Course details

No business can thrive without a team of competent accounting and finance professionals. Pursuing a diploma in accountancy is the first step you can take towards becoming an accounting professional or a Chartered Accountant (CA).

AT the Diploma in Accountancy (DAC) course, you will learn that accounting is not just about "number crunching".  It involves a holistic education that will equip you with strong accounting knowledge, train you to acquire critical thinking and analytical skills, develop leadership abilities and build a strong sense of social responsibility.

This qualification can offer you good job stability, and open the doors to a wide range of career options, in many persified fields such as accounting, auditing, banking, finance and taxation.

Above all, we educate you with the right attitude to excel.

Course Highlights

  • Internship opportunities with the Big Four professional firms and reputable companies.
  • Overseas exposure via study trips and overseas immersion programmes.
  • Tie-up with Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) provides opportunity to acquire an additional diploma qualification.
  • Close partnerships with professional bodies such as ICAEW and ACCA.
  • Flexible elective options to choose from in final year of study.
  • Variety of student activities and events that promote vibrant student life and bonding

MODULE NAME

First Year

  • Statistics for Business
  • Management and Organisational Behaviour
  • Fundamentals of Marketing
  • Microeconomics
  • Macroeconomics
  • Principles of Accounting
  • Discovering Business and Enterprise
  • Communicating for Project Effectiveness
  • Critical Reasoning and Argumentation
  • Critical Reasoning and Persuasion
  • Information Technology For Business

Second Year

  • Financial Analysis and Management
  • Business Law
  • Taxation I
  • Taxation II
  • Auditing II
  • Company Law
  • Accounting Information Systems
  • Cost Accounting
  • Financial Accounting
  • Auditing I
  • Social Innovation Project or Overseas Social Innovation Project
  • General Education 3

Third Year

  • Advanced Financial Accounting I
  • Personal and Social Effectiveness Skills for Accountants
  • Internship
  • Advanced Financial Accounting II
  • Management Accounting
  • Communicating for Professional Effectiveness
  • *Elective Module
  • *Elective Module

# Integrated Accounting Practice Option

  • Business Analytics
  • Integrated Accounting Practice

# Information Technology Option

  • Web Publishing
  • Fundamentals of Electronic Business
  • Fundamentals of Spreadsheet Programming

# International Business Option

  • Global Business Environment
  • Principles of Import-Export Trade
  • Principle of Global Marketing

# Finance Option

  • Financial Markets
  • Investment
  • International Trade Finance and Documentation

Other Elective Modules

  • Chinese Business Research and Immersion
  • Governance and Audit Practicum
  • ASEAN Business Research and Immersion
  • Mathematics for Business
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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