The accountancy major aims to equip you with a set of skills that will enable you to respond in a professional way to the rapidly changing market outside the academic environment. The programme covers such areas as financial and management accountancy. The economics major adopts an applied and policy-based approach to the study of economics, emphasising its relevance to good resource management in the public and private sectors. Our programme examines the dynamics of the economic environment from the perspectives of alternative schools of thought, enabling you to understand its integrated nature and the important interdependencies between government policies and the behaviour of individuals and organisations. The opportunities and threats faced by management can be understood only if the manager can apply the techniques and analyses offered by financial theory and practice.
Finance is one of the main paths to senior management positions.
It continues to develop, for example, to reflect the immense impact of the globalisation of financial markets. Topics studied in the major include financial products and markets, strategic management accounting and international finance. Our students have a very good record of gaining employment after graduating. Recent employers include KPMG, Coopers and Lybrand, British Aerospace, and the Ministry of Defence.