Department of Accounting

Chair 

Florence Zimunya, Mrs Ndlovu, Ngwenya B

PHILOSOPHY

Accounting is generally considered as the “arm of business”. The emerging changes, challenges and trends in the business world today requires accountants to “add value” to their organisations. It challenges them to improve effectiveness and corporate governance. Therefore the focus of the Accounting profession to meet these challenges. While professional excellence is the motto, the Department inculcates values of diligence, honesty, economy, temperance, ethics and purity, all of which contribute to the making of a total person.

OBJECTIVES

Excellent accounting skills is what the accounting programme is designed to offer business students. Realising that students of accounting may work in management related areas, the programme also nurtures students’ management skills. The objectives of the Department are:
• to address the needs of the public and private sectors by producing a graduate who are practical
• to prepare students for graduate and professional studies
• to develop students’ analytical, inductive, adaptive and communication skills
• to imbue students with Christian values and ethics.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Department of Accounting exists to prepare business students with hands-on-skills and knowledge in accountancy for the diverse sectors of the economy through rigours of problem solving, case study, theory and industrial attachment is concerned from qualified, experienced competent lecturers. We aim to send to the business world quality and proficient graduates and strive for leadership through research, scholarship and continually upgrading our programmes.

DEGREES OFFERED

The Department of Accounting offers the following:
• Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Accounting
• Minor in Accounting
For a Suggested Schedule, see the last section in this Department

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

In addition to satisfying normal Solusi University admission requirements, accounting students are required to have credit or better in mathematics at O-level.
The department accepts a limited number of students based on the Mature Age Exemption, and/or professional qualification and related work experience. Generally, the number of such students shall not exceed two percent of the total student enrolment in Department in a given year (see the section for Mature Age Entrance Requirements in this Bulletin).
Requirements for Minor: Maths at O’ level is needed.

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