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Academics: Undergraduate Courses
HNC & HND in Accounting
Validated by James Watt College of Further & Higher Education, Scotland, UK
This highly regarded Hands-On 100% assignment and competency based course aims to provide you with the sound foundation skills necessary to pursue a career in Accountancy. It has been designed with the approval of the major Accountancy bodies in the UK, so you can be sure that the skills you learn will give you the confidence to cope with the tasks you are likely to be asked to do when you start working within the Accounting section of any type of business. The course also aims to provide you with the opportunity to advance rapidly towards a Professional Accounting qualification.
Course Content
In the first year you will learn the basics of recording all the financial transactions of a business correctly and using this information to calculate whether a particular business has made a profit. You will learn how to solve financial problems and put together financial information which, will help managers run their business efficiently and to make important business decisions. You will also learn to appreciate the wider influences on businesses by looking at the impact legal and economic change has on them. Finally, you will gain the computer skills needed to operate effectively in an Accounting environment.
In year 2 you will build on your foundation skills by learning to deal with more complex financial reporting, more complex business decisions and learn to appreciate the issues involved in the financial management of the organisation. You will also learn to calculate tax for individuals as well as companies and look at the fundamentals of what is involved in auditing a company. Law will again be explored but this time from the area of most concern to accountants, namely Company Law. Finally you will develop your understanding of the role IT plays in developing accounting systems for organisations.
Careers and Progression
You should expect to find work in a wide variety of accounting and/or financial environments for example: a trainee accountant position within large organisations supervisory role within organisations who need someone to manage their accounting department trainee assistant to Accountants in CA offices positions within banks, building societies and other financial services areas
Alternatively, you may wish to use the qualification to enter university at year 3 level where you can pursue a degree in Accountancy which could lead to the Professional qualifications.
Joining this Course
If you are a school-leaver, then you will need to have at least 3 SPM credits plus a short foundation course to enter this program. If you are over 21 years of age, then you may have other qualifications or training and/or appropriate work experience which would be suitable for entry to this programme.
Modules
Year 1
Introduction to Financial Accounting
Quantitative Methods
Fudamental Cost Accounting Technology
Using Financial & Management Accounting Software
Information Technology Application
Micro Economic Environment
Macro Economic Environment
Business Law
Year 2
Financial Resource Management
Principle of Malaysian Taxation
Corporate Accounting
Cost & Management Accounting
Company Law
Auditing
Management Information Systems
Malaysian Corporate Enviornment & Global Economics
Duration
Full-time: 2 Years, 4 days a week
Part-time: 2 Years, 2/3 days a week
Assessment
100% Coursework
Progression
Qualify as an Associate Member
of the National Institute of Accountants, Australia (NIA)
leading onto the Master of Commerce
(Professional Accounting) Programme from the
University of New England in Australia
OR
Year 3 BA (Hons) Accounting & Finance from a U.K. University
ACCA / CIMA with many subject exemptions
OR
Entrepreneurial MBA from the Entrepreneurship Institute of Australia
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