Diploma: Public Sector Accounting

Course details

This national qualification will provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills required as a Technical Public Accountant in the public sector.

Course Content

Financial Statements

• Depreciable asset disposal
•  Year-end adjustments
•  Preparation and analysis of financial statements for sole proprietorships, partnerships, close corporations and companies
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Cost and Management Accounting

• Accounting for a manufacturing concern
• Break-even analysis; cost-volume-profit analysis
• Budgeting and standard costing
• Financial management
• Business ethics

Technical Public Accounting

•  Basic economic principles
•  Management information systems
•  Risk management in the Public sector
•  Public sector financial statements
•  Risk management in the Public sector
•  Performance management in the Public sector
•  Project management in the Public sector

Business Law and Accounting Control

•  Basic contract law
•  Insolvency law
•  Estate planning
•  Internal and computer auditing

Assessment

You are required to register directly with the ICB for exams. You are required to submit your assignments to the ICB for marking and pass them successfully. The assignments are in the form of a portfolio of evidence (POE) and will be sent to you by the ICB. You are also required to write and pass four ICB formal exams. Exams are written in February, May, August and November. Please contact the ICB for further information on membership and exam registration.