Accounting and Finance / Economics

Accounting and finance combined with economics provides a grounding in both the technical practice of financial management and the theoretical understanding of how markets, firms, and economies work. Accounting develops your ability to record, interpret, and communicate financial information, while finance applies that to the valuation of assets and the management of capital. Economics supplies the broader analytical framework, examining how choice, incentives, and institutions shape the production, distribution, and consumption of resources at both the individual and the macroeconomic level.

At Aberystwyth this three-year full-time programme focuses on the practical application of economic ideas, knowledge, and methods within professional decision-making contexts. You will study microeconomics and macroeconomics alongside accounting principles, financial markets, and investment analysis, developing both the technical competencies and the analytical habits of mind that employers in finance and business value. The combination of subjects gives you flexibility for your future, opening a wider range of career paths than either discipline would provide alone, and the programme's applied orientation ensures that your learning is consistently connected to real-world professional practice.

Graduates from this combination go on to careers in accounting, financial analysis, investment banking, corporate finance, economic consulting, the civil service, and many other roles in business and the public sector. The professional accounting bodies offer examinations leading to chartered status, and the accounting component of the degree typically provides exemptions from some of those examinations, accelerating your route to qualification. Many graduates also pursue postgraduate study in accounting, finance, economics, or related fields.

The breadth of the combined degree makes it a flexible and valuable qualification across a wide range of career directions.