Accounting with Placement Year
Essentials
At a glance
BSc Accounting with Placement Year
| Programme Code | |
|---|---|
| N409 | |
| Course Duration | |
| 4 years | |
| Mode of study | |
| Full Time | |
| Typical offers | |
| A Level | AAA |
| BTEC | DDD |
| International Baccalaureate | 37 |
| Location |
|---|
| Durham City |
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Graduate from a professionally accredited accounting degree, ready to start your career.
Course Summary
Course Summary
Description
This is a single honours degree in Accounting, with a placement year. With maximum professional accreditation, this degree allows you to graduate as a partly exam-qualified accountant. The degree embeds a strong employability theme and demonstrates a clear pathways for you, allowing you to specialise in your final year and also to complete an independent piece of research in an area related to your work-experience or in an area of special interest.
This degree will be taught on a semesterised basis, with new modules being introduced each term. The degree incorporates a strong employability theme throughout the course in both credit bearing and non-credit bearing activities
Course Structure
Because this is a degree with a strong link to a professional role and a professional career following graduation, the first two years of the course are made up of compulsory modules, with an opportunity to specialise in chosen areas and develop a research project in Year 3.
The degree has six coherent subject pillars and one theme:
- Financial accounting and reporting (Years 1, 2 and 3)
- Management accounting (Years 1, 2 and 3)
- Information technology (Years 1, 2 and 3)
- Audit and assurance (Years 2 and 3)
- Taxation (Years 2 and 3)
- Research in accounting (Year 3)
- Employability theme (running throughout the degree)
The subject pillars build throughout the degree so that you can identify linkages between modules. The employability theme helps you to understand the link between work done and employability skills gained from both credit and non-credit bearing activities.
Levels 1 and 2 of the degree are made up of core modules, as follows:
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Level 1 |
Credit value |
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Financial Accounting |
20 |
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The Accountant in Business |
20 |
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Quantitative Business Skills and Data Analysis |
20 |
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Skills for the Professional Accountant |
10 |
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Management Accounting |
20 |
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Ethics in Finance and Accounting |
10 |
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Micro and Macro Economics for Accounting |
10 |
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Introduction to Corporate and Business Law |
10 |
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Level 2 |
Credit value |
|
Financial Management |
20 |
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Intermediate Management Accounting |
20 |
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Taxation |
20 |
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Financial Reporting |
20 |
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Introduction to Audit and Assurance |
20 |
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Business Strategy and Technology |
20 |
Placement year (optional)
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|
Credit value |
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Placement Year in Accounting |
N/A |
Level 3 (Degree)
The core modules in Level 3 are:
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Credit value |
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Research Methods in Accounting |
20 |
|
Accounting Project |
40 |
Candidates shall also study and be assessed in modules in the Michaelmas Term to the value of 40 credits from List A:
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List A: |
Credit value |
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Corporate Reporting ¡ |
20 |
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Advanced Management Accounting ¡ |
20 |
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Data Analytics and Intelligence for Accounting |
20 |
Candidates shall also study and be assessed in modules in the Epiphany Term to the value of 20 credits from List B:
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List B: |
Credit value |
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Advanced Audit and Assurance |
20 |
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Business Tax Planning †† |
20 |
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Fundamentals of Corporate Governance and Accountability |
20 |
Placement Year
You may be able to take a work placement. Find out more.
Learning and Teaching
Course Learning and Teaching
Lectures deliver basic subject-specific learning, and provide a framework for further study.
Seminars provide opportunities for students to explore issues in greater depth, test their own understanding of the material studied, engage in group work, assess arguments in a group context and defend and debate different opinions.
Workshops are used to allow students to work independently, under supervision, in small groups on questions, problems or case studies and build on subject-specific learning, developing key skills.
Guided reading and independent study provide a structure within which students exercise and extend their abilities to make use of available learning resources.
Accounting project preparation and supervision foster independent learning and the ability to manage a planned programme of research.
In particular, the course takes advantage of technology enhanced active learning, where appropriate and, particularly in the context of employability and professional skills, experiential learning techniques.
This degree has a holistic approach to the student journey – enhancing the academic aspects of the course with a schedule of extra-curricular, non-credit bearing components that will aim to develop the skills of the students to improve their opportunities for employment.
The degree will have a clear emphasis on recruitability and employability. In the context of the subject matter of the degree, in the first instance, this will be in relation to accountancy-related careers, however, all graduates will have skills gained through the course and also the non-credit bearing aspects of the degree that should enhance their employment opportunities.
In Year 1, this commences with the first teaching week being devoted to a week-long induction, accounting-related exercise. Formal teaching on the degree modules, therefore, commences in week two of the term. The aims of this exercise are as follows:
- To foster a learning community between staff and students on the course (the first year induction exercise is to be staffed by staff teaching on the degree in Year 1 and members of the wider programme team.
- To generate group relationships between students, making their initial experiences on the degree less daunting.
- To introduce the concept of team-work to students – to ensure that group theory is explored, and enable better participation in group activities, both assessed and un-assessed throughout the degree. This should be particularly useful for students whose educational background has not encouraged group participation.
- To introduce students to the subject of accounting with an absorbing, authentic and inspiring business exercise, which will link to the knowledge and skills introduced in the first year of the programme. We aim to create anticipation for the year ahead.
- To explicitly embed the skills required for study in higher education into the curriculum. This is particularly important in terms of our aim for this degree to contribute to widening participation in Higher Education, given its links to employability.
Because the degree is semesterised, exams in the Easter term will be scheduled in Weeks 3 and 4 of the Easter term. The programme team will have a programme of activities for weeks 4 and 5 of the Easter term in Years 1 and 2, as follows:
Year 1:
- Assessment centre and interview training
- Employability and recruitability workshops
- Workshops introducing the skills needed for Year 2 modules.
Year 2:
- Placement preparation training
- Recruitability bootcamp
- Year 3 options choices taster sessions.
In week one of Year 3/4, we have scheduled a week-long Graduate Camp – the rationale is to re-orientate those who have been on placement into the programme and to ensure that all students are ready for the challenge of the final year – the exercise we will develop for this week’s activities will relate to the critical thinking and research aspects of the final year of the degree.
As the course relates to the profession of accountancy, the degree must consider applied as well as theoretical aspects of the study of accounting. Through our close relationships with the major professional accounting bodies and leading employers, we will provide ample opportunities for students to engage with the world of practice and critically appraise how theory and practice meet, through research forums, guest speakers and debates.
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Admissions Process
Subject requirements, level and grade
A strong proficiency in Mathematics is required. If Mathematics is not taken as an A level subject, a grade 7 (or grade A) in Mathematics at GCSE is required. We particularly welcome the introduction of the Core Mathematics Qualification and we will accept a Core Maths Qualification (grade B minimum) in lieu of our GCSE Mathematics requirement.
A level offer - AAA.
We consider all A level subjects, with the exception of General Studies, therefore General Studies would not be included in any offer.
BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma/OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma – DDD.
IB score - 37 to include 666 in higher-level subjects. If Mathematics is not taken at a higher level, then it is required at standard level 6.
In the context of widening participation, we will consider contextual offers, including guaranteed contextual offers for participation in a supported progression programme.
English Language requirements
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How to apply
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Fees and Funding
Fees and Funding
Full Time Fees
| EU Student | £22,900.00 per year |
|---|---|
| Home Student | £9,250.00 per year |
| Island Student | £9,250.00 per year |
| International non-EU Student | £22,900.00 per year |
The tuition fees shown for home students are for one complete academic year of full time study and are set according to the academic year of entry. Fees for subsequent years of your course may rise in line with an inflationary uplift as determined by the government.
The tuition fees shown for overseas and EU students are for one complete academic year of full time study, are set according to the academic year of entry, and remain the same throughout the duration of the programme for that cohort (unless otherwise stated).
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