Accounting and Finance Degrees

You will gain a solid grounding in the core elements of accounting and finance, ensuring you are well prepared for a variety of accountancy careers after graduation.

The Accounting and Finance Foundation Year introduces core business and finance concepts while helping you develop key academic, personal and professional skills.

The combination of the practical experience and technical expertise of our lecturing team and our excellence in teaching and learning make USW's ACCA course very special.

Our MSc Finance and Investment will develop the knowledge and skills needed for an understanding of the theories, techniques and regulatory environment of financial market investment. You will study a range of finance and investment modules and use powerful simulation software and financial databases.

USW's respected Forensic Audit and Accounting master’s course - the only course of its kind in the UK - has been running for over ten years and provides specialist skills in fraud investigation, valuations, assist in dispute resolution, expert reporting, and cyber investigations.

Taught by award-winning tutors from our Platinum-accredited ACCA programme, modules are aligned with the final Strategic Professional Level of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Qualification.

This course allows students who have already completed all ACCA Strategic Professional Level exams and have a minimum of one year’s post-qualification experience to join a fast-track Master’s route. Students will gain a Master’s in Professional Accounting (with ACCA tuition) (fast track) through the completion of a detailed research project.