Accounting and Business Management

Accounting and business management is a combination that develops two of the most practically important skill sets in professional life. Accounting provides the formal frameworks for recording, reporting, and analysing financial information, giving you the technical literacy needed to understand and communicate about the financial health of any organisation. Business management broadens that foundation, developing your understanding of strategy, marketing, operations, leadership, and the commercial context in which financial decisions are made.

Together they produce graduates who can think analytically about financial information and also understand the organisational dynamics that produce it.

At the University of Gloucestershire, this three-year full-time programme combines rigorous accounting study with a broad business management education in an institution that takes professional relevance seriously. Gloucestershire's connections with businesses in the South West region, and the university's applied approach to teaching, mean the programme is grounded in the realities of professional life. You will study financial and management accounting, auditing, taxation, corporate governance, and financial reporting alongside strategic management, marketing, organisational behaviour, and business operations, developing a rounded professional education.

The typical entry tariff of 104 points reflects the programme's inclusive and applied orientation, welcoming students with a range of academic backgrounds.

Graduates are well placed for careers in accounting, financial management, business analysis, and general commercial roles across a wide range of sectors. Many go on to pursue professional qualifications with bodies such as the ICAEW, ACCA, or CIMA, for which an accounting degree provides excellent preparation. The management dimension of this programme broadens graduates' employability beyond accounting into roles in commercial management, operations, and strategy.

Postgraduate study in accounting, finance, or business is available for those who want to develop specialist expertise or progress into more senior roles.