Our BA (Hons) Accounting and Business course, based at our Burnley Campus, offers you the opportunity to gain a solid grounding in accounting, and an understanding of the other aspects of the business environment.

This course gives you the opportunity to specialise in two disciplines, providing you with a greater career choice and a range of highly transferable skills. You’ll be based at our Burnley Campus in Pennine Lancashire, where you’ll benefit from small class sizes and a friendly, supportive learning environment.

If you’re interested in a financial career within the accountancy profession, industry or commerce, you’ll gain a sound understanding of accounting and financial studies. It would also be of interest to those seeking a broader career in a business enterprise working in operations, management and business development with a strong understanding of financial management that drives business strategy and decisions.

You’ll learn the skills necessary to interpret financial information and make management decisions in a wide range of business situations.

• Accounting and Finance courses at the University of Central Lancashire are ranked 1st in the UK for On-Track Graduate Prospects (Complete University Guide 2022).
• Gain valuable insight into the nature of the accounting process and its varied applications in business, including subjects that are fundamental to understanding an enterprise’s financial position.
• The programme recognises the challenges and limitations encountered by placing excessive reliance upon financial information in decision-making, acknowledging the subjectivity and flexibility needed in best practice.

• BM1100: Introduction to Financial Accounting
• BM1200: Introduction to Management Accounting
• BM1300: Information Systems and the Business Environment
• BM1005: Business Landscape
• BM1001: Creativity, Enterprise and Scholarship

YEAR 2

• ?BM2110: Financial Accounting for Managers
• BM2210: Management Accounting Techniques
• BM2420: Finance for Managers in Business
• BM2003: Business Futures
• BM2047: The Business Professional

YEAR 3

• BM3030: Financial and Sustainability Reporting for Managers
• BM3210: Decision Making for Business
• BM3410: Financial Management for Business
• BM3001: Business Strategy
• BM3035: Business and Management Project

? Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

Graduates will have accounting skills appropriate for work in the financial area of private or public sector organisations and will have the added advantage of possessing a thorough understanding of the many other functions within business.

Graduates from the Business School programme have secured positions with a range of employers including IBM, BAE Systems, Halfords, Waitrose, EE, United Utilities, Centrica, Virgin, etc.

A number of graduates are employed by local SMEs and many continue their studies at master’s level.