Postgraduate Diploma in Management (Financial Accounting)

The Accounting Graduates' Bridging Course

Do you wish to become a CA (SA)?

The career opportunities for chartered accountants makes this professional qualification highly desirable.

Do you have:

• an accounting degree (e.g. BCom, BACC).

The University of Cape Town offers a special one-year full-time bridging course diploma, known as the Accounting Graduates' Bridging Course, which is designed to prepare students who have an accounting major degree for a career in the accounting profession.

On successful completion of the Accounting Graduates' Bridging Course students will be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Management (Financial Accounting).

Students who decide to proceed to the Chartered Accountant qualification and meet the entrance criteria, proceed to the Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (PGDA) in the following year.

If you wish to become a Chartered Accountant:

The bridging course provides an excellent preparation for the final year, the Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting (PGDA), which is done in the second year. This is followed by a three-year training contract with an approved auditing firm or an approved training organisation in commerce and industry. During the training contract you must complete a specialist course in either auditing or financial management and must write the qualifying examinations to become a chartered accountant.