Accounting & Finance and Economics

Accounting and finance combined with economics brings together three interconnected disciplines that between them address how organisations manage their financial resources, how financial markets function, and how the wider economy operates. Accounting provides the language and frameworks through which financial performance is recorded, reported, and analysed, training you to prepare and interpret financial statements, manage costs, and apply the quantitative tools of financial analysis. Finance extends this into the study of capital markets, investment decisions, risk management, and corporate financial strategy.

Economics adds the broader analytical science of how markets allocate resources, how macroeconomic policy shapes growth and employment, and how individuals and institutions respond to incentives. The combination develops a particularly rigorous and multidimensional understanding of money, markets, and organisations.

At Liverpool Hope University, this three-year full-time degree develops all three disciplines across a structured programme that also incorporates several features of professional and practical value. A sandwich year with work placement provides a substantial period of experience in a professional accounting, finance, or economic context, while the option of a year abroad broadens your perspective on financial systems and economic practice in other national contexts. Work placement is embedded as a core feature, giving you the kind of applied, portfolio-building professional experience that employers consistently value when recruiting graduates into finance and economics roles.

Graduates are exceptionally well positioned for careers in financial services, accounting, and economic analysis. Professional qualification with bodies such as the ICAEW, ACCA, CIMA, or CFA is a natural next step for many, using the degree as the academic foundation for chartered accountancy, management accounting, or investment analysis credentials. Roles in financial analysis, investment management, economic research, tax, audit, risk management, and corporate finance are common destinations.

Many graduates also continue to postgraduate study in accounting, finance, economics, or financial economics, building the specialist depth needed for senior roles in the fields where all three disciplines converge.