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Cost Accounting

  • Course Number: 3.22209
  • Credit Points: 3
  • Year of Study: 2
  • Semester: 1

This course concerns with fundamental cost concepts, behaviour and analysis the use of cost information for decision making. Understanding these principles and techniques are vital to understand management accounting practice. The course covers recognition of cost components of a product such as material, labour and overheads, job costing techniques, process costing, batch costing and service costing, joint costing, by-products, marginal costing, CVP analysis, price decisions and cost

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Finance

  • Course Number: 3.20601
  • Credit Points: 3
  • Year of Study: 2
  • Semester: 1
This course looks at competing theories on analysing behaviours of households and firms in making financing and investment decisions. The construction of models for valuation of financial assets too is explored. The valuation of assets comes to the fore under conditions of risk and uncertainty where households invest to maximise their wealth. This in turn means maximising one’s life time consumption and therefore their utility. The basic principles are covered in this course with their

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Taxation

  • Course Number: 3.22208
  • Credit Points: 3
  • Year of Study: 2
  • Semester: 2

This course is aimed at equipping the students with the basic principles of taxation in society, aims of taxation and the underlying benefits and incentives provided through taxation. As trainee accountants and potential accountants, the students

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Cost Accounting & Budgeting II

  • Course Number: 3.22204
  • Credit Points: 3
  • Year of Study: 2
  • Semester: 2

The course aims to complete the development of cost accounting skills  required by an Accounting paraprofessional with special reference to the techniques of budgeting and budgetary control. The topics covered include:

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Financial Accounting II

  • Course Number: 3.22202
  • Credit Points: 3
  • Year of Study: 2
  • Semester: 2

The aim of the course is to develop an understanding of the principles and practices of financial accounting and to develop the practical skill and professional competence of an Accounting Technician. The topics include consolidations for group of

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Accounting for Non - Accountants

  • Course Number: 3.12203
  • Credit Points: 3
  • Year of Study: 1
  • Semester: 2

This is an enrichment course designed for students not enrolled in SBPP. This course is a watered down version of 3.12201 and 3.12202

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  1. Auditing
  2. Elements of Information Systems
  3. Cost Accounting & Budgeting I
  4. Financial Accounting I

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