Accounting

If you would love to study Accounting here at Leicester, but don’t quite have the entry requirements, this Foundation Year degree is your path to making it happen. The browser you are using is no longer supported and for that reason you will not get the best experience when using our website. If you would love to study Accounting here at Leicester, but don’t quite have the entry requirements, this Foundation Year degree is your path to making it happen.

Our BSc in Accounting will provide you with a solid, practical foundation and relevant, technical and intellectual competence in accounting and related forms of financial expertise. You will learn the skills, expertise and analytical competence necessary for working as an accountant in the accountancy profession, in industry or in the public sector. You will develop quantitative, communications and information technology skills and the ability to apply these in an accounting context.

You will learn how accountants work with managers, shareholders and a wide range of other stakeholders in a variety of different organisations and help them make informed decisions. Our accounting degrees offer you the opportunity to gain exemptions from the accounting and management accounting professional bodies, ACCA , CIMA , ICAEW and ICAS , dependent on satisfactory completion of certain modules. In the first year of this course you will be working towards passing a foundation year (year 0), which will enable automatic progression onto year one of BSc in Accounting.