Accounting and Finance Management

Accounting and finance management combines the technical disciplines of financial accounting and management accounting with the broader organisational and strategic context in which financial decisions are made. Accounting provides the systematic framework for recording, reporting, and auditing financial activity, ensuring that organisations are transparent and accountable to their stakeholders. Finance addresses the questions of how resources are allocated, how investments are evaluated, and how risk is managed over time.

Finance management brings these together with an emphasis on the practical decision-making skills that finance professionals need in real organisations.

At Wrexham University, this three-year full-time programme includes a foundation year and a sandwich year with work placement opportunities. The foundation year provides the academic grounding you need before entering the main degree, developing your mathematical and analytical skills alongside the business literacy that the discipline requires. The sandwich year allows you to gain extended professional experience in an accounting, finance, or business role before completing your final year, which is consistently valued by employers and significantly strengthens the graduate employment profile.

You will study financial accounting, management accounting, corporate finance, taxation, auditing, and business management, developing both technical competence and the commercial judgement that professional practice requires. A typical entry tariff of 136 points reflects the programme's rigour.

Graduates of accounting and finance management programmes enter roles across audit, tax, corporate finance, management accounting, financial analysis, and general management. Many pursue professional qualifications through ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA, or other recognised bodies, and the sandwich year experience typically provides exemptions from parts of those qualifications. The foundation year makes the programme accessible to students who need additional preparation, and Wrexham's connections to the north Wales and northwest England business community provide good local employment opportunities for graduates.