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
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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
- Introduction to Business Management
- End User Computing/Digital Transformation in the Business Environment
- 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
- A Higher Certificate; an Advanced Certificate or Diploma
- It is possible in some cases, to gain entry into the programme on the basis of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is accounting?
Accounting is the process of recording financial transactions about a business and creating financial reports to reflect these transactions. It is an essential part of the business management process.
What kind of jobs can you get with an accounting degree?
There are various different types of career choices available for those who have completed an accounting degree or an accounting course from an accredited distance learning institution. Some of these include bookkeeper, staff accountant, accounts clerk, payroll officer, auditor, financial analyst or tax advisor.
What are the different types of accounting?
There are two types of accounting practices that are used to accomplish different financial goals and objectives. These include financial accounting and management accounting. Financial accounting is the process of recording-keeping of historical financial data. This means that an accountant or financial administrator has to keep track of items by balancing books. Management accounting provides data about the operations of the company. The purpose of this type of accounting is to generate specific reports relating to risk and performance. There are also several types of specialisations within the field of accounting. These include Cost Accounting, Tax Accounting, Forensic Accounting and Auditing.
What do you do as an accountant?
An accountant works with a business’s financial statements to accurately reflect the financial health of the organisation. They use their skills to manage duties relating to payroll data, billing and invoicing, preparing financial statements and budgets, analysing expenditure reports, and supervising financial transactions.
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