Southampton Solent University - Accountancy and Finance Taster Day

Accountancy and Finance Taster Day
20 October 2025, 09:30 - 14:45

You’re the Financial Manager – What’s Your Next Move?
Step into the role of a Financial Manager in this immersive, scenario-based experience at Southampton Solent University. If you're curious about accountancy, finance, banking, or the wider financial field, this dynamic taster day will put your decision-making skills to the test.

Through a mix of expert-led workshops and hands-on simulation, you’ll apply real-world liquidity management tools to identify financial pressures, diagnose problems, and develop practical solutions. You’ll take the lead in steering a business through financial challenges — and by the end of the day, you’ll have used professional tools to solve the kinds of problems companies face every day.

Along the way, you’ll also discover how these same tools can help you make smarter decisions in managing your own money — giving you valuable insights for your future career and life.

Key Benefits:

• Gain experience with professional liquidity management tools.
• Simulate the role of a Financial Manager responding to real business challenges.
• Learn how financial insight drives business survival and success.
• Meet experts and explore career paths in finance, accountancy, and banking.
• Experience Solent’s TEF Gold learning environment and student support. Firsthand.
• Practical knowledge they can use in both career and personal finance

Aims of the session: 

• Explain the importance of liquidity in business operations, including how poor cash flow management can lead to business failure.
• Identify common liquidity challenges faced by businesses using realistic financial scenarios.
• Apply core liquidity management tools to assess financial health and make data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate in a team challenge to create financial solutions that respond to real-time business pressures and unexpected events.
• Demonstrate problem-solving and decision-making skills under pressure, simulating the role of a financial manager in a professional context.
• Reflect on career pathways in accountancy, finance, banking, and consultancy, and understand how these roles contribute to business strategy and survival.