Monica's Blog #4

Accountancy, Business Management (ABM)

K-12 Curriculum

This is a flexible course allowing you to study the fundamentals of accounting and business management with the option to then focus more deeply in either field. This course will prepare you for a career in management accountancy, management consultancy and business management.

If you choose to specialise in business management, you'll graduate ready for a business career with accountancy skills alongside. Over 50% of FTSE 100 CEOs are business leaders with a finance background such as this. You’ll study financial and management accounting alongside the legal, business, and organisational contexts within which they operate. You’ll then deepen your business knowledge with options to study HR, international business, entrepreneurship, marketing and more.

If you choose to specialise in accountancy, you can graduate as a 'part qualified' accountant but with a deep appreciation of its wider business context. You will study in line with professional practice requirements and so maximise the number of accreditations and exemptions you will have upon graduation. Your degree will be accredited with the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW), the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Association of International Accountants (AIA).

As with business, you’ll study financial and management accounting alongside the legal, business, and organisational contexts within which they work. You’ll then deepen your accounting knowledge with study options, including taxation, auditing, strategy, and contemporary issues such as social & environmental.

All students will have the chance to work on a finance or business project and enter the CIMA Global Business Challenge and compete with undergraduates around the world.

You’ll also follow your own business engagement programme which will give you first hand participation in live accounting or business environments. We call this 'Make it' and it is unique to the University of Gloucestershire.

-- http://www.glos.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/abm/pages/accounting-and-business-management-ba-hons.aspx