Diploma in Accountancy & Finance (C98)

Course Introduction

Accounting and Finance forms the crucial backbone of all business organisations and is essential to the management of any business. The Diploma in Accountancy & Finance, with its dual emphasis on accounting and finance, offers a wider choice of career and further studies opportunities for our graduates.  As Singapore aims to develop itself into a global accountancy hub, there will always be a strong demand for accounting & finance professionals.

Students will acquire specialised knowledge in the essential business functions of accounting, finance and taxation through carefully selected modules to help them pursue the global standards in accountancy and finance. The ICT application based learning takes centre stage in our course design and delivery. This will prepare our graduates for the challenges of the working world and place them in good stead for flexible career options and further educational advancement.

Students undergo the Teaching Enterprise Project (TEP) to gain practical skills in various operational business processes, to sharpen their communication and interpersonal skills, and to learn about teamwork. Through group projects, they will apply their technical knowledge towards defining, identifying, interpreting, analysing and solving problems. The TEP is complemented by a 10-week Industrial Placement Programme where students are attached to public and private sector organisations.

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Course Aims

This course aims to:

• provide students with a comprehensive broad-based business education through carefully selected core business modules; and an understanding of business process development and operation;

• provide an adequate level of specialisation through careful selection and phasing of technical modules in accountancy and finance within the course;

• enable total student development through a value-added education, training and other capabilities development including developing an entrepreneurial mindset;

• train and develop students in a practice-oriented learning environment such as our unique Teaching Enterprise Project (TEP), Industrial Placement programme (IPP) and case study-based learning;

• enable students to develop essential life-long skills such as creative and logical thinking, problem-solving and analytical abilities, communication, interpersonal and IT skills; and

• develop students with a regional and global mindset who can contribute productively in a borderless business world.

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Opportunities for Graduate

Graduates from this course will find good career opportunities in executive and middle management positions in the areas of financial accounting, cost accounting, management accounting, financial management, auditing, taxation and treasury within organisations in the public and private sectors.

Graduates with good academic achievements may be accepted for degree courses by local and overseas institutions of higher learning at advanced entry levels. They can also expect partial exemptions from the examinations of professional bodies including the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), The Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants (CIMA), UK and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

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