BA Hons Accounting and Business Management with Foundation year

This applied and industry-engaged course gives you the edge in business by combining key management skills with financial expertise and strategic capabilities. You will also gain some exemptions from professional accounting exams.

Why study accounting and business management?

Effective financial and strategic management skills are highly sought after in business, and combined expertise will help you stand out in the graduate marketplace.

Why UWE Bristol?

The BA(Hons) Accounting and Business Management will prepare you to take on key management roles where your financial acumen will give you a valuable additional perspective.

Teaching balances technical accounting with management theory and practice, so you'll learn to manage effectively and make sound strategic and business and financial decisions.

Through regular guest speakers and employer partnerships, your learning is led by industry best practice and current innovations, so you're all set to enter practice in the real world.

In our Bristol Business School, you'll benefit from purpose-facilities which include interactive learning rooms and spaces for individual and group study.

You'll explore and apply real-time financial data in our Bloomberg Trading Suite, and attain the industry-recognized Bloomberg Certificate. At every stage of the course you'll be able to access academic skills support from the Academic Success Centre.

Develop your entrepreneurial skills though the University enterprise competitions and Grand Challenge projects. Join a Business Clinic team and gain experience of providing pro bono advice to small businesses and voluntary organisations.

This course shares a first year with our BSc(Hons) Accounting and BA(Hons) Accounting and Finance, with full transferability between courses at the end of the first year.

Where can it take me?

A sound financial grounding combined with effective management knowledge and skills will prepare you for leadership roles in a range of business and industry environments.

You might go on to join a graduate management training scheme in a major corporation, or decide to pursue professional qualifications in accounting or finance, or start your own business.

• Tariff points: 48
• GCSE: Grade C/4 in English Literature or Language and Mathematics, or equivalent. We do not accept Level 2 Key Skills, Functional Skills or Certificates in Adult Numeracy and Literacy as alternatives to GCSEs.
• English Language Requirement: International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 with 5.5 in each component
• A-level subjects: No specific subjects required

There is high demand for graduates with leadership and management skills. The added knowledge of finance and strategic decision-making gives you a further competitive edge, opening up many career options.

This course makes an ideal launch pad for careers in management roles with a financial emphasis, or more broadly into investment, accountancy, banking and personal and corporate finance roles.

Our students go on to management and financial roles in a wide range of sectors, working in investment and accounting firms, banks and major companies as well as SMEs and business start-ups. Through the range of option pathways, you can gain specialist knowledge in areas such as sustainability, leadership, entrepreneurship, private wealth management, and credit management.

Recent graduates have secured roles with Amazon, Intel, Lloyds Banking Group, PWC, Hargreaves Lansdown and Airbus.