College of Business and Economics Annual Report 2017 42 STRUCTURE The School of Accounting (SoA) consists of two departments: • Accountancy, led by Prof Ben Marx, and • Commercial Accounting, led by Ms Lulama Boyce. ENROLMENT The SoA enrolled 8 322 students in 2017 (representing 32% of total CBE enrolment) of whom 303 (4%) in continuing education programmes, 7 037 (85%) in subsidised undergraduate programmes and 592 (11%) in subsidised postgraduate programmes. Of these, 7% are international enrolments. Accordingly, the School’s subsidised enrolments equates to 5 382 full-time equivalents. ACCREDITATION, AFFILIATIONS AND RANKINGS Professional bodies accrediting our qualifications include the: • South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA). Although SAICA is a national professional body, an international dimension exists by virtue of the reciprocity agreements between itself and several foreign professional accounting bodies that allow South African candidates qualifying as chartered accountants to work in various other countries. • Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) • Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) • South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA) • South African Institute of Tax Practitioners (SAIT) As far as international affiliations are concerned, Prof Amanda Dempsey serves as a committee member of the Consultative Advisory Group (CAG) of the International Accounting Education Standard Board (IAESB) of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). SUBSIDISED PROGRAMMES Popular and industry-recognised programmes and their enrolment in 2017 follow: PROGRAMME ENROLMENT DIPLOMA Diploma: Accountancy 2 619 DEGREES Bachelor of Accounting 465 BCom: Accounting 2 007 POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMAS Postgraduate Diploma: Financial Management 109 Postgraduate Diploma: Accounting 165 Postgraduate Diploma: Accounting Sciences 497
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