Diploma in Accounting & Finance

Course Code: DAF

Level: Diploma

Duration: 2 Years

Accounting and finance is the life blood of any business. It is the area that facilitates all other business activities. Such activities include payment of salaries, purchase of materials, purchase of equipment and other capital expenditures. It is very important that an organization employs staff with appropriate accounting and Finance skills, in order to make the right entries for every transaction, post them to ledgers, prepare final statements of accounts, and make interpretations of these reports to management. The course also addresses finance related issues such as investment decisions, finance decisions, working capital management, and ability to test the financial health of a Business.

This program is mainly targeting secondary school leavers and certificate level holders, who seek either a higher-level qualification in order the enhance their employment prospects, or who need a strong foundation qualification in banking and finance studies to prepare them for University studies in business and management programmes.

MODULES

YEAR I SEMESTER I

• DBA111 Introduction to Business Administration
• DAF112 Financial Accounting I
• DBA113 Introduction to Economics
• DCS111 Introduction to Computing & IT
• DJM115 Communications Skills

YEAR I SEMESTER II

• DAF121 Financial Accounting II
• DAF122 Quantitative Methods
• DAF123 Business Finance
• DBA124 Business Economics
• DBA125 Principles of management

YEAR II SEMESTER I

• DAF211 Taxation
• DTH211 Customer Service Management
• DBA213 Business law
• DBA214 Research Methodology
• DAF215 Computerized Accounting

YEAR II SEMESTER II

• DAF221 Advanced Accounting
• DAF222 Audit theory
• DAF223 Cost Accounting
• DEI221 Entrepreneurship Skills
• DAF225 Final Year Project/Thesis

Industrial training

• DAF226 Industrial Attachment (8 weeks)

CAREER PATHS

Students who undertake this program will have relatively wider Accounting and Financial Services employment opportunities, ranging from banking and sales positions, financial advisers and analyst positions. Typically, the graduates can work in commercial banks, microfinance and other non-bank financial institutions, Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), business enterprises and establishments, among other sectors with need for accounting and financial service professionals to account and manage their portfolios and statements and also to audit and regulate financial operations and performance.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Option A

The Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) with at least 1 principal pass and 2 subsidiary passes obtained at the same sitting or its equivalent

OR: A Certificate from a recognized institution of learning within the same, or in a related field.

Option B

The Uganda Certificate of Education (UCE) with at least 5 credits obtained at the same sitting, or it’s equivalent.

COURSE FEES (PER ACADEMIC YEAR)

Semester I

Semester II