Programme title
Accounting and Finance

Qualifications
Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance

Exit qualifications
• Diploma of Higher Education
• Certificate of Higher Education

An exit qualification is an intermediate qualification, for which the student may not have registered at the outset but which may be awarded on completion of specific modules/courses (or credit accumulated) in a longer programme of study, if the student leaves the programme or has their registration ceased. Exit qualifications are awarded at the discretion of the Board of Examiners and once a student has accepted an exit qualification they will not normally be permitted to continue their study of the same award with the University of London.These exit qualifications are unnamed.
 

Individual courses
There is no provision for individual courses of the programme to be studied on a stand-alone basis.
Notes
The BSc degree in Accounting and Finance is available through a 12 course (360 credits).Standard Route and a 9 course (270 credits) Graduate Entry Route.

Programme structures

• For degrees through the Standard Route – a student must have attempted 360 credits and must have passed with a mark of 40 or above in at least 330 credits.
• For degrees through the Graduate Entry Route – a student must have attempted and passed, with a mark of 40 or above in at least 270 credits.

Maximum and minimum periods of registration
The maximum and minimum period of registration, from a student’s effective date of registration, are:

                                                           Minimum                   Maximum
BSc (Standard Route)                        Three years*             Six years
BSc (Graduate Entry Route)              Two years                  Six years
*This period may vary if recognition of prior learning is permitted

General Entrance requirements for undergraduate degrees
Age:   Applicants must normally be at least 17 years of age on or before 30 November in the year of initial registration.

Qualifications: Applicants must
• have passed qualifications that satisfy category G in the Qualifications for Entrance schedule;
• meet any additional programme specific entrance requirements; and • satisfy English language requirements.
 

Entrance requirements for the Graduate Entry Routes to the undergraduate degrees
Age: Applicants must normally be at least 17 years of age on or before 30 November in the year of initial registration.

Qualifications: Applicants must
• have successfully completed a full undergraduate degree or postgraduate qualification from an acceptable institution;
• meet any additional programme specific entrance requirements; and
• satisfy English language requirements

Applicants with professional qualifications and professional memberships will be considered on an individual basis.

BSc Accounting and Finance

This programme aims to set accounting and finance in a broader social science framework in order to:
• provide an undergraduate education at the forefront of the international field in the study of the theory and practice of financial management, control and accountability in organisations;
• situate the study of accounting and finance in some of the various contexts within which accounting and finance professionals play a key role;
• develop in students an understanding that not only is accounting and finance as a discipline concerned with computational skill but, more importantly, it is central to the way in which both management internally, and also various stakeholders externally (including investors, lenders, customers, the government and the public) perceive, understand, and seek to change and control the nature of organisations and the ways in which resources are allocated to and by them;
• foster in students a critical and flexible approach to accounting and finance issues, within a UK and international context;
• prepare students for challenging careers in accounting and finance and related sectors, as well as for higher degrees/research.

Knowledge and understanding

A student will be able to:
• communicate knowledge and understanding of, and appropriate ability to use and critically evaluate, current and major alternative technical languages and practices of accounting, together with appropriate ability to apply them;
• record and summarise financial data and prepare financial statements;
• manipulate financial and other numerical data and appropriate understanding of and ability to apply mathematical and statistical concepts;
• communicate and apply knowledge and understanding of the principles of business information systems management at an appropriate level;
• analyse business activities and perform financial analyses and projections in appropriate contexts of planning, decision making and control at an appropriate level; and to recognise the limitations of these techniques;
• communicate knowledge and understanding of financial management, risk and the operation of financial markets at an appropriate level, based on critical evaluation of theories and empirical evidence.

Intellectual and cognitive skills;
A student will be able to:
• locate, extract, analyse and draw reasoned conclusions from multiple sources (including electronic sources) of appropriate literature and relevant data and acknowledge and reference sources appropriately;
• critically analyse arguments;
• assimilate and lucidly evaluate alternative views.

Transferable skills;
A student will be able to:
• communicate effectively in a written context;
• use information technology (spreadsheets, word-processing and online databases) appropriately;
• organise information, and to assimilate and evaluate competing arguments;
• manage their own learning, including working effectively to deadlines;
• be open minded and have a capacity to handle ideas and scrutinise information in critical, evaluative and analytical ways.

FEE STRUCTURE

Students are also required to pay the following to the University of London 2025-2026:

Please note:

• all student fees shown are net of any local VAT, Goods and Services Tax (GST) or any other sales tax payable by the student in their country of residence. Where the University is required to add VAT, GST or any other sales tax at the local statutory rate, this will be added to the fees shown during the payment process.
• UOL fee must be paid in pounds sterling, which may be paid either by a credit card or debit card recognized by MasterCard International or by the VISA group or by banker’s draft or postal order, made payable to “The University of London”.
• *UOL fee are subject to revision

• Assessment re-entry fee per course

  £434

Fee payable to British Council: EXAMINATION CENTRE FEE:
POUND 85 per paper. (Subject to change)

For more Details regarding University of London please visit Fee Details

Career Opportunities

• Financial Analyst
• Financial Manager
• Chartered Accountant
• Financial Adviser
• Actuary
• Stockbroker
• Public Accountant
• Corporate Accountant
• Auditor
• Investment Banker