5 Accounting Bachelors Degree Programs in South Africa

The purpose of the BCom in Accounting is to provide students with a comprehensive knowledge base for identifying, analyzing, evaluating, and solving problems in the following underlying core modules: accounting; auditing; taxation, and financial management.

The purpose of the BCom (International Accounting) is to develop students’ intellectual and practical skills to enable the identifying, analyzing, interpretation, assessing, evaluating, application, and solving of problems, which would be expected of an entry-level accountant in international practice. Furthermore, the program provides students with a comprehensive and fundamental knowledge base of the underlying core international principles of accounting, governance, risk management, and control, auditing, financial management as well as management accounting.

The purpose of the Bachelor in Accounting is to provide a well-rounded, technically focused education that equips students with the technical knowledge base, proficiency, and pervasive skills that will enable them to demonstrate initiative and responsibility, and that will enable the development of leadership qualities.

This programme is aimed at students who may wish to become a member of an accounting professional institute (other than SAICA), or who do not wish to become professional accountants yet wish to major in accounting.

This programme is designed for students who wish to become professional accountants. This is a three-year programme designed for learners who meet the normal entrance requirements. All modules are core to the programme.