ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE at Canterbury Christ Church University

Alongside the specifics of finance and accounting, this programme gives you a solid grounding in the challenges of managing organisations, information technology and analytical skills.As well as lectures, seminars, and workshops, you will benefit from Christ Church Business School’s extensive links with industry. Guest speakers are regularly invited to address our students, and our ‘Business Futures’ weeks promote interaction with businesses. You will have excellent opportunities to under take work placements, supported by a dedicated placement officer.Christ Church Business School recognises the importance of professional body accreditation and the programme is structured to allow you to gain exemptions from major accounting bodies.

You will explore areas including:

• economics
• financial accounting
• information technology.

Why study accounting and finance?

The single honours Accounting and Finance degree is structured so that you have opportunity to apply for exemptions from major accounting bodies: ACCA, ICAEW, CIMA, CIPFA, and CPA Australia. 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 which prepare you for a professional career in accounting and finance. The option modules provide you with the opportunity to gain a broader understanding of the business world.

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.

We also ensure that industry stakeholders regularly contribute to the lecture programme to enhance your experience.