Course summary
Overview Modern accountancy isn't all about number crunching and spreadsheets. As an accountant you need to be able to understand, visualise and present financial data to ensure businesses make the right decisions. You'll be at the heart of the business, analysing performance and informing strategy. This degree focuses on modern accountancy skills as well as general business. You'll learn to inform and persuade using numbers. You'll work in small groups that replicate the workplace, with a focus on teamwork, real world case studies and developing strategy from financial data. From your second year you'll be able to tailor your learning to your area of specialist interest, choosing your modules to focus on:
- professional modules: take the fastest route to becoming an ACCA chartered accountant
- finance modules: your best preparation route for working in banking or investment management
- analytics modules: combine accounting with data analysis, including data cleaning, visualisation and modelling
- Be taught by professionally qualified accountants who have industry experience with companies such as KPMG, Deloitte and HSBC
- Get on the fast track to becoming a chartered accountant through our accredited exemptions from professional exams with 4 global accounting bodies
- Be employment-ready by using industry-standard software and databases such as Oracle, SAP, Sage and S&P Capital IQ
- Choose options in business analytics to develop the skills that modern accounting needs
- Benefit from the opportunity to gain additional certifications, for example the ACCA Data Analytics Certificate
- Gain a Bloomberg Certificate (a trading platform that's used by 250,000 financial service professionals) in our dedicated Bloomberg Suite
- Apply your learning by helping student entrepreneurs and local charities such as Age Concern and The Rowans Hospice with their finances
- Deloitte
- PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
- Menzies LLP
- HWB Accountants
- EY Global (Ernst & Young)
- JPP Financial
- Barclays
- Lockheed Martin UK
- Lloyds Register
- J P Morgan
- accountant
- auditor
- finance analyst
- financial consultant
- investment broker
- tax analyst
Modules
Year 1 Core modules in this year include:
- Economics
- Essentials of Financial Accounting
- Introduction to Finance For Accountants
- Organisations and Accounting
- Toolbox For Accounting Professionals
- Introduction to Data Analytics
- Critical Issues in Accounting and Finance
- Financial Management
- Financial Reporting
- Management Accounting
- Accounting in the Community (Level 5)
- Bloomberg L5
- Professional Development - Level 5
- Business Analytics
- Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets
- Investment Analysis
- Modern Foreign Language
- Managerial and Decision Economics
- Business Law
- Taxation
- Advanced Financial Reporting
- Advanced Global Financial Management
- Strategic Management Accounting
- Accounting in the Community
- Bloomberg
- Professional Development
- Advanced Business Analytics
- Behavioural Finance and the Psychology of Investment
- Economics and Finance of Sport
- Strategic Management
- Dissertation
- Financial Investment Project
- Independent Study Project
- Professional Accounting Practice
- Auditing
Assessment method
You'll be assessed through:
- analysis of topical case studies
- written reports
- essays
- examinations
- presentations
- self-led project or dissertation
- group work
- Year 1 students: 58% by written exams and 42% by coursework
- Year 2 students: 58% by written exams and 42% by coursework
Professional bodies
Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.
- Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
- Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
- Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
How to apply
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
- Year 2
Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 120 - 128 points
A level - ABB - BBB
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DDM
Access to HE Diploma
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF) - DDM
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 29 - 30 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H3, H3, H3, H3, H3 - H2, H2, H3, H3, H3
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma - DDM
T Level - M
English language requirements
Test | Grade | Additional details |
---|---|---|
IELTS (Academic) | 6 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5. |
PTE Academic | 54 | An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill. |
TOEFL (iBT) | 79 | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Trinity ISE | Pass | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components |
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
EU | £9250 | Year 1 |
England | £9250 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
International | £17200 | Year 1 |
Additional fee information
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP