Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Accounting

1. To teach learners techniques in financial accounting and related subjects and how to apply the skills gained in solving practical accounting and related problems at advanced level.
2. To understand and apply the recent professional and legal requirements in published financial statements.
3. To prepare learners for advancement to masters and accounting profession Qualifications.
4. To acquaint learners in problem solving approach in their learning and to inculcate in them the ethical responsibility towards their prospective work place and the community at large.

Entry Requirements

The minimum entry requirement for this qualification is

• Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting, NQF Level 7.

BCom (Hon) (Acc)

1. Ability to produce advanced financial statements as required by the profession and the Companies Act.
2. Ability to understand, analyse and interpret published financial statements for various purposes.
3. Ability to formulate and conduct research study in the field of financial accounting theory and practice, and to relate the subject to the other disciplines.

Specify critical cross-field outcomes

1. Identify, analyse, formulate and solve problems in which responses display that responsible decisions using critical and creative thinking have been made.
2. Working effectively with others as a member of a team, group, organisation and community.
3. Organising and managing oneself and one's activities responsibly and effectively.
4. Using science and technology effectively and critically showing responsibility towards the environment and health of others.
5. Communicating using visual aids, mathematical and language skills in the modes of oral and or written persuasion.
6. Demonstrating an understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising that problem-solving contexts do not exist in isolation.

Associated Assessment Outcomes

1. Solve problems by means of exploring, and critically evaluating abstract and personal situations.
2. Solve problems by generating alternative strategies for dealing with those problems.

Specific outcomes

1. Think contextually, and reflect on learning from individual and academic disciplines in relation to political, social, cultural, technological and economic realities, locally and globally.
2. Think and do business or conduct oneself in public in a professional manner.

Associated Assessment Outcomes

1. Relate learning from individual experience to knowledge encountered in an academic environment and vice versa.
2. Relate learning from experience and academic contexts to different contexts using present and future scenarios.
3. Related learning from academic context to the expected professional and business ethics.

Qualification is awarded on successful completion of all the prescribed modules at Honours level.

In addition the following formative and summative continuous assessments apply

• Examinations,
• Assignment/class work,
• Group Project.

Integrated assessment incorporated to ensure that the purpose of the Degree is achieve

1. Written examinations.
2. Oral examinations.

Other

Group Projects.

Assignments.