Bachelor of Accounting Sciences in Internal Auditing
Business, Commerce and Management Studies - Finance Economics and Accounting
Purpose and Rationale
Purpose and Rationale:
The purpose of this qualification is to enable qualifying students to pursue a career as internal auditors in industry and commerce. Additionally, it caters to students who aspire to further their studies to eventually pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination and become Certified Internal Auditors (CIAs) and members of the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA). This qualification aims to provide the necessary knowledge and skills for individuals to excel in the field of internal auditing, ensuring they are well-prepared for professional certification and career advancement.
Outcomes
- Apply general business principles to real life situations.
- Interpret economic realities of local community.
- Manage resources (financial, human and raw materials in organisations).
- Manage information appropriately.
- Relate knowledge and its contribution to developing different cultures.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
- Analyse real life situations: Identify needs and opportunities, strategic solutions within routine and non-routine contexts.
- Choose correct procedures: Solve specific business problems.
- Organise resources: Achieve maximum output with limited resources.
- Apply appropriate principles: Real life or simulated scenarios/case studies, evaluate results, meet required professional standards.
- Discuss and present information: Numerically, verbally, graphically, etc.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
- Interpret current economic events: Apply economic principles to real life situations.
- Compare past and potential future contexts: Relate learning from individual experience to academic knowledge.
- Interpret local conditions: In relation to international conditions, past, present, and future.
- Reflect on personal experience: Make connections to local community problems.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
- Evaluate economic and efficient use of resources: Identify critical areas for resource allocation and management.
- Follow specified procedures: Perform audits, understand systems approach to management.
- Convey findings and recommendations: To appropriate management levels in written/oral form.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
- Use disciplinary and interdisciplinary-based information: Explore relationships between economic and socio-cultural situations.
- Take informed stand: On socio-economic and social issues, interact with critical texts, produce critical texts.
- Collect, analyse, organize information: Evaluate ideas from various sources, integrate information to solve problems.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
- Relate information from one discipline to others: Identify cultural and economic systems, reconcile different management styles.
Integrated Assessment:
- Formative assessment: Activities in study guides, self-assessment questions, written assignments.
- Types of assignments: MCQs, short questions, essays.
- Feedback: Provided on activities, self-assessment questions, marked assignments, tutorial letters.
- Contribution to final mark: Assignments and examinations.
Qualification Details
- Type
- National First Degree
- NQF Level
- 07
- Min. Credits
- 360
- SAQA Source
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