COURSE: BCOM IN INFORMATICS

The defining characteristic of this degree is that it combines business and financial education with information technology skills, a rare combination in South Africa. This blend is growing in importance as more and more organisations move from manual to automated financial, business and accounting systems. This degree is ideally suited to this convergence of business and technology.

Type: undergraduate degree

Duration: 3 years part time

Compulsory Subjects

First year subjects:

• Introduction to the economic and management environment


• Economics


• Business management


• Accounting concepts, principles and procedures


• Accounting reporting


• Introduction to Business Information Systems

Second year subjects:

• Introduction to programming


• Systems analysis and design methods


• Object-oriented concepts


• Practical accounting data processing


• General management


• The internal auditing process

Third year subjects:

• Principles of databases


• Advanced systems development


• Computer networks

Careers: business systems developer, database designer, business software project manager.

Source: www.unisa.ac.za

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