The Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting qualification is intended for learners who wish to pursue the chartered accountancy route and also to advance in the academic space with a strong technical proficiency in the accountancy space. The qualification is designed to provide learners with technical integrated knowledge, other enabling competencies and skills related to accounting and finance that will enable them to articulate into the highest levels of the professional accounting field as well as the academic space. This will be achieved by strengthening the learner's accounting and related knowledge as the learner undertakes advanced application and reflection of current accounting trends, as well as practicing specialist skills and technical competence in the field of accounting and its related disciplines.

Career Opportunities:
• Financial Manager
• Financial Accountant
• Internal & External Auditor
• Financial Analyst

Prospective students must hold a SAICA-endorsed CA(SA) undergraduate bachelor qualification with the following minimum requirements:

• 54% average mark for the final year; and
• 52% minimum mark for each module at final year; and
• The final year completed in one examination sitting.

Teaching and learning activities are structured such that they are centred around the student and enable the student to drive their own learning. The strategy is largely informed and aligned with the competencies as per the SAICA CA of the Future competency framework. The focus is on the student learning experiences and opportunities are created for development via feedback. Students must be prepared to work independently using their own initiatives in order to develop the ability to reason methodically and think critically.

Students are assessed using a variety of assessments mix and tools. This comes in the form of objective tests, assignments, group projects, formal term tests and summative examinations at the end of each semester.

Students must pass a sufficient number of modules to obtain a minimum level of credits per year as per the department and university progression rules.

Prior learning shall be recognised subject to the requirements of each programme as per WSU’s Recognition of Prior Learning Policy (RPL).

Students should take specific note of the WSU's General Rules & Regulations (specifically rules G7-G11) on re-admission and exclusion of students to undergraduate programmes.