Part II in detail

Part II is where your final degree mark is determined. To graduate with an accounting and finance degree from Lancaster, you will be required to take the equivalent of sixteen courses, each of ten weeks' duration. Normally these sixteen courses will be split equally between your second and third years (or second and fourth years if your degree includes a one-year placement). The assessments (exams and coursework) for all these sixteen courses are added together to determine your final degree mark.

The first block of eight courses in your second year contains a large compulsory element. This ensures that all students gain a good basic grounding in the core areas of their chosen subject. Despite this large compulsory element, you still retain some element of choice over what you study. Normally you will have free choice over at least one or two second-year courses. You can choose to do more accounting and finance-related courses; or you can opt to study something completely different such as economics, maths, computing, law, languages, politics, etc.

The second block of eight courses in your final year has a much greater element of choice. This choice manifests itself in several ways:

  • First, you are able to select from a wide range of advanced accounting and finance courses. This allows you to tailor your studies to suit your own particular interests: if you’re more interested in accounting then you can tilt the balance of your degree towards accounting-related subjects; if you prefer finance then you can tilt the balance towards finance-oriented courses.
     
  • Second, you have the opportunity to take up to two courses offered by other departments. This gives you the chance to further develop skills in other areas that may either interest you or help you land your dream job.

You can get more detail on the Accounting and Finance undergraduate degree schemes in the following booklet:

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