Accounting and Financial Management

Overview

We provide a comprehensive grounding in corporate analysis and reporting, as well as building your confidence in financial decision-making. You then tailor your studies to suit your preferred career direction in industry, commerce or professional services by choosing from optional modules.

You cover topics including:

• theories of financial reporting
• management accounting and control
• theoretical and critical approaches to accounting and financial management
• analysis of financial statements

Your future

We foster your creativity and ethical awareness so you’re ready to meet the challenges of the international business world. In 2018, 80% of Essex Business School postgraduates were in professional employment or postgraduate study within six months of graduating (DLHE 2017).

The Accounting and Financial Management course offered by the University of Essex provides you with the skills needed for roles in financial analysis, management, public administration and accountancy. Our course will be particularly useful if you want to pursue a career in industry, commerce or with professional services firms, with many of our graduates also beginning their own entrepreneurial ventures.