DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING

Mission Statement

The B.Sc. programme in Accounting is designed to produce graduates with an ideal platform for a career in accountancy and finance. It should provide students with a more in-depth knowledge and practical skills required to deal with a wide range of accounting and financial operations.

Objectives of the B.Sc. in Accounting

The graduate of the B.Sc. in accounting programme should be able to:

• Understand the concepts and conventions on which financial accounting is based;
• Identify and record all related business data.
• Acquire skills and understanding needed to prepare financial statements for various business units.
• Report the movement of financial resources within, into and out of the firm for management to understand the results of its decisions and actions.
• Obtain a good understanding of financial information such as that appearing on standard financial statements
• Acquire knowledge of cost accounting so as to be able to prepare management accounts for decision making purposes;
• Acquire audit and control knowledge needed for both internal and external audit of organizational activities;
• Preparing financial reports, etc.

Expected Outcomes

The programme is expected to produce graduates who are competent in

• Taking up employment as middle-level staff in financial and non financial institutions;
• Being rapidly operational with customers’ services, foreign transaction services and financial institutions management services;
• Mastering money exchange transaction in big financial markets;
• Creating and managing small and medium sized enterprises;
• Holding managerial positions in the rapidly growing microfinance sector;
• Holding positions in enterprises and financial institutions, etc.