Bachelor of Commerce in Cost and Management Accounting

• To teach learners techniques and scientific approach to business decisions that are demanded by the complexity of the modern business environment.
• To train and acquaint learners who intend to become management accounts with the more commonly used quantitative methods.
• To prepare learners for further advancement in their cost and management accounting profession i.e. Chartered Management Accountant.
• To prepare learners to be able to design and Management Information Systems.

Entry requirements

The minimum entry requirement for this qualification is

• National Senior Certificate, NQF Level 4, granting access to Bachelor studies.
• Diploma of Commerce in Cost and Management Accounting, NQF Level 6.

BCom (CMA)

Learning outcomes

1. Ability to fulfill an active role in the management team by ensuring effective formative strategy, planning, budgeting and financial management.
2. Ability to manage change in the enterprise.

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 the 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 reflects 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 context 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 degree is achieved

1. Written examinations.
2. Oral examinations.

Other

Group Projects.

Assignments.