BSc (Hons) Accounting and Management with Placement Experience Bachelor's degree at the University of Reading

Explore the techniques, principles and underlying concepts relating to the analysis of management accounting information - including the examination of costs, revenues and profits. You'll gain experience of the approaches used in today's businesses and understand how they fit together to provide an overview of a business' performance.

Explore the fundamentals of sustainability, ethics, and international business strategy, with a focus on their relevance to the professional accountant's role. You'll study key business concepts, theories, and models within the context of sustainability and ethical frameworks.

Develop a sound understanding of the techniques of double-entry bookkeeping, and learn how to apply its principles in recording accounting transactions, adjusting financial records, and preparing non-complex financial statements.

Gain an understanding of the principles of English law that are relevant in a commercial context, and particularly those relevant to accountancy qualifications. The content of this module aligns with the requirements for professional accreditation.

Study key concepts in data analytics and explore visualisation techniques for summarising data. Topics will include: types of data, types of distributions (with an emphasis on the normal distribution), using parametric and non-parametric tests to analyse statistical differences, and regression models. You'll also gain experience in using GUI-based tools for analysing data.

Develop the key skills and competencies to thrive in your studies and your career, including communication, business writing and time management skills. You'll also explore careers theories and gain practical skills that can help you with internships, placements or applications for graduate positions.

Develop an understanding of micro- and macroeconomics, enabling you to see how businesses are affected by developments in specific markets as well as by changes at the level of the entire economy.

Discover the purpose of the financial management function within a business. Explore the theory and practice of financing decisions. Develop your knowledge, understanding and skills of financial management, assessing the working capital needs of a business and the ways in which the elements of working capital may be managed.

Study the various International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), along with the related accounting concepts you'll need to understand in order to prepare single entity and consolidated financial statements.

Gain insight into financial information techniques, principles, and concepts for organisational decision-making, planning, and control. Understand theories, technical language, and practices within the business context, including contemporary management accounting developments.

Enhance your knowledge of the UK tax system and calculate income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax and inheritance tax for individuals in given scenarios.

Discover the nature and purpose of audit and assurance and gain a practical understanding of the work undertaken by assurance providers. You'll examines the stages of the audit process, considering the work done by the assurance provider at each stage. The importance of assurance in achieving good corporate governance, and its wider political, economic and social context will also be considered.

Contextualise current issues and debates in finance by placing them in the historical evolution of finance. Understand how finance has evolved over time and where it may develop in the future.

Gain an overview of the scientific consensus on climate change and its projected social and economic consequences, in order to understand how the financial sector can help to mitigate and manage these impacts.

Cultivate your understanding of banking law in the UK as you study the banker and customer relationship, the duty of banks to maintain confidentiality, and other issues related to transactions.

This module discusses and analyses marketing theories, as well as strategic marketing tools and techniques used in the business world. You'll explore the elements needed to develop a marketing strategy, including assessing your competitors and customers, market trends, brand positioning, the "marketing mix", and organisational capabilities.

Explore global management variations and their impact on firm performance. Learn about national differences in business systems, innovation, and organizational behaviour. You'll cover topics such as globalization, governance, education, and industrial relations across countries like the USA, China, Japan, Britain, France, and Germany.

Explore the fundamental concepts and theories that underpin the design, implementation, control, evaluation and strategic use of information systems in business.

Examine two key issues within marketing: branding and the preparation of a branding orientated project. You'll gain in-depth understanding of the theories and practices related to brand management, and the process of building a strong brand. The project will provide an opportunity to apply the concepts you've learned in a creative team task.

Gain an understanding of business strategy with particular emphasis on how the activities of an organisation are interrelated, both with each other and with the strategic, competitive and environmental contexts that they operate in.

Acquire an integrated perspective on the role of nations and firms in the global economy and an introduction to international business and economics. You'll explore the key questions of why and how firms go abroad and the consequences of international business activity for the nations, firms and people of the global economy.

Discover key concepts of business start-up as you identify and develop a new business opportunity and test your idea through 'lean start-up' experiments. You'll gain entrepreneurial management skills such as design thinking, business model creation, and entrepreneurial finance and marketing.

Study the wider context of finance within the high-end film and TV industry. You'll also learn about the detail and nature of a production accounting role.