Programme content
The BSc (Hons) Accounting, Auditing and Finance degree sheme is offered by Lancaster University's department of Accounting and Finance in conjunction with Ernst and Young. The programme combines academic study at Lancaster University, professional training with the Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland (ICAS) and salaried placements with Ernest and Young the degree follows the sturucture outlined below, over a four year period. At Lancaster your studies will be divided into Part I, your first year and Part II, years two, three and four.
Part I
Year One
You will spend your first year at Lancaster University studying three modules in different mangaement school departments: Accounting and Finance, Economics and Management Science. These modules comprise:
- AC.F100: Introduction to Accounting and Finance
- ECON100: Principles of Economics
- MSCI101: Statistics and Computing for Management
Part II (including years two, three and four)
Year Two
The second year of the degree combines and three-month paid placement with Ernst & Young (January to March) sandwiched by two terms at Lancaster. Your time at Lancaster will be spent focusing on the following six modules, of which AC.F222 is taken in the September preceding your second year:
- AC.F211: Introduction to Management Accounting
- AC.F213M: Accounting Information Systems and Auditing
- AC.F214M: Principles of Finance
- AC.F222: Principles of Financial Accouting
- MNGT212: Introdution to Statistical Methods for Business
- AC.F220: Business Law
Year Three
Your third year involves a full one year placement with Ernst & Young. During this period you will also complete a written disseration and sith the following two ICAS professional examinations:
- Assurance and Business Systems
- Advanced Finance
Year Four
In the fourth year of the degree you undertake your final three month placement, and you will also take six modules during the Michaelmas term at Lancaster, of which the following are compulsory:
- AC.F301: Financial Accouting I
- AC.F303: Advanced Management Accounting
- AC.F307: Issues in Auditing
- AC.F334: Financial Accounting II (taken in the summer term)
You will also take one optional Finance module
- AC.F302: Corporate Finance
- AC.F304: Bond Markets
- AC.F324: Quantitative Finance
Plus one further optional module.
EY Degree students in class at Lancaster
