bachelor of science in public finance and accounting

This programme aims to produce finance and accounting professionals with technical and professional competences required to manage and support moden finance and accounting systems. Participants of this programme will study modules that include Financial Accounting, Auditing, Taxation, Financial Strategy, Economics, Practice of Risk Management, Corporate Strategy, and Strategic Human Resource Management amongst others. The generic skills in analysis and problem solving, augmented by understanding of business finance and accounting better places graduates of this programme to enter sectors that include Retail, IT, Sales, Insurance, Banking and Risk management, Financial Consultancy and many others. Therefore graduates will be suited to work as Strategic Human Resource Management, Public Finance, and Public Sector Accounting, amongst others.
Target Group: The target audience for this programme is people who intend to pursue a career in finance and accounting and people who are already practitioners but without requisite degree qualification and wish to climb the corporate ladder in thier profession. This programme is also a route for people who wish to become memebers of professional accounting such as BICA, ACCA, CIMA etc.
Entry Requirements: The normal entry requirement into this programme shall be; BGCSE or equivalent with 36 points (best 6 subjects), including Credit in Mathemetics and Pass in English Or an assessed equivalent entry qualification, which may include Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).