BCL Law and Accounting
Embark on the route to becoming a professional in accounting or law, both of which offer a rewarding career with international mobility and high earning potential with this Law and Accounting programme from Maynooth University.
Duration
3 or 4 years
Starting Date
September
Tuition Fee
€14,000 per year
Location
Maynooth, Ireland
The programme
Enhance your employability by developing your faculties for argument, reasoning and for the analysis of complicated ideas.
Acquire key financial and accounting skills alongside a thorough grounding in core law subjects. Become a highly sought-after law and accounting graduate with the technical and transferable skills needed to succeed in your chosen career.
Engage with expert faculty, who foster an engaging, friendly, supportive and dynamic learning environment.
Why choose this degree?
- This programme is jointly accredited by both the legal and accounting professions. You can avail of exemptions (upon graduation) from CAP 1 examinations from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland, and equivalent examination papers from the ACCA, CIMA, and CPA professional accounting bodies.This law degree is accredited by the Honorable Society of King’s Inns.
- This option is designed for students who would like to combine their study of law with gaining a strong background in accounting. For the three years of this programme, you will study Law and Accounting in equal measure, making this degree particularly attractive if you are considering a career in these fields.
- You will acquire key financial and accounting skills alongside a thorough grounding in core law subjects.
- Flexibility and choice: BCL students who successfully complete the first year of the programme have the option of transferring into the second year of the LLB programme (MH501).
Career Options
The numeracy skills, coupled with an ability to think critically and analytically, which are developed on this programme, are invaluable assets in a wide range of careers. Graduates have successful and rewarding careers in accounting, banking and the financial services sector generally, as well as financial research and teaching.
Courses Included
- Students acquire a thorough grounding in both core law subjects and key financial and accounting skills.
- 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) – while studying technical accounting skills, financial analysis and the measurement of performance in business.
- Enhance employability by developing your faculties for argument, reasoning and for the analysis of complicated ideas.