Finance and Accounting

During your studies, you'll have access to a range of employability-focused support designed to enhance your future career prospects.

This includes CV workshops, interview preparation, career guidance, and guest talks from industry professionals, all aimed at helping you feel confident and career ready.

Whether you want to move into auditing, financial reporting, management accounting or financial services, the curriculum has been carefully designed to combine both theoretical and practical aspects of finance and accountancy. It will support you to gain an excellent grounding in tools and techniques, together with the wider understanding and real-world insights that all finance professionals need.

Explore business structure and organisational purpose, corporate governance and ethics and how they affect organisations both internally and externally. Explore the English legal system and sources of law, study day-to-day business transactions, and apply and analyse management accounting techniques.

You'll learn how to prepare and process cost and quantitative information to aid management in budgeting, planning, controlling, and decision making. Expand on general-purpose financial statements, qualitative characteristics of useful financial information, assets and liabilities.

You'll study scarce resources, pricing, make-or-buy decisions, and an application of methods to allow for risk. Apply accounting standards in the preparation of financial statements of entities, with analysis and interpretation of financial reports and statements. Focus on the rules of income tax, corporation tax, capital gains tax, national insurance, and VAT, enabling you to prepare detailed computations for a corporate body with subsidiaries and individuals.

You’ll cover financial management strategies such as maximisation of shareholder wealth and long-term growth, and learn about investing, financing and dividend policy – as well as evaluating an organisation's situation, analysis, strategic alternatives, and implementation and evaluation of their strategic plan. We also consider planning and risk assessments, including the identification and evaluation of sources, rationale, and process for collecting various types of audit evidence, then analysis of a review of financial statements while assessing audit reporting.

As a student at ARU London you'll have access to:

• over 30 lecture theatres ranging in size from those that can accommodate up to 200 students in a theatre-style seating arrangement, to others that are perfect for highly interactive seminars
• two interconnected buildings with libraries containing core texts, wider reading materials, printers, and computer labs. There are also multiple study pods and booths for group work or personal study.

You’ll be supported by:

• our Employability Service, helping you develop skills, knowledge, and experience through a range of extra-curricular sessions and career-focused support
• experienced wellbeing advisors and counsellors, offering assistance with mental, physical, medical, and/or learning conditions
• a mobile app giving you 24/7 access to learning resources, the e-library, and your timetable.