BA Accounting and Management with Placement Year

at Durham University Business School

Year 1
 

In the first year you will study six compulsory modules which are:

• Introduction to Financial Accounting

• Introduction to Management Accounting

• Business Environment and Functions

• Foundations of Finance

• Introduction to Economics

• Quantitative Methods.
   

Year 2
 

The second year consists of four compulsory modules:

• Auditing and Assurance

• Corporate Finance

• Corporate Financial Reporting

• Management Accounting.
   

Plus two optional modules selected from a range which have previously included:

• Managing in a Global Environment

• Principles of Business Law

• Introduction to Taxation

• Entrepreneurship

• A foreign language.
   

Year 3

All of our degrees offer you the option of spending your third year gaining practical experience on a placement. Placement years are a great way to develop your employment marketability and to engage with employers early in their recruitment pipeline. A placement requires a minimum of 40 weeks of work experience and the placement begins in the summer following completion of the second year, and this then becomes the third year of a four-year degree programme. This allows you to really explore and understand your job and to find out if the career or company is for you.
 

• You will develop your practical skills, confidence and maturity.

• You can focus on a specific career path – many employers recruit graduates from their placement programme.

• You will be able to contextualise your studies better, be more mature in your attitude to work.

• You may decide to draw on your working experiences and access a more fulfilling dissertation research subject.

• You will gain invaluable job search and graduate research skills by engaging in the competitive placement recruitment process.
   

To ensure you are getting the most out of your experience, we support your placement in a number of ways:

• First Year Workshops and Bootcamps tohelp you to develop your Placement Strategy and to identify and develop those skills and competencies that will be critical to ensure you are attractive to potential placement employers. These typically involve Employers, Placement Mentors and representatives from Colleges, Societies and the Volunteering Community in Durham.
• Second Year Workshops and Bootcamps support you through the placement application process and allow you to develop into a supportive student group to travel along the road of gaining a placement together. They enable you to get to know those students who will return with you in the fourth year. Workshops typically involve employers, and former placement students.
• The DUBS Placement Programme includes a series of employer-led events which take place throughout term 1 and 2 and is open to all first year and second year placement students. The skills sessions and networking events allow students to develop essential employability skills as well as providing valuable insight into the recruitment process.
• Placement Mentors: We have a mentorship scheme whereby former placement students share their experiences of the application process and placement with first and second year students and those out on placement. If you become a placement mentor on your return to University you can continue to develop your interpersonal skills and slide back into your University life with another key role which may well develop a new sense of belonging as well as another valuable contribution to your CV.
• Placement Tutors: Whilst you are on placement you are assigned an academic tutor who will visit you, liaise with your employer and ensure you gain the most from your experience.
• The Placement Year fees are set annually by the University. For the definitive amount of the Placement Year tuition fee payable please contact our Placement Team.
• *The offer of a place on a ‘with Placement Year’ degree does not imply that Durham University Business School guarantees to find the student a placement. The Business School, in association with the University, will assist students in finding and applying for placements, but it is the responsibility of the student to apply for and to obtain a placement (which is subject to approval by the Business School). In the event that a student is unable to obtain a placement, transfer to the equivalent ‘non-placement’ programme is guaranteed provided the student is eligible to transfer on academic grounds. Due to visa requirements, we recommend that international students interested in the Placement Year as part of their degree apply for this programme when making their application to us via UCAS. This will prevent students having to change their visa in situ at University, and avoid the fee of a new visa.
   

Year 4
 

Moving to a more research-led teaching orientation in the fourth year, you are required to produce a double module Dissertation in an area of accounting and management. Additionally, you will study three compulsory modules exploring:

• Contemporary Issues in Accounting

• Contemporary Issues in Management Research

• Financial Planning and Control.
   

And choose one module from a selection which in previous years have included, for example:

• Corporate Governance

• Strategic Management

• Corporate Responsibility

• Islamic Economics and Finance

• A foreign language.

A strong proficiency in Mathematics is required. If not taken as an A level, a grade 7 (or grade A) in Mathematics at GCSE is required. We welcome the Core Mathematics Qualification and accept a grade 5 minimum (or grade B) in lieu of our GCSE Mathematics requirement.
 

A level offer – AAB.
 

BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma/OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma – DDD.
 

IB Diploma score – 36 with 665 in higher level subjects. If Mathematics is not taken at higher level, then it is required at standard level 5.
 

In addition to satisfying the University’s general entry requirements, please note:

• We consider each application holistically, on an individual basis and against the other applications we receive. Whilst academic achievement is important, it is not the only factor that we consider when assessing applications and applicants who have achieved, or are predicted to achieve, close to our typical offer, but who have not met it exactly, will be welcome to apply if they have a strong application in other key elements, for example if they can demonstrate merit and potential through their personal statement or their reference.

• We welcome applications from those with other qualifications equivalent to our standard entry requirements and from mature students with non-standard qualifications, please email us for more information.

• We are willing to consider applications for deferred entry from those who have well- structured plans for work or travel, for example. We may, however, need to restrict the number of deferred entry offers we make because we have to be careful not to fill too many of next year’s places in advance. However, if you do apply for a deferred place and are unsuccessful, you are welcome to reapply the following year.

• You are welcome to apply if you are taking resits; we do not make higher offers to students who declare resits.

Full Time Fees

Tuition fees
 

• Home students    £9,250 per year
• EU students    £24,500 per year
• Island students    £9,250 per year
• International students    £24,500 per year

Business School (School of Economics, Finance and Business)
 

Of those students who graduated in 2018:

• 92% are in paid employment or further study 15 months after graduation across all our programmes
   

Of those in employment:

• 87% are in a professional or managerial job

• Average salary of £30,000.