial Reporting

This module builds on the techniques developed in Accounting Skills, exploring accounting regulation and teaching you how to prepare key financial statements – income, financial position and cashflow statements – for organisations large and small.

Introduction to Management Accounting

Management accounting provides financial and non-financial information that will help managers make good decisions. This module covers introductory aspects of accounting related to control and decision-making within business organisations, focusing on using relevant techniques to address various business management problems.

Core modules

Financial Reporting

Through this module you will learn the need for regulation over the quality of financial reporting and the regulatory framework within which financial statements are prepared.

Financial Management

This module will introduce you to the function, principles, and techniques of financial management. In particular, it will focus on the relationship between companies seeking to raise finance, and the investors who provide that finance.

Taxation Principles

You will develop a curiosity to understand and critique the impact of this evolving taxation environment. The knowledge gained can be used for a career in practice, industry or for your own personal tax affairs.

Management Accounting

This module will focus on the accounting concepts and techniques relevant to the provision of management information for planning, control and performance evaluation purposes.

The UK Financial System

This module is concerned with the analysis of financial institutions and markets in the UK, which are crucially important for the operation of a successful modern economy.

Optional modules

Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

Audit Principles

Through this module you will become familiar with the methodologies required through the audit process and learn how to draft an audit report.

Capital Market Trading

Understand money and the markets in our globalised economy. Explore the language of finance; test and observe diverse investment strategies; and learn how key information can dramatically affect share prices.

Placement year

The course has an optional placement year (46 weeks, full time) between years two and three of the programme. With support and guidance from the course team and Solent Futures, our careers service, you will arrange your own work placement and submit a learning contract, as well as developing a reflective portfolio during your placement which critically appraises your role and performance. Recent placements have included Boeing, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and private accounting practices.

Core modules

The International Financial System

This module investigates the international financial system. Including; how banks really work, how to manage the economy, how countries should relate to each other and how developing countries can successfully develop.

Advanced Management Accounting

This module will provide you with a wide range of techniques to enable you as a future manager to make quality decisions.

Corporate Financial Management

This module focuses on a stock exchange quoted company and how corporate finance theories and practices can enhance performance. It takes an integrated view of how financing and investment decisions contribute to shareholders’ wealth creation.

Advanced Financial Reporting

Through this module you will evaluate current financial reporting practices and information produced by listed companies, including groups.

Optional modules

Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

International Financial Reporting and Analysis

Keep up to date with financial reporting practices in an ever-changing global environment. Explore contrasts between regional accounting styles, and investigate challenges in business performance analysis across national boundaries.

Current Audit Issues

This module will explore the expectations placed on the auditor and consider whether they have ‘failed’ in some cases.

Taxation Practice

Through this module you will develop advanced practical tax planning skills. Focus will be on the interaction of the various taxes to provide tax planning solutions.

Ecological Economics

Business needs to change – fast. As a future manager and leader, you will consider climate change and the underlying economics, critically evaluating proposed solutions and their ecological and economic impacts.