Accountancy and Business Management

Accountancy and business management is a combination that prepares you both for the technical demands of the accounting profession and for the broader commercial and strategic challenges of business leadership. Accountancy provides rigorous training in financial measurement, reporting, auditing, taxation and the regulatory frameworks that govern how organisations present their financial position. Business management gives you the wider context: how organisations function, how decisions are made, how markets work and how effective leadership is exercised.

The two disciplines reinforce each other in ways that make graduates from this combination particularly well rounded.

At the University of Aberdeen, this four-year full-time programme is designed to provide a thorough grounding in both areas. You will study financial and management accounting, audit, taxation and financial reporting alongside strategy, marketing, finance, operations and organisational behaviour. Aberdeen's accountancy programme is structured to support professional exemptions, which can reduce the number of examinations required for qualification with major professional accounting bodies after graduation.

A year abroad is available, giving you the opportunity to develop an international perspective on business and accounting practice that is valuable in an increasingly global profession.

You will develop strong analytical, numerical and communication skills throughout the degree, alongside the capacity for careful, evidence-based professional judgement that accounting and management both demand.

Graduates move into chartered accountancy, audit, management accounting, financial management, taxation, corporate finance, and a wide range of general management and commercial roles. Aberdeen's reputation in business and its connection to the oil and gas, energy, fishing and rural industries of north Scotland gives the degree distinctive regional and industry connections alongside its broader commercial value. Postgraduate study in accounting, finance, business or law is a natural pathway for those who want to specialise further.