Accounting and Financial Management and Economics

Accounting, financial management and economics is a combination designed to develop expertise across three disciplines that are deeply interconnected in practice. Accounting provides the skills to record, analyse and communicate financial information within the regulatory and governance frameworks that organisations must navigate. Financial management examines how organisations raise capital, manage risk, value assets and make investment decisions.

Economics provides the theoretical and quantitative tools to analyse how markets work, how firms and households behave, and how macroeconomic forces shape the environment within which business decisions are made. Together they give you a distinctive analytical toolkit with clear professional relevance.

At the University of Sheffield you will study this combination over three years of full-time study, building understanding of accounting and financial management within organisational contexts alongside a solid grounding in modern economic theory and applied economic analysis. A sandwich year provides substantial professional experience, and a year abroad broadens your perspective on how financial systems and economic institutions operate across different national contexts. Work placement is integrated into the programme, connecting academic learning to the realities of financial and business practice.

The typical tariff of 152 reflects the analytical demands of a programme that requires strong quantitative skills from the outset, and Sheffield's business school provides a research-active environment that informs the curriculum.

Graduates pursue careers in accounting and auditing, financial analysis, corporate finance, management consulting, banking, economic research, the civil service and the public sector. Many go on to professional qualifications including chartered accountancy through the ICAEW, ACCA or CIMA, using exemptions earned through the degree to reduce their qualification journey. Others pursue postgraduate study in finance, economics or management.

The combination of accounting, financial management and economics is particularly well suited to careers in organisations where financial rigour and economic understanding need to work in tandem.