Business and Management: Accounting

Why study Business and Management: Accounting?

Business and Management at Bath Spa University can offer:

• Friendly and supportive academics
• Great learning environment
• Close knit student community
• Choice of work placement length: 10 month or 10 week
• Very strong student satisfaction scores

Course structure

Year 1 ensures you have a broad and grounded knowledge of business today, giving a platform to develop specialised knowledge as you progress through the course. You'll explore how organisations work, how they are managed and how they interact with the business environment.  You'll gain an understanding of economic thinking.  You'll develop management skills in gathering and assessing information and data, in making and communicating decisions and in evaluating their effect. 

In Year 2 you will specialise in financial accounting as well as learning about the functions of a business and how these interrelate. You’ll start to form opinions about how businesses manage the challenges that are presented to them on a daily basis. You'll have the opportunity to work on projects and to use business techniques to solve problems, and you’ll start to develop your employability skills before seeking a placement at the end of this study year.

At the end of Year 2 you have the option to choose a ten month placement or a shorter ten week placement in an accounting business.  This is an invaluable chance to apply your accounting knowledge and business skills in the real world, making you even more attractive to employers.

In your final year, when you finish your placement, you'll practice, develop, challenge and explore all your business learning, and examine management as an integrating activity.  In your accounting-related dissertation you'll explore in depth a topic related to accounting that really interests you. You’ll also have the opportunity to work individually or with colleagues to develop and set up a business.

Modules

There's an exciting range of modules on offer.  Some of our modules are compulsory but most are optional and will allow you to pursue areas of interest.  

Year 1

• Organisations and the Business Environment*
• Economics and Globalisation*
• Managing Data*

Year 2

• Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace*
• Financial Accounting*
• Human Resource Management
• The Marketing Business
• Information and Operations Management
• Reasoning with Research: Social Sciences Research Methods
• Destination Management 
• Work Placement - 10 weeks or 10 months work placement taking place at the end of year 2 (this will count as one of your final year modules)

Final Study Year: Year 3/Year 4

• Accounting Research Project *
• Management Accounting*
• Marketing for Managers
• Strategic Human Resource Management
• Managing Sustainability
• Business Strategy
• International Business
• New Trends in Management
• Enterprise: Creating and Developing your Business
• Tourism: Contemporary Issues