Business Management with Finance (Hons)

Overview

The Business Management with Finance (Hons) course at the University of Huddersfield aims to give students a thorough grounding in finance and business, and give them lots of chances to see how the theory works in the real world. 

To give you the chance to gain a better understanding of business and finance, the course covers key business topics. You’ll study financial and management accounting, corporate reporting and business ethics – all of which will give you the chance to understand how businesses can operate in a socially responsible and ethical way. And you can choose from a range of finance modules to build your specialist skills.

The course offers an optional one-year (48 weeks) work placement after the second year, in the UK or abroad. Our Placement Office works with national and international employers to ensure excellent work experience opportunities are available to you on placement courses as well as giving advice in areas such as interview skills and preparing CVs and covering letters.

Previous placement providers have Tax Assist, Thornton & Ross, Atkins, Seven Energy, Alco Valves, Fonebank and Redmayne Bentley Stockbrokers.

How will you learn? 

• We aim to give you a thorough grounding in business and finance and give you lots of chances to apply theory to the real world

• We’ll give you the opportunity to take a placement year, working in a business, either here in the UK or abroad.

• We have close links with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and you’ll have the opportunity to achieve a professional CMI qualification in Management and Leadership through no additional study or assessment.

• To help you go on to employment, you will also have the chance to take advice from our HR professionals. They could help you create CVs and portfolios, and work on your interview technique too.

Careers

Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Digital Marketing & Media Assistant, Front Line Manager, HR Recruiter, Customer Service Associate, Account Executive and Operations Manager in organisations including Yorkshire Air Ambulance, Morrisons, ASSIST Sheffield, HSBS, Softcat Limited, Deltec International Courier Ltd and Hoardtek.