Bachelor of Science - Accounting and Finance (Honours)

BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance delivers the professional-track curriculum across three years: financial accounting and reporting, management accounting, taxation, audit and assurance, corporate finance, and financial management, supported by quantitative methods and business law. The syllabus is written against the professional bodies’ frameworks, and DMU’s accounting degrees have historically carried exemption arrangements that shorten the ACCA and CIMA exam journey — the current exemption map should be verified with the university at offer stage.

Practical work threads through every level — students prepare full sets of accounts, build budgeting and variance models in Excel, and work audit case files that mirror real engagement documentation. Final-year options let students tilt toward audit, tax or corporate finance, and the faculty’s employer programme brings regional practice firms onto campus each autumn for recruitment presentations timed to trainee-intake deadlines.

Module sequencing rewards early commitment here: the professional-body exemption map depends on which final-year options a student selects, so the accounting pathway meeting in year two — easily skipped — is where exemption value is actually decided. Leicester’s cost base helps the professional-exam budget too, since ACCA registration and paper fees add several hundred pounds a year that London living costs would otherwise crowd out of a student budget.

Career prospects are among the steadiest in the business faculty because every organisation needs accountants: trainee roles across the Midlands start near £22,000–£26,000, rising sharply with exam progress, and the profession recruits year-round rather than only through autumn schemes. A completed UK honours degree carries Graduate Route eligibility — realistically the 18-month post-2027 allowance for anyone enrolling now — and the taught student route excludes dependants, a point to settle early with married applicants.