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BA Business Management (Accounting & Finance)
About this course
Business management with an accounting and finance specialism is a degree that combines the broad foundation of management education with a focused grounding in the financial principles that underpin commercial decision-making. Management education develops your understanding of strategy, operations, marketing, human resources, and organisational behaviour. Accounting and finance adds the specific technical and analytical skills needed to understand financial statements, manage costs, evaluate investments, and navigate the financial dimensions of running an organisation. Together they equip you for a wide range of roles at the interface of business leadership and financial management. At Arden University, this part-time degree is delivered through distance learning, giving you the flexibility to study from anywhere in the world at a pace that suits your life and work. You can enrol from any location and study entirely online, without the need to attend classes in a physical location. This makes the programme particularly well suited to those who are already working and wish to develop their qualifications alongside their professional responsibilities. You will study the core disciplines of business management alongside accounting, financial management, taxation, and the regulatory frameworks within which financial practice operates. The typical entry tariff of 72 points reflects an accessible approach to admissions. Business management graduates with accounting and finance expertise enter a wide range of careers. Financial analysis, management accounting, commercial management, small business finance, and general management roles across many sectors are all accessible with this background. Many graduates also pursue professional accounting qualifications with bodies such as ACCA or CIMA to achieve chartered status, which is a recognised route to senior financial roles. The distance learning format at Arden means that many students are already in employment and are using the degree to formalise and extend their professional knowledge, which often accelerates their career progression directly.
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