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BSc Financial Economics with Accounting

Programme Director: Ken Hori

This degree will provide you with a broad economics and finance background and basic accounting skills. You will gain an extensive knowledge of the financial sector and its concerns. The Department has an excellent reputation for the quality of our teaching, providing training for employers such as the Treasury and the Bank of England.

For the first two years of this programme, you study with those on our BSc(Econ) Financial Economics, learning the core subjects in economics and finance. Then in Years 3 and 4 you take a mixture of modules from the BSc(Econ) Financial Economics and the BA Accounting and Management, offered by the Department of Management. You will therefore be able to devote up to a third of the programme to accounting-related topics. Those wishing to focus more on accounting are encouraged to take BSc Accounting and Finance offered by the Department of Management.

The programme is fairly demanding in terms of its use of quantitative techniques, and you will be expected to keep up with the pace of the lectures. If you have not studies maths for some time, Birkbeck runs an intensive two-week evening preliminary programme or refresher course in basic mathematics prior to the start of the degree. Quantitative skills are stressed throughout the programme.

Entry Requirements

  • Over 21: flexible entry requirements (some combination of relevant work experience and education to a UK A Level standard).
  • Under 21: normal university entry requirements.
  • Credit for relevant earlier studies.

Students without an adequate background in economics or quantitative methods may be required to take, and pass with a credit, two foundation modules from Birkbeck's Certificate of Higher Education in Economics.

Course Structure (PT)

   compulsory   option
Year 1   Year 2   Year 3   Year 4
Quantitative Techniques I Quantitative Techniques II   Quantitative Techniques III   Advanced Management Accounting
Introduction to Economics Principles of Finance   Corporate Finance   Financial Reporting
Financial Institutions and Markets Intermediate Microeconomics   Introduction to Accounting   International Finance
          Taxation and Auditing
          Financial Econometrics
          Applied Statistics and Econometrics
          Financial Institutions and Regulation
          Intermediate Macroeconomics
          Portfolio Management
take 3 compulsory modules take 3 compulsory modules   take 3 compulsory modules   take 2 compulsory modules and 1 option

Download a leaflet (part-time study, 4 years evenings) pdf format    Apply on-line
Download a leaflet (full-time study, 3 years evenings) pdf format    Apply on-line

General enquiries and questions concerning admissions should be directed to the Programme Administrator:

Victoria Gaynor
Tel: 020 7631 6432
Fax: 020 7631 6416
Email: Victoria Gaynor
Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX.