B.A. (Hons) Business Accounting & Finance

Our degree programme aims to make you a high-level, financial-literate graduate. It will see you critically avaluating the relationships between business strategy and operational business needs and giving you the opportunity to develop your skills to provide creative and innovative solutions of companies’ financial resources.

This degree, the BA (Hons) Business, Accounting and Finance has been designed in consultation with industry and the professional bodies to provide you with relevant vocational underpinning skills and knowledge. A forum of regional industry leaders was involved in the design of this degree programme; which has ensured that not only is the content relevant, but that the skills developed match those demanded by prospective employers. In the first year, modules are taken together with students on other Business degrees, giving you a strong foundation in all the key business processes essential to understanding the wider role of the accountant in practice. Modules in the second and final years are specialist in nature.

Professional identity is created through reflection upon your own personal values, attitudes, morals and beliefs, whilst considering the interaction of these within the legal, ethical and moral frameworks. As you move through the programme you will experience a wide range of roles within the industry providing you with an understanding of the role and purpose of the different professional bodies and therefore encouraging you to develop your own professional 4 identity. A further feature of the programme is the use of optional modules in level 5 and 6 to enable students to tailor their studies towards either including more technical specialisms which aim for a higher number of exemptions with the accounting professional bodies or to include a wider range of business focussed modules which may appeal to those students seeking a senior role in industry.

As a graduate of this award you should understand the changing financial and reputational factors that will affect organisational success in the short, medium and long term, and be able to take these factors into account in the decisions you take in future career roles (A4S, 20121 ). The programme has, as a central philosophy, the expectations placed on todays’ professional accountants in business and how they create, enable, preserve, and report sustainable value for their employing organizations in a rapidly changing economic and competitive environment. (Hall, D.T. 2004) The challenge of this combination of activity is well recognised at the University of Cumbria, which prides itself on providing vocationally relevant and integrated degrees and ensuring you have the support necessary to build up your resilience.

From eCommerce and entrepreneurship to marketing and business administration and how digital technology has remodelled the business world – we’ll teach you all you need to become a well-rounded, excellent business graduate.

• Completion of Vision College’s Foundation Programme (Direct entry into Level 4/ Year 1)
• Completion of Vision College’s Diplomas (Diploma in Business Administration, Diploma in Accounting) (Direct entry into Level 5/ Year 2)
• STPM/A Level with TWO(2) full passes or equivalent with minimum CGPA 2.0
• UEC with 5 subjects with a minimum ‘B’ grades
• Any other equivalent qualifications that is recognised by the government of Malaysia
• Matriculation/ Foundation studies in Business or foundation in related field
• Diploma in related field or equivalent qualification
• Overall IELTS band score of 6.0

• Managing People and Organisations
• The Business Environment
• Introduction to Business Finance
• Tamadun Islam dan Tamadun Asia
• Co-curiculum
• Fundamentals of Business
• Principles of Marketing
• Management Accounting
• Management Accounting for Decision Making
• The Financial Regulatory Environment
• Responsibility, Ethics and Sustainability in Practice
• Managing Operations
• Bahasa Kebangsaan A/ Entrepreneurship
• Introduction to Audit and Assurance
• Corporate Law
• An Introduction to Taxation
• Corporate Financial Reporting
• Corporate Financial Management
• Management Accounting for Managing Performance
• Hubungan Etnik
• Malaysian Economics
• Business Valuation and Financial Risk
• Audit and Assurance in Practice
• Advanced Taxation

Accountant , Auditor, Consultants, Assistant Accountants, Management Officers, Tax Accountants, Account Consultants, Forensic Accounting, Bank Officers, Lecturers, Financial Advisers, Officers, Logistics, International Business Coordinating Officer

3 Year (Full time) / 4 years 4 months (Part time)

Certificate will be awarded by University of Cumbria to participants upon successful completion of the course. The final award received is BA (Hons) Business Accounting and Finance.