The BA (Hons) in Accounting is a three year degree course that prepares students mainly for careers in accountancy.

This Accounting degree provides an excellent foundation for a rewarding career in accounting and related financial fields. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the modern accounting profession, combining a strong theoretical framework with the practical skills and analytical techniques needed to thrive in today’s fast-moving business world.

Whether you want to launch your career in accounting, audit, or taxation, or you’re looking to build expertise that opens doors across the financial sector, this degree will help you develop the knowledge, technical ability and communication skills required for success.

The BSc Accounting is a distinctive broad business degree. It is unique in that it prepares students for a career in business and finance and for the pursuit of a professional accounting qualification, to further enhance career progression in business. Students have the opportunity to study a wide range of subjects including finance, law, management, economics, information systems, accounting, marketing, and statistics.

The BA (Hons) in Accounting is a three-year course that prepares graduates for a global career in accounting and business and the pursuit of professional accounting qualifications. This course is accredited by various professional accounting bodies and boasts maximum available exemptions for those students wishing to pursue a professional accounting qualification.

Further exemptions are available with the Irish Taxation Institute allowing graduates the opportunity to pursue various roles in taxation.

This Accounting degree provides an excellent foundation for a rewarding career in accounting and related financial fields. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the modern accounting profession, combining a strong theoretical framework with the practical skills and analytical techniques needed to thrive in today’s fast-moving business world.

Whether you want to launch your career in accounting, audit, or taxation, or you’re looking to build expertise that opens doors across the financial sector, this degree will help you develop the knowledge, technical ability and communication skills required for success.

This course provides an ideal route to a career in professional accountancy and to a training contract with an accounting practice. You may also pursue a career in areas such as fund management, financial services, financial analysis, corporate finance and money markets.

This programme has been designed to broaden your opportunities in accounting.

The programme gives you the opportunity to maximise professional exemptions from many of the professional accounting bodies.

This programme is accredited by Chartered Accountants Ireland, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales. As a result, the regulatory bodies may require particular departures from the General Programme Regulations at Ulster University. Where that is the case, you will be given notice of those departures when they come into force. Such changes are only taken to ensure that the programme remains accredited with the regulatory body.

This Accounting degree provides an excellent foundation for a rewarding career in accounting and related financial fields. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the modern accounting profession, combining a strong theoretical framework with the practical skills and analytical techniques needed to thrive in today’s fast-moving business world.

Whether you want to launch your career in accounting, audit, or taxation, or you’re looking to build expertise that opens doors across the financial sector, this degree will help you develop the knowledge, technical ability and communication skills required for success.

This course equips graduates with the skills and knowledge necessary to work in the Accountancy or Financial Services sector. The ACCA qualification enjoys full international recognition which qualifies its members to work anywhere in the world. All books and materials are supplied and this is included in your course fee. Students can sit the session CBEs in Rathmines College during the year.

The BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance degree is ideal for students interested either in a career in the accounting profession or who wish to develop the expertise to analyse business activities from a financial perspective.

This Accounting and Finance degree reflects the multiple requirements of today’s business and finance world.  Whether you want to change career, improve job prospects or are a school leaver, the BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance is an excellent choice to develop your analytical techniques, economic expertise and strategic insight needed for a successful career within financial and business sectors.

Accountants are required by every business in every industry, providing expert business advice as well as managing the businesses economic activities and financial information. This three-year, Level 8 programme offers a direct pathway into a full-time career in accounting, and it also offers graduates opportunities in a range of business careers including, financial services and management consulting.

This degree offers one of the fastest routes to achieving a professional accounting qualification. Our final-year students are experiencing high demand for their skill set and receiving numerous offers of employment both locally and nationally, often prior to completion of the course. The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, case studies, problem-based learning and computer laboratory work. Students develop a detailed comprehension of core concepts and principles in accounting and will have the ability to apply this knowledge in problem-solving.

A BA in Accounting and Finance gives you a world of opportunities. It is considered Ireland’s premier degree for those wishing to pursue careers as accountants and financial services professionals. The course offers great prospects for career progression, and the chance to work in a wide range of different industries.

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This degree was first of its kind in Ireland, and this continues to be an extremely popular course. Graduates are highly regarded by the accounting and financial services professions, as can be seen in the consistently employment rates for those who take the BA in Accounting and Finance.

The BA (Hons) in Accounting & Finance degree programme is designed to prepare students for a career in the accounting and finance function in business. It features a blend of specialised accounting and finance subjects together with general business subjects. It aims to develop an awareness of the international relationships between finance and other business disciplines, to develop a critical and methodical approach to problem solving and decision making in a financial context and to develop the ability to interpret and communicate financial and other information.

The course provides a comprehensive introduction to accounting, progressing to cover more complex theoretical and practical accounting studies. The course explores a variety of other topics, including business, law, taxation, auditing, professional management, economics, corporate finance, microeconomics and macroeconomics, marketing, human resources management, and communications.

This four-year course prepares you for a career in professional accountancy and finance and can lead to a contact with an accounting practice. You don’t need to have studied any Leaving Certificate Accounting, Business or Economics subjects. We start at an introductory level, which will prepare you for the more complex concepts that you meet at a later stage in the course. All modules gradually develop students' knowledge with each module building on the knowledge acquired in previous semesters. 

This three year course aims to provide a level of knowledge and skills in Accounting and Finance that prepares students for middle level responsibility in an Accounting environment. Students who gain the Bachelor Degree Award may exit into the world of employment with this solid qualification.

You will learn how to compile, analyse, interpret and communicate essential information about the operations of a business – whether that business be a small firm, a publicly traded corporation or an NGO (non-governmental organisation). Study technical accounting skills, financial analysis and the measurement of performance in business.

NCI’s BA (Honours) in Accounting and Finance features a blend of specialised accounting and finance subjects together with general business subjects, giving you an excellent foundation in leadership and management as well as a critical and methodical approach to problem-solving and decision-making in a financial context.

Throughout the BA (Hons) in Accounting and Finance, you will develop the analytical techniques, economic expertise and strategic insight needed for a successful career within financial and business sectors. You will also learn how to practically apply your accounting knowledge and skills to inform strategic business decisions and create added value for stakeholders.

This four-year course prepares you for a career in professional accountancy and finance and can lead to a contact with an accounting practice. You don’t need to have studied any Leaving Certificate Accounting, Business or Economics subjects. We start at an introductory level, which will prepare you for the more complex concepts that you meet at a later stage in the course.

This three year course aims to provide a level of knowledge and skills in Accounting and Finance that prepares students for middle level responsibility in an Accounting environment. Students who gain the Bachelor Degree Award may exit into the world of employment with this solid qualification.

This degree programme provides an in-depth knowledge of the area of accounting and finance as well as the practical skills, both of which are essential in the rapidly changing and highly competitive world of business. Exemptions from Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) may apply.

This is not a CAO entry course - course fees required - apply directly to the college.

Throughout the BA (Hons) Degree in Accounting and Finance, you will develop the analytical techniques, economic expertise and strategic insight needed for a successful career within financial and business sectors. You will also learn how to practically apply your accounting knowledge and skills to inform strategic business decisions and create added value for stakeholders.