Accounting at Canterbury Christ Church University

Accounting is at the heart of all business decisions and encompasses a vast range of careers, from traditional auditing to global management consulting. To reflect this, our experienced team has created a wide range of modules structured to allow you to gain a thorough understanding of accounting without committing to a career as an accountant. Christ Church Business School has strong professional links and provides great opportunities to gain work experience toprepare you for the future. We offer you the opportunity to spend a year on a professionalwork placement, supported by a dedicated placement officer. In addition, guest speakers are regularly invited to address our students, and our ‘Business Futures’ weeks promote student interaction with businesses andaccounting firms.

You will explore areas including:

• business analysis
• economics
• people management in the 21st century.

Why accounting?

Our Accounting course is structured to achieve maximum exemptions through accredited modules. Students on the combined honours degrees access some of these accredited modules. These are combined with other discipline specific modules so that after graduating, you will have the flexibility to pursue roles requiring an understanding of accounting, without committing to a career as an accountant.

Knowledge, critical analysis and interpersonal skills are developed through lectures, seminars, workshops and a variety of assessment modes. These satisfy academic, professional, and commercial requirements.

Guest speakers are regularly invited to address our students, and we promote student interaction with businesses and accounting firms through various employability events that we organise throughout the year. The Business School has links with a variety of professional bodies and there are many opportunities for work experience to prepare you for future employment.

Our experienced team has created an engaging course which captures the diversity of this topical area, developing an understanding of both the national and the global dimensions of this discipline. Our Business School courses provide a sound and relevant educational foundation for an array of roles in industry, practice, the service sector or self-employment.

What will i study?

The first year of the Accounting degree provides a solid grounding in the challenges of managing organisations, information technology and starts to develop the analytical skills that are required by employers. In years two and three there are a variety of core modules, the number of which depends on whether you are taking a single honours or combined honours degree, which prepare you for a professional career. The option modules provide you with the opportunity to gain a broader understanding of the business world.

Work experience

We offer our students the opportunity to spend a year on professional work placement which is supported by a dedicated placement officer within the Business School. You will also have the opportunity to take the work based learning module in year two designed to help develop students’ skills in seeking and obtaining a work placement or internship of a minimum of three weeks’ duration.