Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Cost and Management Accounting

The qualification intends

• To teach learners how to be in control of the flow of management information, relate financial forecast to actual results achieved, monitor sales and profit trend and provide advice on alternative actions that can be taken.
• To teach learners at an advanced level of how to design and manage information systems (including technology).
• To equip learners with relevant knowledge of advising clients on a wide variety of matters which can be crucial for success or failure, from computer systems to personnel and from corporate strategies to marketing and investments.
• To prepare learners for advancement to Masters and other Cost and Management Accounting Profession programmes.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

The institution conducts RPL in terms of the policy and guidelines of the institution to recognise other forms of formal, informal and non-formal learning and experience. In cases where learners do not comply with the formal admission requirements, the institution applies its RPL policy.

Entry Requirements

The minimum entry requirement for this qualification is

• Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting Science, NQF Level 7.

1. Provide meaningful information that can be used to determine whether resources are being used usefully and effectively as well as to determine whether the various activities of the enterprise offer value for money.
2. Formulate and conduct a simple research study in the field of Cost and Management Accounting.
3. Manage change in the enterprise.

Associated assessment criteria for Exit Level Outcomes

• Solve problems by means of exploring, and critically evaluating abstract and personal situations.
• Solve problems by generating alternative strategies for dealing with those problems.
• Think contextually, and reflect on learning from individual experience and academic disciplines about political, social, cultural, technological and economic realities, locally and globally.
• Think and do business or conduct oneself in public in a professional manner.
• Relate learning from individual experience to knowledge encountered in an academic environment and vice versa.
• Relate learning from experience and academic contexts to different contexts using present and future scenarios.
• Relate learning from academic context to the expected professional and business ethics.

Integrated assessment

Integrated assessment incorporated to ensure that the purpose of the qualification is achieved.

1. Written examinations.
2. Oral examinations.

Other

• Group Projects.
• Assignments.