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Business Administration

Category: Business Management

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. The Bachelor of Business Administration is a three-year undergraduate degree programme that equips students with an understanding of business and management environments. The programme aims at developing a student’s intellectual ability, executive personality, and managerial skills through an appropriate blend of business and general education.

Students are able to understand and develop unique leadership qualities required to successfully manage a business. The Business Administration course programme is also designed to produce up-to-date, assertive and effective executives for business and other organisations and prepares students for further studies. The programme covers a variety of business and management principles.

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 Business Administration course programme, the student should be able to:

• Identify, analyse, formulate, and serve the needs of individuals and society creatively and innovatively.

• Work effectively both on own initiatives and with others as a member of a team, group, organisation, community, and contribute to the group output in tasks growing out of the business, commerce and management fields.

• Manage and organise his or her activities and live responsibly and effectively, including his or her studies within the distance context.

• Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate information, as required in the pursuit of the BBA.

• Communicate effectively using visual, mathematical and/or language skills in the modes of oral and/or written presentation in often extensive pieces of sustained discourse.

• Utilise science and technology effectively and critically showing responsibility towards the environment and health and well-being of others, in the community, national and global contexts.

• Demonstrate knowledge in the functional areas of business.

• Apply management principles in a work-based context.

• Anticipate and analyse trends in the business environment.

• Integrate theory and application from various functional areas in an interdisciplinary approach.

• Demonstrate an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that problem-solving contexts do not exist in isolation, and by acknowledging their responsibilities to those in the local and broader community.

  • 1st year

    First Year Courses

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    • Year 1
      Semester 1

      • Introduction to Business Management

      • Economics 1A

      • End User Computing/Digital Transformation in the Business Environment

      • Business Mathematics

      Semester 2

      • Introduction to Functional Areas of Management

      • Economics 1B

      • Business Communication

      • Financial Reporting and Analysis

    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

      • Organisational Leadership

      • Fundamentals of Human Reseource Management

      • Management Accounting

      • Business and Society

      Semester 2

      • Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses

      • Marketing

      • Information Systems

      • Business Statistics

    Assessment

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  • 3rd year

    Third Year Courses

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    • Year 3
      Semester 1

      • Ethics and Conflict

      • Organisational Diversity

      • Financial Planning and Control

      • Global Business and Strategy

      Semester 2

      • Project Management

      • Operational Management for Sustainability

      • Business Environment and Ethics

      • Strategic Management Practices

    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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