Accounting and Finance
Accounting and finance together provide the analytical and technical foundation for understanding how organisations manage money and how financial markets operate. Accounting is concerned with measuring and reporting financial performance, managing costs and ensuring that the financial information on which decisions are based is accurate and reliable. Finance examines how capital is raised and deployed, how risk is managed and how the pricing of assets and the structure of financial markets can be understood.
Studied together at Aberystwyth University, they give you a thorough and well-rounded education in the financial dimensions of economic life.
This three-year full-time programme covers financial and management accounting, auditing, corporate finance, investment analysis, financial markets, taxation and business law, alongside the quantitative and analytical methods that both disciplines require. You will develop technical competence in the preparation and interpretation of financial statements alongside the broader conceptual understanding of how financial systems and markets work. The programme equips you for both professional qualification and for the wide range of careers that draw on accounting and financial expertise.
Graduates move into careers in public accounting, corporate finance, banking, investment management, financial consultancy, the public sector and a wide range of other organisations that need people who can handle financial complexity with accuracy and judgement. Many graduates proceed to professional qualifications with bodies such as the ICAEW, the ACCA or the CIMA, and the degree provides a strong academic foundation for those routes. The combination of accounting and finance expertise is particularly valued by employers who need graduates who understand both the technical recording of financial information and the broader financial strategy of an organisation.
Further study at postgraduate level in accounting, finance or related fields is also a common pathway.