Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Financial Accounting

Purpose and Rationale of the Qualification

• To provide students with advanced knowledge and skills about advanced aspects of financial accounting, thus equipping them for a career in accounting and management areas of the private and public sectors where their participation will promote sustainable growth and development, and maximise prosperity in all sectors of the economy and society.
• To develop competent leaders in the various fields of accounting and management, possessing applied fundamental and generic cross functional technical knowledge and skills, enabling them to steer sustainable development, growth and prosperity in the most appropriate direction.
• To provide students who would like to proceed to further post-graduate studies in the accounting sciences with initial research skills and a sound academic base from which to do so.

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)

• Access may be gained to the qualification through the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).

Entry Requirements

• Bachelor of Commerce, Level 7.

1. Read and interpret advanced accounting literature, implying the ability to teach toneselfs from source material.
2. Demonstrate advanced understanding of the use of scientific methods in the acquisition of accounting data and knowledge.
3. Solve complex problems in a critical and creative way by applying appropriate accounting methods.
4. Work effectively with others as a member of a management team in the private, developmental and public sectors.
5. Organise and manage oneself and one's personal activities responsibly and effectively.
6. Collect, analyse, organise and critically evaluate more advanced and technically more complex accounting related information.
7. Communicate effectively, using visual, mathematical and or language skills in the modes of oral and oral or written persuasion.
8. Use advanced accounting based science and technology effectively and critically, showing responsibility towards the environment and the interests of others.
9. Demonstrate advanced understanding of the world as a set of related systems by recognising accounting related problem solving contexts do not exist in isolation.
10. Demonstrate understanding of and ability to apply an advanced range of accounting related equipment, techniques, procedures and experimental approaches.
11. Apply advanced accounting related knowledge and practical skills to address theoretical and practical accounting and to learn appropriate lessons from these experiences.
12. Conduct research of a limited scope in the field of Financial Accounting.

A demonstrated understanding of

• Some of the latest advances in the theory and practice of accounting.
• The advanced empirical bodies of knowledge.
• Extensive practical experiences and application of skills in financial accounting.
• A research dissertation that complies with requirements.

Integrated Assessment

• Integrated assessment takes place by way of a variety of procedures including practically orientated cross-disciplinary individual and group assignments, simulations, workplace assessments, written and oral presentations, tests and examinations.