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Accounting

Category: Accounting Sciences

Course Details:

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.

BCom Accounting Degree programme provides a solid grounding in the academic theory underpinning the main concepts of the field of Accounting. The accredited distance learning 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.

Course Syllabus

Admission Requrements

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

It is possible in some cases, to gain entry into the programme on the basis of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

Outcome:

Upon successful completion of the Accounting Degree, distance learning, 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

  • 1st year

    First Year Courses

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    • Year 1
      Semester 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

    Assessment

    • Three written papers form the First University Examination, together with a submitted portfolio of two exam essays of 2,000 words for Introduction to English Language and Literature.
    • All exams must be passed, but marks do not count towards the final degree.
  • 2nd year

    Second Year Courses

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    • 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

    Assessment

    • Three written papers form the First University Examination, together with a submitted portfolio of two exam essays of 2,000 words for Introduction to English Language and Literature.
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  • 3rd year

    Third Year Courses

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    • 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

    Assessment

    • Three written papers form the First University Examination, together with a submitted portfolio of two exam essays of 2,000 words for Introduction to English Language and Literature.
    • All exams must be passed, but marks do not count towards the final degree.

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