Bachelor of Commerce Honours in Accounting
Business, Commerce and Management Studies - Finance Economics and Accounting
Purpose and Rationale
The objectives of the course include:
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Teaching Techniques in Financial Accounting: Provide learners with the necessary skills in financial accounting and related subjects to solve practical accounting problems at an advanced level.
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Understanding Professional and Legal Requirements: Enable learners to comprehend and apply recent professional and legal requirements in the preparation of published financial statements.
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Preparation for Advanced Qualifications: Prepare learners for progression to master's programs and accounting profession qualifications.
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Problem-Solving Approach: Familiarize learners with a problem-solving approach to learning, enhancing their ability to tackle complex accounting issues.
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Ethical Responsibility: Instill in learners a sense of ethical responsibility towards their future workplace and the wider community.
These objectives aim to equip learners with the necessary knowledge, skills, and ethical values to excel in the field of financial accounting and related professions.
Outcomes
- Ability to produce advanced financial statements as required by the profession and the Companies Act.
- Ability to understand, analyse and interpret published financial statements for various purposes.
- Ability to formulate and conduct research study in the field of financial accounting theory and practice, and to relate the subject to the other disciplines. Specify critical cross-field outcomes:
- Identify, analyse, formulate and solve problems in which responses display that responsible decisions using critical and creative thinking have been made.
- Working effectively with others as a member of a team, group, organisation and community.
- Organising and managing oneself and one's activities responsibly and effectively.
- Using science and technology effectively and critically showing responsibility towards the environment and health of others.
- Communicating using visual aids, mathematical and language skills in the modes of oral and or written persuasion.
- 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:
- Solve problems by means of exploring, and critically evaluating abstract and personal situations.
- Solve problems by generating alternative strategies for dealing with those problems. Specific outcomes:
- Think contextually, and reflect on learning from individual and academic disciplines in relation to political, social, cultural, technological and economic realities, locally and globally.
- Think and do business or conduct oneself in public in a professional manner. Associated Assessment Outcomes:
- 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.
- Related learning from academic context to the expected professional and business ethics.
Assessment Criteria
Qualification is awarded on successful completion of all the prescribed modules at Honours level. In addition, the following formative and summative continuous assessments apply:
- Examinations
- Assignment/class work
- Group Project
Integrated assessment is incorporated to ensure that the purpose of the Degree is achieved through:
- Written examinations
- Oral examinations
- Group Projects
- Assignments
Qualification Details
- Type
- Honours Degree
- NQF Level
- 08
- Min. Credits
- 120
- SAQA Source
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