42 Accounting, Taxation and Audit Degree Programs in South Africa

CIMA is the world’s leading and largest professional body of Management Accountants with a unique blend of management accounting.

Doctor of Philosophy in Accounting Sciences is an appropriate master's degree in the field of Accounting Sciences is required. All students with foreign qualifications, including those with qualifications from African countries, must have their qualifications evaluated at SAQA. In addition to this requirement, candidates must submit a transcript of their academic record, as well as a document describing their intended research and preferred focus area.

Without accounting, businesses would have no idea how much money they earn or how much they lose. This is why business accountants play a significant role.

Once you complete this programme, you will be able to apply accounting and numeracy skills to enter an accounting occupation directly and be able to deal with all procedures such as to understand accounting and management principles to have the acquired knowledge and skills of accounting systems generally used by business enterprises, also to have the knowledge and skills of all administrative-accounting tasks.

The curriculum consists of a thesis that incorporates a research proposal, an oral defence (viva voce) and two manuscripts, based on the candidate's research, submitted for publication to a recognised accredited journal. Proof of the submission of the manuscripts is a compulsory condition for the degree to be conferred.

The government has identified financial Accounting and Bookkeeping as a scarce and critical skill.

The ICB Financial Accounting Programme teaches you the skills you need to have a career in Bookkeeping and Accounting. The ICB Foundation Level National Certificate in Junior Bookkeeping will equip you with the skills to perform bookkeeping and payroll functions.

Pax College offers a recognised course in Financial Management designed to prepare a student interested in the Accounting and Bookkeeping field.

This is one of the University’s flagship programmes accredited with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

The curriculum consists of a dissertation that incorporates a research proposal to be completed within the first year of study.

The MCom in International Tax programme objective is for students to acquire knowledge about the analysis and interpretation of double tax conventions using recognized model conventions as a base and their interaction with South African income tax, as well as problem solving skills based on practical examples of application of these frameworks. Students who are working in an international tax environment while pursuing this programme, would derive the most benefit therefrom

You need to be a registered ACCA Student and have opted-in to the BSc Degree Scheme.