A degree in accounting can lead to an extremely fulfilling career that makes use of your numeracy and analytical skill set.
As an accounting graduate from Essex Business School, you will have developed key skills which allow you to manage money and adapt to a variety of sectors.
The professional qualification exemptions afforded to accounting students allow you to move towards your chartered accountant status at an accelerated rate which can make you an exciting prospect for your future graduate employer.
On this page you will discover the various accounting specialisms available to accounting graduates and hear from alumni who are working as specialists within the field.
A degree in accounting from Essex Business School will equip you with the knowledge and skills for you to be a competitive candidate in any area where accountancy is required.
Accountancy firms make up a huge amount of employment opportunities for accounting graduates, but there are plenty of opportunities for roles in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as many businesses have their own finance departments rather than outsourcing their financial obligations to one of the larger accountancy firms.
Throughout your studies in accounting at Essex Business School you will be exposed to a range of skills development embedded throughout our curriculum.
Although we teach you far more skills than are listed below (see the Essex Business School Careers page for more about embedded skills) we have pulled out the list below from our accounting skills map which we think will be most useful for a career in accounting:
Accounting is one of our five core subject groups and is led by our Accounting Group which is based at Essex Business School Colchester.
This means that we offer further study in accounting at both Masters and Research degree (PhD) level.
If you are interested in studying accounting at a higher level or want to take your own research in accounting and accountability to the next level, then you are welcome to apply for one of our postgraduate degrees in accounting:
We offer five Masters degrees in accounting which allow you to specialise in either pure accounting or combine your core subject with our expertise in finance and banking:
Our research centres take on modern issues in accounting. The Centre for Accountability and Global Development is an interdisciplinary research centre which focusses on research and training for advancing accountability in both developed and emerging economies while the Essex Accounting Centre focuses on research and teaching of interdisciplinary approaches to accounting to inform public policy.
If your thesis explores issues such as; accountability in accounting, accounting in emerging economies, intersectional representation in accounting or accounting processes; then our supervisors would be interested in speaking with you about exploring it here within our accounting research centres:
"Our accounting students are given the opportunity to mix accounting with finance and management. The reason for this is that we don’t want our students to go out into the graduate labour market with only one area of expertise, this mix of subjects gives our students an advantage. The world is so competitive; therefore, we have designed our degree programmes with competitiveness in mind to give our students the edge."
Did you know you could be graduating with enhanced quantitative skills simply by enrolling on specific Q-Step modules? If you follow the Q-Step pathway you will receive a qualifier award at the end of your degree which will signal to employers your capability in quantitative research. Whilst taking part in Q-Step you will also get the chance to undertake paid work placements of up to £300 per week.