BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance
Career opportunities Graduates of this course are well-placed to enter a career in accountancy or in other areas of finance and the financial markets.
Accreditation Cass Business School’s BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance is supported by the ICAEW and has been designed so that students who meet the relevant criteria can achieve eight exemptions from the ICAEW’s Chartered Accountancy qualification. Graduates can also gain credits for prior learning from the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA).
Lianne Kong
2014 Graduate, Current employment: Goldman Sachs Cass Business School gave me opportunities to learn from lecturers with many years of experience in the financial sector. The degree equipped me with great skills and academic knowledge to secure a placement year in Goldman Sachs. The industry experience was very insightful and I enjoyed working in a dynamic environment that pushed me to strive for excellence in everything I did. Upon returning to my final year, I was offered a full-time Analyst role in Goldman Sachs and I am very grateful for the skills and knowledge developed throughout my undergraduate days at Cass that have contributed to my career path.
Hiren Gohil
2014 Graduate, Current employment: Deloitte
Dr Danielle Lyssimachou
Senior Lecturer, Course Director Dr Danielle Lyssimachou is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Course Director of the BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance. She is also an Honorary Lecturer at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, having previously held a full-time appointment there and was a Visiting Professor at EDHEC Business School, France, during 2009-13. Prior to joining academia, Dr Lyssimachou worked as a management accountant in the healthcare sector. Danielle has extensive experience leading accounting and finance courses at undergraduate, MSc, MBA and Executive Education level and she has received awards for her commitment to teaching excellence, including the Student Voice Award for Best Teaching by City University London and a Teaching Excellence Commendation by the University of Manchester. Dr Lyssimachou’s research examines the motives behind equity analyst behaviour and the properties and investment value of analyst forecasts. She has presented her research findings at various international and practitioner conferences and her research has been published in The Accounting Review and in Abacus.
Cass has provided me with a great platform to launch my career. Having lecturers who have real industry experience helped us to understand the more practical concepts of the course and its usefulness in real life. This has been very insightful, as I knew what I was learning and how it would be of use in real working life. The course combines rigorous academic study with intensive leadership training. Managers won’t just study leadership, they will practise it.
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