Key features
- Accredited and registered
- Cutting-edge curriculum
- Flexible structure
- Online support
- Affordable and Accessible
- Internationally benchmarked
- Multicultural Faculty and support
- BCom Accounting Degree distance learning
About
The Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting is a three-year undergraduate degree programme that equips students to enter a range of professional careers in the exciting field of accounting. The programme aims at developing a student’s intellectual ability and provides skills for the recording and processing of financial information within an accounting framework.
Outcomes
- Display the necessary knowledge and skills, attitudes and applied competence to enable them to demonstrate administrative proficiency
- Display knowledge of management in general
- Apply skills of rational judgment and planning
- Recognise and appreciate changes within organizations
- Make appropriate use of information technology
- Analyse and solve operational problems
- Display skills for the recording and processing of financial information within an accounting framework
- Display ethical behaviour in a corporate management context
- Develop the functional competence of a graduate to proceed to middle management level within an accounting (auditing/tax) environment
Programme structure
Duration: 3 years
Year 1
Semester 1
- Introduction to Business Management
- End User Computing
- Business Mathematics
- Economics 1A
Semester 2
- Introduction to Functional Areas of Management
- Business Communication
- Introduction to Financial Accounting
- Economics 1B
Year 2
Semester 1
- Taxation 2A
- Financial Accounting 2A
- Business Law
- Management Accounting and Finance 2A
Semester 2
- Financial Accounting 2B
- Commercial Law
- Introduction to Business Ethics
- Introduction to Auditing
Year 3
Semester 1
- Financial Accounting 3A
- Management Accounting and Finance 3A
- Taxation 3A
- Auditing 3A
Semester 2
- Financial Accounting 3B
- Management Accounting and Finance 3B
- Taxation 3B
- Auditing 3B
Admission requirements
- The minimum entry requirement is the National Senior Certificate or National Certificate Vocational with appropriate subject combinations and levels of achievement; or
- An equivalent NQF level 4 qualification with proven proficiency in English; or
- A Higher Certificate, an Advanced Certificate or Diploma.
Application
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