Welcome to the BSc (Hons) Business Accounting
Degree is tailored so that students receive a number of exemptions from the professional body examinations including the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
Overview
As a business accounting student at MDX, you can enhance your skills and employability prospects by supporting local businesses through our department's tax and accounting clinic.
Why choose Business Accounting BA at Middlesex?
At Middlesex, you'll develop the skills to work in any industry – locally, nationally or globally. With access to industry-standard software and paid work placements.
Our Business School brings people together to create and share knowledge and experience.
Our Accounting and Finance department have won two awards from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), one of our accreditation partners, recently. In 2022 we won the CIMA Campus Culture Excellence Award (Global Champion) for actively promoting employer involvement and engagement between students and industry partners, and the previous year we won the CIMA Employability Award.
What you will gain
We have strong internship and industry links with local and international businesses.
Each year, many students gain placements and internships with accredited employers including NHS Finance, Barnet Accounting & Finance Enterprises.
Students can access software supported by Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg to complement classroom-based study.
Middlesex was the first university in the UK to provide certificated ACCA Sage Cloud Business Accounting training course. As extra-curriculum activity, you have the opportunity to learn to use the new Sage Cloud accounting app and gain an official ACCA Sage user's certificate. In addition, you can also study Sage Payroll course if you intend to specialise in this area. The flexible learning plan offered on Sage courses means you can fit this study into your busy schedule.
You can relax and make friends at our weekly accounting social club. Some lifelong friendships begin at the University.
We have 145 years of experience delivering professional, creative and technical education that prepares students – like you – for success in global careers.
3 great reasons to pick this course
- 85% secure employment or further studies
Those who studied BSc Business Accounting were in employment or carrying out further studies within 15 months of graduating (Discover Uni 2023)
- Our graduate destinations speak for themselves
We are proud to see many of our graduates securing financial management and business roles at a range of organisations, including Barclays, RBS, Santander and Western Union
- Access industry-standard software
Enhance your employability prospects through practical learning with software commonly utilised in the workplace, including Xero, Sage, OneSource and our state-of-the-art Financial Markets Lab
Overview
As a business accounting student at MDX, you can enhance your skills and employability prospects by supporting local businesses through our department's tax and accounting clinic.
Why choose Business Accounting BA at Middlesex?
At Middlesex, you'll develop the skills to work in any industry – locally, nationally or globally. With access to industry-standard software and paid work placements.
Our Business School brings people together to create and share knowledge and experience.
Our Accounting and Finance department have won two awards from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), one of our accreditation partners, recently. In 2022 we won the CIMA Campus Culture Excellence Award (Global Champion) for actively promoting employer involvement and engagement between students and industry partners, and the previous year we won the CIMA Employability Award.
What you will gain
We have strong internship and industry links with local and international businesses.
Each year, many students gain placements and internships with accredited employers including NHS Finance, Barnet Accounting & Finance Enterprises.
Students can access software supported by Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg to complement classroom-based study.
Middlesex was the first university in the UK to provide certificated ACCA Sage Cloud Business Accounting training course. As extra-curriculum activity, you have the opportunity to learn to use the new Sage Cloud accounting app and gain an official ACCA Sage user's certificate. In addition, you can also study Sage Payroll course if you intend to specialise in this area. The flexible learning plan offered on Sage courses means you can fit this study into your busy schedule.
You can relax and make friends at our weekly accounting social club. Some lifelong friendships begin at the University.
We have 145 years of experience delivering professional, creative and technical education that prepares students – like you – for success in global careers.
3 great reasons to pick this course
- 85% secure employment or further studies
Those who studied BSc Business Accounting were in employment or carrying out further studies within 15 months of graduating (Discover Uni 2023)
- Our graduate destinations speak for themselves
We are proud to see many of our graduates securing financial management and business roles at a range of organisations, including Barclays, RBS, Santander and Western Union
- Access industry-standard software
Enhance your employability prospects through practical learning with software commonly utilised in the workplace, including Xero, Sage, OneSource and our state-of-the-art Financial Markets Lab
What you will learn
Our Business Accounting degree will cover key areas within financial and management accounting, project optimisation mechanisms and operations management. You'll have unlimited access to our business resources. This will give you the chance to gain a competitive edge when it comes to launching your career.
Our Business Accounting BSc will help you in many ways, for example:
- Our authentic methods of assessment will prepare you for the future world of work. For example, in our personal financial behaviour module, you will track your own personal finances, plan spending, introduce saving as well as look at the impact of borrowing and investing on your finances
- Develop advanced data analytics skills using Excel, which are key employability skills within banks and other financial institutions.
- This course includes the option to study part of your degree at our Middlesex Dubai campus
- Access resources directly from the professional body, courses include Digital Mindset, developing Fintech skills
- Benefit from our alumni-delivered technical update talks, stay connected with real-world debates and developments.
Career Option
Audit and assurance, taxation, insolvency and corporate finance; as well as working in other functional areas such as human resource management, sales and marketing, and operations, which require knowledge of accounting. You can also go on to further study on courses such as our MSc Investment Management and MSc Banking and Finance.
