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Undergraduate courses/Accounting and Finance courses/Accounting with Business Management

Key facts

Entry requirements

112 or DDM

Full entry requirements

UCAS code

NN41

Institution code

D26

Duration

3 yrs full-time, 4 yrs with placement

Three years full-time, four years full-time with placement.

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

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Entry requirements

112 or DDM

Full entry requirements

UCAS code

NN41

Institution code

D26

Duration

3 yrs full-time, 4 yrs with placement

Three years full-time, four years full-time with placement.

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

See all the key facts

Our Accounting with Business Management BSc is one of only 6 programmes in the UK to achieve partner status with CIMA and has been awarded an impressive 11 CIMA exemptions.

In today’s fast-paced world, businesses need adaptable and forward-thinking individuals who can navigate financial challenges and respond effectively in times of crisis. Our Accounting with Business Management BSc offers an exciting opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in a dynamic and competitive environment.

This degree combines in-depth accounting expertise with a strong foundation in business management, helping you build strong analytical skills while exploring key areas such as Financial Accounting, Digital Business and Data Analytics, and Critical Risk Management. You’ll also develop valuable insights into management, technology, and organisational strategy, making you highly versatile in the world of business.

With a focus on enhancing your employability, the programme is designed to align with the requirements of professional accounting bodies, offering exemptions from prestigious qualifications like CIMA, ACCA, ICAEW, and more. The innovative Accounting Simulation module allows you to apply your skills in real-world scenarios, preparing you for a successful career in accounting or finance.

  • Faster Professional Qualification: Our accounting and business management degree is one of only 6 UK programmes with CIMA partner status, offering 11 CIMA exemptions. Exemptions reduce the number of exams you need to take, speeding up your journey to becoming a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).
  • A head start towards gaining your professional qualification: Additional exemptions are available from ACCA, ICAEW, CPA Australia, CIPFA, and AIA.
  • Personalise your learning: Choose between the Project Management for Sustainable Business or Accounting Simulation modules, which both offer valuable real-world experience, with the former focusing on developing project management skills in the private and public sectors, and the latter simulating accounting and finance environments.

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What you will study

Block 1: Accounting in the Business Environment

You’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of the business environment and how accounting fits within it. You’ll learn about the economic activities influencing organisational decisions and the numerical techniques to support them, while exploring ethics, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and the legal framework that underpins commercial activity.

Block 2: Accounting for Organisational Performance

This module will give you an appreciation of key accounting and business techniques, including future and present value. You’ll apply your knowledge of digital business information to enhance efficiency and improve organisational performance.

Block 3: Financial Accounting

You’ll gain an understanding of the core principles and concepts of financial accounting, including the preparation of basic financial statements.

Block 4: Management Accounting

You’ll learn fundamental management accounting techniques and understand their role within both commercial and public sector organisations, as well as their wider societal impact.

Block 1: Organisational Behaviour and Leadership

This module focuses on developing business and operating models to improve organisational performance. You’ll explore how leadership styles affect individual performance and how project management techniques can be applied to execute business strategies, with a focus on embedding sustainability.

Block 2: International Financial Reporting and Business Taxation

You’ll develop the ability to analyse financial statements, including group accounting, and gain an understanding of fiscal sustainability and the role of tax policy in supporting SDG goals.

Block 3: Digital Business and Data Analytics

This module helps you understand how digital technologies influence business and how data manipulation techniques can be applied to meet an organisation’s reporting needs in both the public and private sectors.

Block 4: Performance Management and Decision Making

You’ll apply management accounting techniques to quantitative and qualitative data for planning, decision-making, and performance evaluation, focusing on both public and private sectors and SDG-related goals.

Block 1: Strategic Management and Governance

This module introduces you to strategic management and the dynamics of the organisational ecosystem. Through a business simulation, you’ll explore how to implement strategy, achieve objectives, manage change, and utilise digital transformation strategies.

Block 2: Financial Strategy

You’ll learn how to support organisational leaders in formulating strategy, managing risks, valuing organisations, and sourcing financial resources to implement long-term strategies.

Block 3: Project Management for Sustainable Business or Accounting Simulation

Choose between project management, where you’ll apply techniques to manage business projects with a focus on sustainability, or an accounting simulation, where you’ll apply your knowledge and decision-making skills in real-world employment scenarios.

Block 4: Critical Risk Management

This technical module will teach you accounting techniques to evaluate and manage strategic risks, with a focus on governance. You’ll develop skills to identify, analyse, and report on risks critical to organisational success.

Note: All modules are indicative and based on the current academic session. Course information is correct at the time of publication and is subject to review. Exact modules may, therefore, vary for your intake in order to keep content current. If there are changes to your course we will, where reasonable, take steps to inform you as appropriate.

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Our facilities

You will be taught in our purpose-built Hugh Aston Building equipped with lecture theatres and classrooms, break-out spaces for group work, quiet study zones for individual work, and high-spec IT labs installed with professional software.

You’ll also have access to the building’s new £5.5 million extension called The Yard, which provides more than 22,000 square metres of extra space. This is designed to facilitate your learning experience with large and airy breakout spaces, a new Student Advice Centre, and a balcony on the top floor. The Yard also features more comfortable classrooms and self-study spaces, allowing you to carry out independent study as well as group work.

The Trading Floor

Âéw¶¹´«Ã½’s Trading Floor is a revolutionary space that has been thoughtfully designed to empower the next generation of finance professionals. These impressive facilities provide our students across Leicester Castle Business School’s undergraduate and postgraduate Accounting, Economics and Finance courses with an authentic simulation of financial trading and investing, equipping them with the knowledge and skills required to succeed in the world of work. Find out more about the Trading Floor.

Accreditations, awards or memberships

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The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

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Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

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The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)

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The Certified Practicing Accountants Australia (CPA)

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The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

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The Association of International Accountants (AIA)

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What makes us special

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Âéw¶¹´«Ã½ Global

Our innovative international experience programme Âéw¶¹´«Ã½ Global aims to enrich studies, broaden cultural horizons and develop key skills valued by employers.

Through , we offer an exciting mix of overseas, on-campus and online international experiences, including the opportunity to study or work abroad for up to a year.

Through Âéw¶¹´«Ã½ Global, Accounting and Business Management students explored and exchanged knowledge with institutions, organisations and individuals in Berlin who are working together to support refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.

Where we could take you

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Graduate careers

A degree in Accounting with Business Management opens a wide range of career opportunities as you develop a broad base of skills that are in great demand with employers.

You may choose to specialise in a discipline that you enjoyed studying on the programme such as management, business or accounting.

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Placements

During this course you will have the option to complete a paid placement year, an invaluable opportunity to put the skills developed during your degree into practice. This insight into the professional world will build on your knowledge in a real-world setting, preparing you to progress onto your chosen career.

Previous students have taken up placements in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, including some international posts, with leading companies such as Deloitte, Xerox, TNT, the NHS, VW, Microsoft, Bosch, IBM, Pfizer, HSBC, Siemens and Walt Disney.

Our award-winning Careers Team can help to hone your professional skills with mock interviews and practice aptitude tests, and an assigned personal tutor will support you throughout your placement.

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Course specifications

Course title

Accounting with Business Management

Award

BSc (Hons)

UCAS code

NN41

Institution code

D26

Study level

Undergraduate

Study mode

Full-time

Start date

September

Duration

Three years full-time, four years full-time with placement.

Fees

2025/26 UK tuition fees:
£9,535*

*subject to the government, as is expected, passing legislation to formalise the increase.

Entry requirements

GCSEs

  • Five GCSEs at grade 4 or above including English and Maths

Plus one of the following:

A levels

  • A typical offer is 112 UCAS points. You need to study at least two subjects at A Level or equivalent (e.g. BTEC)

T Levels

  • Merit

BTEC

  • BTEC National Diploma - Distinction/Distinction/Merit
  • BTEC Extended Diploma - Distinction/Distinction/Merit

Alternative qualifications include:

  • Pass in the QAA accredited Access to HE overall 112 UCAS tariff with at least 30 L3 credits at Merit.
  • English and Maths GCSE required as separate qualification. Equivalency not accepted within the Access qualification. We will normally require students to have had a break from full-time education before undertaking the Access course.
  • International Baccalaureate: 26+ points.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language, an IELTS score of 6.0 overall with 5.5 in each band (or equivalent) when you start the course is essential.

English language tuition, delivered by our British Council-accredited Centre for English Language Learning, is available both before and throughout the course if you need it.

UCAS tariff information

Students applying for courses starting in September will be made offers based on the latest UCAS Tariff.

Mature students

We welcome applications from mature students with non-standard qualifications and recognise all other equivalent and international qualifications.

Contextual offer

To make sure you get fair and equal access to higher education, when looking at your application, we consider more than just your grades. So if you are eligible, you may receive a contextual offer. Find our more about contextual offers.