Overview
Key facts
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg's Financial Accounting course aims to provide bookkeepers and junior employees in corporations with the necessary competence to process journals into a trial balance and generate financial reports.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Accounting equation and debits and credits in relation to this.
- Processing journals into subsidiary ledgers and the general ledger.
- Extract a trial balance and prepare financial reports from this.
- Value added tax and the impact on bookkeeping.
- Legal entities – sole proprietors, partnerships, close corporations, and limited companies.
- Ratio analysis of income statement and balance sheet.
- Cash flow
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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February: Wednesdays 17:30 – 19:30
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Disciplines
Finance Accounting View 22 other Short Courses in Finance in South AfricaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
This course is aimed at participants who need a knowledge of basic financial accounting. It is aimed at individuals without a previous degree and who would not be interested in or qualify to register for a formal BCom degree. It will also provide current participants in the Basic Business Accounting course with a ‘step-up’ course.
Tuition Fee
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International
12400 ZAR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 12400 ZAR for the full programme during 12 months. -
National
12400 ZAR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 12400 ZAR for the full programme during 12 months.
Living costs for Johannesburg
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.