Accounting and Management with Year Abroad

Accounting and management are two disciplines that naturally reinforce each other in professional contexts. Accounting provides the rigorous financial framework through which organisations understand their resources, obligations, and performance. Management gives you the broader organisational context: how firms are led, how strategy is developed, how people and operations are coordinated, and how decisions are made in complex environments.

Combining them gives you both the financial literacy that is essential for informed management and the general organisational understanding that makes accounting knowledge genuinely useful.

At Reading you will study both disciplines across four years, building a solid grounding in financial and management accounting, corporate finance, auditing, and management theory alongside subjects including strategy, marketing, organisational behaviour, and operations. The programme includes a year abroad, giving you the opportunity to study at a partner university in another country and to develop the international perspective that is increasingly important in careers in accounting and management. This international dimension adds real value to a degree in fields where multinational organisations, cross-border transactions, and global regulatory frameworks are everyday realities.

Graduates are well placed for careers in accountancy, financial management, business management, consultancy, banking, and the public sector. The degree provides strong preparation for the professional examinations of the major accounting bodies, whose qualifications many graduates pursue alongside or after their degree. Others move directly into graduate management schemes or financial roles across a wide range of sectors.

Postgraduate study in accounting, finance, or an MBA is also a natural route for those wanting to develop further.