Accreditations
The Degree in Finance and Accounting provides comprehensive and rigorous training in Management, combined with advanced specialisation in Accounting, Auditing, and Financial Management, both within companies and across financial markets. This academic pathway places graduates in a highly competitive position, giving them access to a wide range of roles and careers in business management — traditionally among the most sought-after by employers.
In the third year, students may choose one of two specialisations — Finance or Accounting — enabling them to develop specific, practice-oriented skills tailored to the professional demands of each area, thereby strengthening their ability to integrate and progress within the business environment.
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The Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and Accounting stands out for its strong ties to the business world and for providing solid training in the essential skills required in today’s corporate environment. Here, you will learn to master the ‘language of business’ that accounting represents, to prepare financial information for internal and external decision-makers, and to analyze and manage investments in an increasingly demanding context.
Our programme combines academic rigor with practical application. In the first year, you will develop a robust foundation in Management, Accounting, and Finance. From there, you will deepen your expertise until the final year, when you can choose the area in which you want to specialize (Finance or Accounting), building a professional profile aligned with your goals.
If you’re looking for a program that prepares you for real-world challenges, this is the right course for you.
In Portugal, the International Student Status grants foreign students from outside of the European Union a specific number of vacancies on the undergraduate degrees, as well as the possibility of applying directly at Iscte.
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The course is lectured in Portuguese.
Specialization in Capital Markets and Securities Operations (Partnership with BNP Paribas)
Starting in the academic year 2020/21, an opportunity has arisen in three Iscte degrees:
> Management;
> Economics;
> Finance and Accounting.
The final year students of these courses will be able to specialize in Capital Markets and Securities Operations.
This new specialization works in partnership with BNP Paribas. It presupposes a positive result in three specific curricular units: Financial Markets Operations, Investments, and Asset Management. Once they have completed the subjects, students applying to BNP Paribas will be admitted in a special and simplified recruitment process, without the need to take the usual pre-selection tests applied to all applicants.
Teacher-Student Proximity
The close atmosphere between students and faculty is evident. It is embodied in collegial practices of managing the learning experience, in the intense support given to the economics students nucleus (NAE), in the existence of a weekly timetable to attend to students, in the provision of permanent contact via e-mail, and in close liaison with former students throughout their professional lives.
With the exception of some first year subjects, all courses are organised in theoretical-practical classes. The aim is to increase the contact of each professor with their students and ensuring that each class has a number of students that favours the best possible learning experience.
Thematic Workshops and Training
Iscte Business School promotes a wide range of extra-curricular activities to prepare students for the job market.
In addition, some thematic workshops and trainings are promoted throughout the academic year. Some examples are sessions to build CVs and Cover Letters, preparation sessions for Interviews, Psychotechnical Tests, Group Dynamics, among other initiatives.
Students are informed in advance about the dates of the activities.
BDO rewards the best undergraduate student in Finance & Accounting.
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