At Emeris, School of Finance and Accounting, pursuing a career as a chartered or professional accountant is stimulating and fast-paced. Ambition, attention to detail and the ability to process financial information quickly and accurately are highly valued and handsomely rewarded. The Faculty of Commerce’s School of Finance and Accounting prepares students for such a career by delivering a student-centric accounting programme that facilitates learning in all disciplines. The faculty’s finance & accounting IIE qualifications embrace the core academic competencies of professional accounting frameworks.
As a student you will study content relevant to your chosen qualification, you will be inspired by professionally qualified lecturers who are passionate about the training of accountants, and you will develop lifelong learning skills to prepare you for the highly competitive and ever-evolving world of business.
Graduates from the accounting programmes of the School of Finance and Accounting are highly sought after by the accounting profession for their broad range of skills and competences beyond the academic content of the programmes. Through robust academic material and integrated teaching and learning practices, the accounting programmes develop graduates who are critical thinkers, effective communicators, ethically and socially aware and capable of succeeding in a diverse range of industries.
Dominique Nupen
Dean: Faculty of Commerce
Small class sizes ensure meaningful engagement between students and lecturers.
Graduates are prepared for the professional working environment through exposure to a diverse range of professional engagements and activities during the academic year.
Our programmes develop skills necessary to succeed as an accounting professional in the business world including strategic decision making, communication and presentation, digital literacy and personal resilience and teamwork.
Academic programmes are not constrained by module boundaries. Academic material and teaching practices allow students to think beyond the content of the modules and to apply their knowledge and skills to any business or personal context.
At Emeris there are programmes you can study in-person on campus (Contact) or remotely (Distance)
An educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education
Formed by the strategic evolution of The IIE's Varsity College, IIE MSA, Vega and
the School of Hospitality and Service Management, uniting under the Emeris name.
Emeris is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd which is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997 (reg. no. 2007/HE07/002). Company registration number: 1987/004754/07. View certificate here.
