BSc Accounting and Finance 

For all first, second and third year students

Paper

Course number and title

Year 1

1

AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance

2

EC102 Economics B

3

MA107 Quantitative Methods (Mathematics) (H) and ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (H) or ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory or ST108 Probability and Statistics for the Social Sciences*

4

One of:
MA100 Mathematical Methods (must be selected if ST102 taken under paper 3)
or MA110 Basic Quantitative Methods (must be selected if ST108 taken under paper 3)*
or an approved paper taught outside the Department

Year 2

5

AC211 Managerial Accounting

6

FM212 Principles of Finance

7

Either EC201 Microeconomic Principles I or EC202 Microeconomic Principles II or EC210 Macroeconomic Principles

8

One of:
Either EC220 Introduction to Econometrics or EC221 Principles of Econometrics
Either ID200 Organisational Theory and Behaviour, LL209 Commercial Law, MN200 The Process of Management or OR202 Operational Research Methods 
Approved papers to the value of one unit taught outside the Department (normally papers available only to second or third year students)

Year 3

9

AC330 Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation

10

Either AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organizational Control or AC340 Auditing, Governance and Risk Management

11

Either FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets or FM320 Quantitative Finance

12

One from the selection list below:
(if not already taken under papers 10 &11): 
AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organizational Control
AC340 Auditing, Governance and Risk Management
FM300 Corporate Finance, Investments and Financial Markets
FM320 Quantitative Finance

(if not already taken under papers 7 or 8):
EC201 Microeconomic Principles I
EC210 Macroeconomic Principles 
EC220 Introduction to Econometrics or EC221 Principles of Econometrics

(if not already taken under paper 8):
ID200 Organisational Theory and Behaviour
LL209 Commercial Law
MN200 The Process of Management
OR202 Operational Research Methods

Or one of the following:
EC315 International Economics
EH240 Business and Economic Performance since 1945: Britain in International Context
ID290 Human Resource Management
LN320 Spanish Language and Society 5 (Mastery)
LN330 French Language and Society 5 (Mastery)
MA200 Further Mathematical Methods (Calculus) (H)
MA201 Further Mathematical Methods (Linear Algebra) (H)
MA203 Real Analysis (H)
MA207 Further Quantitative Methods (H)
MA300 Game Theory
MA301 Game Theory 1 (H)
MA303 Chaos in Dynamic Systems (H)
MA310 Mathematics and Finance Evaluation (H)
SO203 Political Sociology
SO212 Work, Management and Globalisation
ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis (H)
ST202 Probability, Distribution and Inference
ST203 Statistics for Management Sciences
ST307 Aspects of Market Research (H)
ST331 Decision Theory and Bayesian Statistics (H)

In exceptional circumstances a student may take a course not listed above, but permission will need to be sought from the Departmental Tutor. No first year courses can be taken in the third year.

Notes

* ST108 and MA110 must be taken by those students who have not studied Mathematics beyond GCSE level or equivalent.

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