Accounting with Placement

Accounting is the discipline that provides the informational backbone of every organisation that handles money, from the smallest business to the largest multinational corporation. It encompasses financial reporting, management accounting, auditing, taxation and the governance frameworks through which organisations are held accountable for their financial decisions. For students who want a career in this essential and highly employable profession, an accounting degree provides both the technical knowledge and the professional formation to begin that journey.

At Birkbeck College, this four-year programme is available through evening study, making it genuinely accessible to students who need to balance degree study with working or other commitments. The programme includes a placement, giving you direct professional experience in an accounting or finance context that complements and enriches your academic learning. You will master the essential subject knowledge of financial and management accounting, auditing and taxation alongside the professional skills and judgment that accounting careers require.

Being based in central London, close to the capital's global financial centre, gives you access to one of the world's most significant professional accounting communities and all the career opportunities that proximity brings.

Accounting graduates move into careers across the financial services sector and beyond. Public practice accounting, working in firms of all sizes across audit, tax and advisory services, is the most direct route, and many graduates pursue chartered accountant qualifications through the ICAEW, ACCA or CIMA alongside their careers. Management accounting and financial analysis roles in commercial organisations, public sector finance, and roles in financial technology and fintech are also common destinations.

The placement experience significantly strengthens your position in a competitive professional job market by demonstrating practical capability alongside academic qualification.