Course overview
This course may appeal to you if you're interested in becoming an accountant, working at a financial organisation or working in the finance department of any business.
You can gain:
- A bachelor's degree in just one year.
- A globally focused grounding in accounting and financial management, delivered in the heart of the City of London.
- Experience using industry-standard programmes, including Bloomberg Terminals and our S&P Market Intelligence Suite.
- Knowledge of world economies and development, international investment, and business management, from a finance and accounting perspective.
Why you should study this course
You will have the opportunity to:
- Learn how to give sound financial advice and make effective financial decisions.
- Develop your analytical skills and strategic thinking.
- Draw upon international case studies to foster your intercultural fluency.
- Develop the practical skills needed for working in the finance industry.
What you'll study
This course aims to give you the opportunity to develop the practical skills and experience you need for accounting and finance roles. Once you have graduated, you should have the confidence to provide sound financial advice and make effective financial decisions.
We have designed this course to reflect business systems, standards and practices from around the world. It draws upon international case studies with the objective of fostering your intercultural fluency, and aims to develop your analytical skills, perspectives on financial strategy and strategic thinking.
How you'll learn
You will typically receive around ten hours of contact teaching per week. The contact hours may be made up of a combination of face-to-face teaching, individual and group sessions, and online classes.
Additionally, you would be expected to undertake significant self-directed study of approximately 46 hours each week, depending on the demands of individual modules.
Course content will be taught by university staff and supplemented by representatives from industry such as experts, consultants and contractors (subject to availability), who will share knowledge and insights from their industries2.
Activity-based learning is used throughout the delivery of the module, to maximise the opportunities to apply theory and processes to real-life situations.
As an innovative and enterprising institution, the university may seek to utilise emerging technologies within the student experience. For all courses (whether on-campus, blended, or distance learning), the university may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via online technologies and methods.
Since COVID-19, we have delivered our courses in a variety of forms, in line with public authority guidance, decisions, or orders and we will continue to adapt our delivery as appropriate. Whether on campus or online, our key priority is staff and student safety.
Assessment
Your learning will be assessed using a combination of exams and coursework, including essays, reports, presentations, simulations and workshop activities.
All of our assessments give you the opportunity to demonstrate subject knowledge and develop professional skills, including report-writing, structuring a logical argument, analysing data or making a compelling presentation.
The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards the achieving the intended learning outcomes.
International experience opportunities
You will have the opportunity to gain an international experience in many ways. Coventry University London is a hugely multicultural university, so our typically diverse student and staff body helps to facilitate a multicultural learning environment.
The course examines international regulations and case studies, encouraging you to think about issues from cross-cultural perspectives.
The course also covers the business operations of global organisations, helping you develop globally focused knowledge and expertise.
Careers and opportunities
On successful completion of this course, you will:
- Graduate with well-developed analytical skills, clear perspectives on financial strategy and highly effective communication and research skills, all of which are demanded by employers in the private and public accounting and finance sectors.
- Be well-placed to progress on to sitting ACCA, CIMA and ICAEW exams, if desired.
- Be well-equipped to meet potential management challenges of the future.
On successful completion of the course, you should be well placed to pursue a wide variety of careers in finance, management, accounting, banking and finance, in private, public and third-sector organisations.
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