Economics with Accountancy with a Year Abroad
Economics with Accountancy is a combination that equips you with both the macroeconomic perspective needed to understand how economies and markets function and the technical financial skills required to report, analyse, and manage organisational finances. Economics develops your capacity to reason about aggregate behaviour, market dynamics, and policy consequences. Accountancy gives you the technical command of financial reporting, management accounting, and corporate finance that is directly valuable in professional practice.
At the University of East Anglia, this four-year full-time BSc includes a year abroad delivered in partnership with Norwich Business School, giving you the international experience of studying in a different academic and business environment alongside the core academic content. You will cover both quantitative economic analysis, including econometrics and mathematical economics, and the technical content of accountancy including financial reporting, management accounting, taxation, and audit. Data skills, including coding and visualisation using statistical tools and industry-standard software, are built into the programme, reflecting the reality that both economics and accountancy are increasingly data-intensive disciplines in professional practice.
The year abroad adds a genuinely international dimension to your education, and the collaboration with Norwich Business School ensures that the programme has strong connections to the professional and commercial contexts in which economics and accounting graduates work.
Graduates move into careers in professional accountancy (often continuing to qualification with ACA, ACCA, or CIMA), financial analysis, corporate finance, investment banking, economic consultancy, public sector finance, and management in organisations across all sectors. The year abroad strengthens your profile for international roles and for organisations that operate across borders. Postgraduate study in finance, economics, or accounting is also a natural next step for graduates who want to specialise further.