Bachelors in Economics and Accounting

Sheffield Hallam University is ranked in the top 5% of business schools globally. It is accredited with the aid of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), setting it in the top 5% of business colleges globally. Moreover, it is also accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), and the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW). Students will be able to obtain a broad expertise of accounting and economics in the business dynamics of the continually changing global economy. Students will undertake a twelve months non-obligatory paid work placement. Over 90% of graduates gets steady jobs with the high succession rate. 

This course will assist students to broaden a broad understanding of accounting and economics but it offers an opportunity to specialize in accounting or economics in their last year. Learning, teaching and assessment activities encourage students to expand key capabilities which includes problem solving, numeracy, IT skills, in addition to a deep and vital expertise of the programming and are designed to foster those employability attributes (for example, reflection on getting to know, personal improvement planning, interpersonal verbal exchange talents) identified as critical in contemporary modern organizations. All modules make a great contribution to the employability pathway via offering students with an actual lifestyles context to the topics they cowl and with the aid of requiring them to use such abilities as unbiased research, teamwork and presentations. This is performed by using case studies, real existence examples and scenarios, which shapes the spine of the employability policy by engaging students to observe and assess business sectors and at the identical time developing key graduate skills together with academic, critical thinking, personal development and time management.

There are specific employability modules recognized at every level, which allow you to gain a great understanding of the roles to be had to you. They help you recognize a way to move about looking and making use of for such roles, and culminating in the final year with a consultancy venture that allows each student to demonstrate their important and problem solving capabilities and the possibility to be creative and innovative. Previous students have received placements with organizations together with Astra Zeneca, GE Capital IBM, the Metropolitan Police and Oxford Economics. We have an incredible employment file with over 90% of our graduates on associated accounting and economics publications securing jobs or happening to enroll in advance learning within six months of graduation. The learning incorporates real existence context to the subjects students will cover where viable through requiring students to use such abilities as unbiased research, teamwork and presentations. The accounting degree is especially designed in consultation with the main expert accountancy bodies.