Key features
- Accredited and registered
- Cutting-edge curriculum
- Flexible structure
- Online support
- Affordable and Accessible
- Internationally benchmarked
- Multicultural Faculty and support
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.
This programme provides a solid grounding in the academic theory underpinning the main concepts of the field of Accounting. The curriculum includes a significant practical component based on assignments and case studies. A range of more generalised modules such as Introduction to Functional Areas of Management and Business Communication, which are regarded as essential in today’s competitive business environment are also included in the programme.
Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the programme, the student should be able to:
- 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
- Introduction to Business Ethics
- Financial Accounting 2A
- Commercial Law
- Management Accounting and Finance 2A
Semester 2
- Financial Accounting 2B
- Business Law
- Taxation 2A
- 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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