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Want to qualify faster and earn more? Choose BSc (Hons) Accounting at Hull and we’ll help you get one step ahead. Here’s how...
Our accountancy accreditations give you significant exemptions from essential exams. This means a faster route to professional qualifications, because you graduate already part qualified – and you could start on a higher salary.
You’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of global accounting, taught by staff with real-world experience. And you’ll put what you learn into practice through live business projects, plus an optional placement year or a year studying abroad.
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About this course
As well as our three-year course, you can choose one of our four-year options with either a built-in placement year - or a year studying abroad. But whichever course you choose, you’re guaranteed CV-boosting opportunities. Placements, internships, networking, mentoring, international summer schools - they’re all part of what we call Authentic Business Learning, our real-life, hands-on, hard-working approach to teaching.
All Hull University Business School courses are accredited by AACSB, which is held by fewer than 5% of business programmes worldwide. And we’re accredited by the main accountancy bodies: ACCA (also as an Accelerate Partner), CIMA (as a University Partner), CIPFA, ICAEW (as a Partner in Learning) AIA, CFA and CPA Australia.
Throughout your course, you have access to industry-standard facilities like our Bloomberg Financial Markets Laboratory. Here, you practise trading in real time using databases like Bloomberg, Orbis and FAME. Then there’s our newly-enhanced Business Lounge - a great space for you to meet with businesses, entrepreneurs and partners, laying the foundations for your future career.
Together, we can make the world add up
Module options
Each year, you’ll study modules worth a certain number of credits, and you need 120 credits per year. Most modules are 20 credits – so you’ll study six modules each year. Some longer modules, such as a dissertation, are worth more. In these cases, you’ll study fewer modules - but the number of credits will always add up to 120. Some modules are compulsory, some are optional, so you can build a course that’s right for you.
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Accounting and Finance
Delve into topics such as financing decisions, cost behaviour, cost-volume-profit analysis, absorption costing, variance analysis and budgeting.
compulsory
20 credits
Developing Self & Others
Assessing your human skills and developing good habits is central to your professional development. This module allows you to gain a better understanding of what is needed from the wider business perspective and apply theories of positive habit development in practice.
compulsory
20 credits
Introduction to Economics
This introduction covers both microeconomics (the affairs of individual consumers, firms and government) and macroeconomics (the study of the economy as a whole).
compulsory
20 credits
Financial Accounting
This module will provide you with introductory accounting knowledge covering basic double entry book-keeping, analysis and preparing a simple set of financial statements.
compulsory
20 credits
Introduction to Finance
This module introduces you to the finance discipline. You'll explore the basic principles of finance, complemented with an analysis of case studies and examples from the finance news. There will be a special emphasis on ethical and sustainable finance.
compulsory
20 credits
Marketing
Marketing is an exciting, dynamic, and creative environment to work in. It places brands in the consumers' mind and shapes their decisions. Marketing is a critical management function that is essential to business success. This module allows you to work with a real business on a live marketing project based on a real-life challenge.
compulsory
20 credits
Financial Reporting
This module covers the regulatory aspects of financial reporting. It will enable you to understand and evaluate financial statements according to international accounting standards.
compulsory
20 credits
Financial Management
Explore the operational activities responsible for obtaining and utilising the funds for efficient operations. This module will expose you to a wide range of important financial management tools, techniques, and underpinning theories relevant for decision-making in today's competitive financial environment.
compulsory
20 credits
Information Systems in Accounting and Finance
In today’s highly competitive business environment, information is power – especially financial information. This module offers a broad insight into the role of accounting information systems and emerging technologies within the competitive business environment and explores how managers of business organisations use financial information to convey financial stability and performance.
compulsory
20 credits
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Our academics
We bring our passion, knowledge and real-world experience into everything you learn.
It's a testament to the quality of our teaching that 95.2% of our BSc Accounting students are in work or further study within 15 months of graduating.1 You can't get much better than that.
Dr Mohamed Khalil
Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
Mohamed teaches on several of our courses and is programme director for our BSc Accounting and Financial Management degree. He previously taught at Tanta University in Egypt and is a reviewer for several journals.
Dr Yawen Hudson
Lecturer in Accounting and Finance
Yawen is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) who has worked in a variety of accounting roles for both local and international firms. Previously, she worked as a senior lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University.
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Future prospects
As part of our BSc Accounting degree, you get the opportunity to study for a CIMA qualification. You can also register for the ACCA Future Talent Academy: an employability platform full of useful content, activities and advice. And you’ll get access to our Centre for Professional Success, which can help you source relevant placements and employer projects.
Most of our students aim to become chartered accountants, but there are a whole range of employment possibilities open to you. Recent graduates have found work with companies including Citibank, Lloyds Banking Group, Fujitsu, Jaguar Land Rover, Smith & Nephew, the Civil Service, and the ‘Big Four’: Ernst & Young, Deloitte, PwC and KPMG.
Become part of the next generation of futuremakers
Like what you've seen? Then it's time to apply.
The standard way is to apply through UCAS. This will give you the chance to showcase your skills qualities and passion for the subject, as well as providing us with your academic qualifications.
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Visit our next Open Day, and see all that Hull has to offer for yourself. Talk to our lecturers about your subject, find out what university is really like from our current students, and take a tour of our beautiful campus and amazing facilities.
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95.2% employability (Accounting, Finance and Economics) UK domicile full-time first degree leavers; Higher Education Graduate Outcomes statistics, for the academic year 2021/22, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency June 2024.
Our accredited degree offers exemptions from the professional exams of all of the major accountancy organisations: ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA, ICAEW, AIA, CFA and CPA Australia.
Accounting: Ranked 6th in the UK for learning resources. National Student Survey (NSS) 2025, HEIs only.
All modules presented on this course page are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.