BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance Bachelor's degree at Leeds Beckett University

Explore the foundations and understanding of the business and legal structures and environment. You'll relate to the work of the accounting and finance professional as you study the English Legal system, legal business structures and contract law as it affects business. You'll gain an understanding of business stakeholders and the business environment as it applies to the current climate. You'll also use current business scenarios to further your understanding.

Start to develop the soft skills required to begin your career planning journey. You'll begin to gain the digital and professional skills required to work as a professional accountant. This module will also incorporate personal development and resilience tools to enable your success in the modern workplace.

This module will provide an introduction to double entry bookkeeping and base accounting knowledge. You'll start to understand fundamental accounting terms and knowledge.

Begin to develop your knowledge base for preparation of simple financial statements and management accounting concepts. You'll gain further knowledge and continue to build your understanding of accounting terms.

Develop the use of double entry bookkeeping and other techniques to produce company financial statements. This will include the Statement of Cash Flow and the Statement of changes in Equity. This module also covers the detection and correction of errors in accounting information. You'll start to appreciate how desirable characteristics of accounting information and fundamental accounting concepts are applied in practice.

This module will give you an introduction to the legal and ethical backdrop in which finance professionals operate. It will also demonstrate the importance of ethical behaviour, linking to ethical scandals and poor corporate behaviour.

Build on the Introduction to Accounting module to develop an understanding of management accounting concepts and principles.

This module will enable you to practise applying international accounting standards in the production of financial statements. You'll also evaluate accounting standards in the context of accounting concepts and the qualitative characteristics.

Develop a range of skills to support your personal development and employability as you contextualise your studies. You'll present your analysis of the business as part of a formal group presentation. Then you'll formally reflect on the experience of this module.

Further develop skills acquired in the Management Accounting module. You'll continue to explore processing and analysing information for the purposes of management reporting.

Builds on the skills you acquired in your first year of study. This module will further develop the digital skills and core knowledge areas you'll need to be a business professional of the future.

Understand the structure of business finance and its application to the decision-making processes in organisations.

Develop the skills and techniques to produce and interpret the financial statements of a group of companies. You'll use the qualitative characteristics of useful information and the fundamental bases of accounting you've already studied to explore the conceptual framework of accounting. This module will cover the reporting of financial information for groups in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and relevant accounting standards and the analysis. You'll also study the inter

Critically examine the contribution and importance of corporate financial decision making to the achievement of the enterprise's corporate objectives from a strategic perspective.

Practise applying the knowledge and skills you have developed in your degree in the context of a business simulation game.

Understand theoretical accounting issues and learn how to evaluate accounting regulation and guidance. Evaluate approaches to ethical issues and use a range of digital resources to explore accounting issues.

Understand the process of carrying out an audit and its application in the context of the professional regulatory framework.

Learn to select and apply appropriate financial techniques in the production of a realistic and practicable financial business plan.

This module uncovers the dirty secrets of how tax havens work and how they disrupt the global economy. It explores the opaque, secretive and confusing world of financial crimes saturated with stories, rumours and anecdotes.

Gain theoretical knowledge and practical skills relating to the tax affairs of UK resident individuals.

This module will examine fundamental concepts of international business finance and international trade. You'll learn about the formation of multinational corporations and the business challenges they face in a dynamic global context.

Study the corporate taxation matters that are most significant for UK accounting and business decisions. You will focus on the rules for computing the corporation tax and VAT liabilities of a trading company, and you will adopt the way in which professional accountants conventionally present the results to company directors and to the UK tax authorities.

You will demonstrate a full range of skills, knowledge, and competencies developed over three years of study. This module provides an opportunity for you to choose and explore a field of study that has particularly engaged your interest.

Apply for a placement and undertake a period of paid employment to give you the opportunity to develop business contacts and gain understanding of the jobs and career market.