Accounting and Finance with Foundation Year BA (Hons)

University of Keele

Foundation Year

Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.

International Students

Accounting and Finance

Organisations need individuals with excellent accounting and finance expertise to power their business growth and support everyday activity. Our Accounting and Finance BSc will develop the essential skills and knowledge to open the doors to a dynamic career in accountancy, finance, or management in a variety of global industries.

Why choose this course?

• This programme is accredited ACCA, CIMA and CIPFA
• No. 1 in the UK. Britain's best university, ranked by students (Student Crowd University Awards, 2022)
• Opportunities to spend a year working in industry, undertake an entrepreneurship year and to study abroad
• Access to industry-leading software such as Bloomberg, STATA, and Thomson Reuters
• Learn from highly respected academics and knowledgeable practitioners

Studying accounting and finance is much more than learning to keep a check on the numbers, it is also about developing your analytical and communication competencies, your understanding of finance strategy, and your overall knowledge of business. These are desirable transferable skills that employers look for in graduates, and you will use them in your future career to support and influence the business performance of your future employer.

Our Accounting and Finance BSc curriculum has been created to provide a strong grounding in both subject areas, whilst giving you the flexibility - through a choice of optional modules - to tailor your studies depending on your career aspirations, strengths, or interests.

About Keele

Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university.

We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level.

Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

Accredited by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) for the purpose of exemption from some professional examinations.

Accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) for the purpose of exemptions from some professional examinations.

Accredited by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) for the purpose of exemption from some professional examinations through the Accredited degree accelerated route.