BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance with Foundation Year Bachelor's degree at Birmingham City University

Diversity and inclusion is a key area of importance for all businesses in our current society. Diversity and inclusion policies within organisations as well as attracting creative and diverse staff and improving staff retention, has also been proven to lead to higher revenues and greater success within business (Forbes, 2022). As future business school graduates, whatever business you go in to, this will be a key consideration for successful managers and organisations.

This module introduces the essentials of accounting and finance, equipping you with practical knowledge and skills crucial for effective financial management in modern businesses. You will learn fundamental accounting principles, including how to prepare and interpret basic financial statements and apply management accounting techniques such as budgeting and performance evaluation. The module also covers the fundamentals of finance, including investment basics, the role of financial institutions

The environment in which businesses operate is vital to their operating activities. In some cases, it can determine the success or failure of a business. Therefore, understanding the context of business will offer dynamic and comprehensive knowledge about critical issues impacting business from diverse perspectives.

The Business & Professional Skills module is designed to equip students with essential academic and business skills required for success in a professional environment. This foundation module covers fundamental areas such as purposeful reading, effective academic and report writing, and key employability skills like business communication and self-reflection.

This specialist module introduces you to the concept of marketing, its strategic importance, and the marketing process. The emphasis is on understanding the customer, ensuring that products and services meet with customers' needs and ways of influencing customer behaviour. The module provides an opportunity for you to research and investigate the market strategy of a business operation.

The Foundation Project module is a practical piece of extended work related to your chosen degree. It requires you to apply the knowledge and skills developed throughout your current level of study and will enhance your ability to work individually and as part of a team. The module will equip you with essential skills and knowledge that form the basis for successfully managing future projects in various settings. During the project, you will be given the space, time, and facilities to support a

Ethical behaviours and professional standards are underpinning elements of business activities and as such important parts of any business based education. The module will cover the fundamental principles of ethics and ethical conflict, giving you practical examples and activities that will encourage you to develop your appreciation and understanding of the content and purpose of the differing frameworks, values and attitudes.

Whilst your degree is a highly valued indicator of achievement and ability for employers, a successful career is also dependent on the development of the right attitudes and behaviours. This is reflected in the findings from a survey undertaken by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which identifies that, in addition to qualifications, employers also look for broader skills when recruiting individuals straight from education.

This module is designed to develop your fundamental knowledge and understanding of economic theory at introductory level and to basic finance as well as the financial world within which businesses operate. The Finance aspect of this module includes concepts such as Financial Objectives of Firm, Financial Environment, Time Value of Money, Investment Appraisal, Sources of Short and Long Term Finance, and Cost of Capital, will be introduced. It has many mathematical calculations which include the a

This module introduces the preparation of financial statements for a sole trader and develops the financial statements for a simple limited company. This module covers in depth the recording, processing and reporting of business transactions and events and will help you develop knowledge and understanding of the underlying principles and concepts relating to financial accounting and give you the opportunity to learn and use the system of double entry.

This module is designed to develop your fundamental knowledge and understanding of management accounting techniques. It will introduce you to the use of these accounting techniques to support management in their planning, controlling and decision making processes, both within industry and the service sector.

This module is designed to develop your fundamental knowledge and understanding of management accounting techniques. It will introduce you to the use of these accounting techniques to support management in their planning, controlling and decision making processes, both within industry and the service sector.

This module aims to provide you with the sound conceptual understanding and core practical skills necessary to be able to articulate a critical review of the relevant literature applicable to an accounting and/or finance issue. This will enable you to develop the applied skills needed to source, read widely and reference academic literature.

This module will develop your skills in both the preparation of financial statements for single and group companies (in accordance with the IASBs Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting and relevant International Financial Reporting Standards) and the analysis and understanding of such financial statements. This module will also help develop your skills in ratio analysis and interpretation.

This module builds on the prior management accounting knowledge and it is assumed that you have a basic understanding of how costs behave, short term decision making and the major accounting systems (absorption and marginal costing). The content will develop your knowledge of budgetary control and then focus on applying your learning to various short term decision-making scenarios.

The purpose of financial accounting and management accounting is to provide useful information to external and internal users. Whilst financial accounting provides information to external stakeholders, management accounting provides information to satisfy the needs of internal users, however both financial and management accounting are part of the total accounting information system.

Corporate Finance is a rigorous and comprehensive module that is designed to broaden your understanding of the main issues in modern corporate finance. Corporate Finance is concerned with how businesses raise funds and invest those funds to provide a return to investors. This module aims to equip you with the skills and knowledge required by a financial manager to make appropriate investment and financing decisions for a business in a global environment.

In this module, you will study the financial management of entrepreneurial firms (small and medium sized) and venture firms. You will first consider different sources of financing for entrepreneurial firms including bank loans, government funding, angels, venture capital, peer-to-peer financing, on-line banking, and various types of private equity as well as the process of obtaining these sources. It will also include innovative ways of raising funds such as crowdfunding. You will then consider

This module will introduce aspects of UK taxation to develop knowledge relating to the tax system applicable to individuals and companies. The module will enable you to develop skills relating to the general principles of taxation, the UK tax framework and regulatory environment. The module will introduce the computational aspects of income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax in respect of individuals and introduce corporation tax and value added tax for bus

This module will guide you to develop your understanding of the technologies of the modern age and how they are transforming the business world and the finance function.

This module focuses on the tools and techniques used by Operation Managers within service, manufacturing, private and public sector institutions to ensure activities are aligned with corporate and market objectives. The module requires you to apply a range of operations management tools and techniques to given scenarios in order to produce a range of verbal, written and numerical solutions focussed on the efficiency, effectiveness and economy of an operation's processes.

This module introduces you to personal investments and wealth management of individuals. You will learn about the wealth management process and be able to develop investment policy statements for individuals given their unique goals, constraints and circumstances. In addition, you will develop a thorough understanding of the different global tax regimes. You will also develop analytical skills in estate planning and risk management of personal investments.

The financial crisis of 2008 exposed the failings of the conventional financial system and an alternate was sort. Islamic Finance is a type of financing activities that must comply with Islamic law (Sharia). The concept can also refer to the investments that are permissible under Islamic Law.

This module is aimed at improving your professional identity and employability capabilities by undertaking work-based learning such as short-term internships, virtual work experience/live briefs, or volunteering. Alongside the work experience you will be exposed to the skills required to successfully compete for a graduate job and progress within your future career. This module will help you to have more certainty about your future career path and an awareness of the skills you need for a succes