Accounting and Finance Birmingham City University

Overview

What's covered in the course?

The Accounting and Finance course at Birmingham City University is highly flexible, allowing you to customise your degree to align more closely with a particular professional body or specialise in particular areas of accounting or finance. The flexible course explores a range of business disciplines, offers real world examples and case studies and is recognised by the major global professional bodies enabling fast track progression to internationally recognised professional accounting qualifications upon completion.

Why Choose Us?

• Our accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) helps boost your postgraduate qualification even more, giving you professional qualifications employers would be hard pressed to ignore.*
• Our accreditation allows us to offer an extensive list of CIMA exemptions, including all CIMA papers up to (but not including) the Final Strategic Case Study, which we also offer tuition for upon completion of your MSc (in November / December).The Accounting and Finance - MSc is provided by Birmingham City University. 
• We also boast close links with CIMA, who offer our students reduced registration and exam fees, as well as full access to their support content, which includes webinars and online support.
• The course offers a high level of flexibility in terms of your module choices.
• Maximise your CIMA exemptions by choosing particular modules, and take only one external CIMA exam at the end of the course. Preparation for this (final case study) exam is included in the course.*
• If you are seeking to become a qualified accountant, you can take our ACCA course first (available full or part-time) and then only take the final 60 credit dissertation module to gain the full MSc Accounting and Finance degree. Our status as a Platinum Approved Learning Partner reflects the quality of our course provision and teaching.
• If you are already a qualified ACCA or CCAB accountant, you need only take the final 60 credit dissertation module to gain the full MSc degree.
• The University is an active research centre, and the latest Research Excellence Framework 2014 report found that we’ve doubled the amount of staff producing internationally recognised research.

• The course offers a recognised and respected programme of study around one of the business world’s key functions.