Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting and Finance Major

Plant the seeds for a rewarding future with a degree that puts you at the heart of where successful businesses succeed and grow – with the finance and accounting skills to navigate the changing world of business here in New Zealand or overseas.

Cultivate your expertise and potential by learning how firms design, develop then apply financial systems and models to nurture value. This accounting and finance major from Lincoln University prepares you for employment almost anywhere in the world, with the knowledge and real world experience that meets the requirements of professional accounting and finance bodies.

How you’ll grow

• Through relevant, real world-based course content that feeds your career prospects.
• A programme that combines academic learning with practical skills to develop your accounting and finance expertise.
• A recognised and respected qualification that meets all the requirements of Australasia’s professional accounting bodies including Certified Practising Accountants Australia (CPA), Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
• A recognised CFA Institute University Affiliation Program that provides you with a pathway to obtain the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation to become investment and financial professionals.
• A degree that leads accounting and finance firms to approach Lincoln University asking for introductions to graduates.

Career opportunities

You will be strongly positioned for a career in Professional Accounting, Banking and Rural Banking, Rural Accounting, Financial Consulting, Stock Broking, Investment Analysis, Auditing, Business Advisory, Insurance and Financial Control.

> This degree gives me the option to become either a Chartered Accountant or a Chartered Financial Analyst. But I don’t have to decide until after I graduate. So I can get some work experience then choose.

Gregory Fleming

Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting and Finance major

Upon successful completion of this degree programme, you will be awarded a Bachelor of Commerce with an Accounting and Finance major.

Graduate Attributes

Graduate Attributes refer to the knowledge, skills, and values that you gain from completing your qualification. These high-level qualities will prepare you for career success, further study or research and making a valuable contribution to society in your chosen field. Attributes in italics apply to the Major, the others apply to the BCom core courses.

Knowledge

• Explain the importance and the role of Global Value Chains, and their contributions made by various commerce disciplines in creating value and sustaining superior performance in those chains.
• Evaluate and contextualise a range of accounting and finance issues within the business environment and discuss their implications on business.
• Evaluate a range of tools and techniques to solve accounting and finance problems.

Skills

• Investigate and learn new concepts throughout their working lives.
• Evaluate and address the most important challenges facing global businesses.
• Synthesise relevant information from a variety of reputable sources in order to make sound decisions.
• Be self-reliant and capable of forming opinions that they can believe in, defend with logic and integrity, and gain support for.
• Prepare and analyse a range of accounting and finance reports.

Values

• Identify the impact of business decisions on the environment and society, including cultural values of all stakeholders.

Explain the importance of conducting business to the highest standards of an ethical and professional framework for accounting and finance professionals.