Accounting with Finance (Hons)

Overview

Overview

Modern accountancy isn't all about number crunching and spreadsheets. As an accountant you need to be able to understand, visualise and present financial data to ensure businesses make the right decisions. You'll be at the heart of the business, analysing performance and informing strategy.

Accounting with Finance (Hons) at University of Portsmouth focuses on modern accountancy skills. You'll learn to inform and persuade using numbers. You'll work in small groups that replicate the workplace, with a focus on teamwork, real world case studies and developing strategy from financial data.

From your second year you'll be able to tailor your learning to your area of specialist interest, choosing your modules to focus on:

• professional modules: take the fastest route to becoming an ACCA chartered accountant
• finance modules: your best preparation route for working in banking or investment management
• analytics modules: combine accounting with data analysis, including data cleaning, visualisation and modelling

This accounting with finance course is accredited by four key accounting bodies (ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA and ICAEW), so whichever route you take you'll have lots of exemptions from professional exams when you graduate.

Course highlights

• Be taught by professionally qualified accountants who have industry experience with companies such as KPMG, Deloitte and HSBC
• Get on the fast track to becoming a chartered accountant through our accredited exemptions from professional exams with 3 global accounting bodies
• Be employment-ready by using industry-standard software and databases such as Oracle, SAP, Sage and S&P Capital IQ
• Choose options in business analytics to develop the skills that modern accounting needs
• Benefit from the opportunity to gain additional certifications, for example the ACCA Data Analytics Certificate
• Gain a Bloomberg Certificate (a trading platform that's used by 250,000 financial service professionals) in our dedicated Bloomberg Suite
• Apply your learning by helping student entrepreneurs and local charities such as Age Concern and The Rowans Hospice with their finances

• Feel supported throughout your studies through our peer mentoring, maths support and our team of friendly staff who'll get to know you well

Careers and opportunities

Accountants are needed in good times and bad and they're needed in every type of business. This means that you can apply your skills in any sector you're passionate about, from sports and entertainment, to manufacturing, charities, or the arts. You'll also be able to work in other parts of the world as your accredited qualification is recognised internationally.

Our graduates go on to work in accounting practice, the finance departments of large corporations, and the finance sector.

Previous graduates of this course have got jobs at companies such as:

• Deloitte
• PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
• Menzies LLP
• HWB Accountants
• EY Global (Ernst & Young)
• JPP Financial
• Barclays
• Lockheed Martin UK
• Lloyds Register
• J P Morgan
• Grant Thornton
• Royal Bank of Scotland

Graduates of this course have secured jobs as:

• accountant
• auditor
• finance analyst
• financial consultant
• investment broker
• control analyst
• financial reporting analyst

• tax analyst

If you decide at the end of your studies that you don't want to qualify as an accountant there are many other options open to you. The data analysis skills and problem-solving skills you'll develop on this course will open many other doors.

You could also choose to continue your studies at postgraduate level, or set up your own business with help and support from the University.