Accounting with Finance with Placement Year

Accounting with Finance with Placement Year is a degree that combines technical training in the theory and practice of accounting with a broader understanding of financial markets, corporate finance and investment. The accounting dimension develops your ability to prepare and interpret financial statements, understand tax and audit requirements, and apply the frameworks of management accounting to business decision-making. The finance dimension extends your thinking into capital markets, risk, portfolio management and the economic forces that shape how organisations and economies raise and deploy capital.

Together, they equip you for the professional landscape of modern finance.

At the University of Law, this four-year full-time programme with a placement year develops your communication skills and your ability to engage with complex financial information in both formal and informal professional contexts. You will consider appropriate methods of communication across different audiences, develop your understanding of digital and social media in professional contexts, and build the reflective practice skills that allow you to learn from professional experience and continuously improve. The placement year gives you a sustained period of real professional experience that complements your academic studies and significantly enhances your readiness for employment on graduation.

Accounting with Finance graduates are well-placed for careers across financial services, professional accounting practice, corporate finance, investment management, insurance and the public sector. Many graduates pursue professional qualifications in accounting (such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or in related areas such as financial risk management or corporate treasury after graduation. The combination of accounting and finance knowledge is particularly valued in roles that require fluency across both the technical regulatory and the commercial dimensions of financial management.

Further study at masters level in accounting, finance or a related field is also a natural route for those who wish to develop specialist expertise.