Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting

1. To give learners an option to major in Financial Management at undergraduate level and to teach them the concepts, and techniques used in business financing, dividends and investment decisions.
2. To teach learners how to analyse and interpret business financial statements for various uses.
3. To apply the knowledge and skills gained to solve practical financial business management problems.
4. To prepare learners in problem solving approach in their learning and to inculcate in them the sense of responsibility towards their prospective work place and the community at large.

Entry requirements

The minimum entry requirement for this qualification is

• National Senior Certificate, NQF Level 4, granting access to Bachelor studies.

B Com (Financial Management)

1. Ability to understand financial management concepts and techniques.
2. Ability to apply skills learned in business financing and investment decisions and to communicate freely with the business community.
3. Ability to analyse and interpret financial statements for different purposes.

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 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 experience 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. Relate learning from academic context to the expected professional and business ethics.

1. Qualification is awarded on successful completion of all the prescribed modules to year 3.
2. The following formative and summative continuous assessments apply:

• Examinations: 30%
• Assignment/class work: 20%
• Group Project: 50%

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

1. Written examinations.
2. Oral examinations.

Group Projects.

Assignments.