Are you interested in a rewarding and professional career? This accredited course offers the ideal platform for students to develop theoretical and practical skills valued by employers. Our close links with professional accounting bodies provide you with the opportunity to gain exemptions from some professional exams, allowing you to complete them at a faster pace and giving you a head start in the graduate jobs market.
You will study accounting modules that will give you a solid grounding in key business concepts, ideas and methodologies. The Economics modules will teach you how to analyse and measure real economic issues based on your knowledge of economic theory. In your second and third years, you can choose from a range of optional modules to tailor your learning to your interests and career ambitions.
**Key features:**
- You will have the opportunity to gain exemptions from the professional accounting body exams with the ICAEW, subject to optional module choices and any module-specific criteria.
- Benefit from The Trading Room, where you can gain experience of a real-life trading floor environment on campus and online, with access to financial, company and economic data widely used in industry. Students have access to both Bloomberg and Refinitiv/Eikon self-study certifications and their online training materials. These are available to students via campus and online.
- Placements opportunities with local, national and global companies. Previous students have landed roles with the Government Economic Service, the Department for International Trade and the NHS.
- Our graduates are employed by leading brands, with recent successes including PwC, Lloyds Banking Group, IBM, KPMG and Barclays.
- Enjoy an international experience through our DMU Global scheme. Previous study-enhancing trips have included New York, where students visited Wall Street and the Bloomberg headquarters, Copenhagen, Berlin, San Diego and Toronto.
Course Details - Modules
Year 1
Introduction to Accounting
Introduction to Law
Introduction to Macroeconomics
Introduction to Microeconomics
Quantitative Methods
Year 2
Intermediate Micro and Macroeconomics
Performance Measurement in Organisations
Plus option modules from the following indicative list:
Accounting
Business Intelligence Using Excel
Business Taxation
Corporate Finance
Global Issues in Strategic Financial Planning
Economics
Business Research Issues and Analysis
Economic History
European Economics Issues
Financial Markets and Institutions
New Directions in Economics
Year 3
Open Economy Macroeconomics OR Developments in Advanced Microeconomics
Plus option modules from the following indicative list:
Economics
Economics Development
Developments in Advanced Microeconomics
Economics Dissertation
Financial Econometrics
Financial Markets and the Central Bank
International Trade
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Political Economy
Behavioural Economics
Accounting
Accounting Project
Advanced Corporate Finance
Advanced Corporate Taxation
Audit and Assurance
Contemporary Business Issues
Forensic Accounting
Governance and Sustainability
International Developments in Accounting
Managerial Development and Control
Public Sector Accounting and Finance
Course Details – Assessment Method
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) and usually an exam or test, which is typically weighted as follows in your first year:
Exam: 52%
Coursework: 48%
These assessment weightings are indicative only. The exact weighting may vary depending on option modules chosen by students and teaching methods deployed by the academic member of staff each year. Indicative assessment weighting and assessment type per module are shown as part of the module information. Again these are based on the current academic session.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
NL41
Institution code:
D26
Campus Name:
Leicester Campus
Campus code:
Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
from at least two A Levels.
Plus five GCSEs at grades A*–C (9 - 4) including English Language and Maths.
Pass Access with 30 Level 3 credits at Merit or equivalent.
English (Language or Literature) and Maths GCSE required as separate qualifications at grades A* - C (9 -4).
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.0
including a minimum of 5.5 in each component
or equivalent
Unistats information
Student satisfaction :
75%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs):
65%
Go onto work and study:
85%
Fees and funding
EU
14250.0
Year 1
England
9250.0
Year 1
Northern Ireland
9250.0
Year 1
Scotland
9250.0
Year 1
Wales
9250.0
Year 1
International
14250.0
Year 1
Additional Fee Information
Please note that fees for subsequent years of study for continuing students are subject to an annual review. Any increase in fee will be in line with RPI-X (linked to the retail price index) and the fee cap set by the Government.
Provider information
The Gateway
Address2 are not listed for this Course.
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Leicester
LE1 9BH
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