Firstly, let's look at the objectives:
The syllabus is intended to encourage courses that will enable students to:
- develop an ability to apply accounting concepts, principles and practices;
- understand the role of accounting as an information system for monitoring, problem solving and decision making and the place of accounting in changing economic,social and technological environments;
- develop a critical and analytical approach to examining and evaluating accounting policies and practices;
- develop skills of communication, analysis, interpretation and presentation of both qualitative and quantitative accounting information
Next, as for the assessment objectives:
Candidates are expected to:
- DEMONSTRATE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING of the accounting procedures and practices in the specified content and the principles on which these are based;
- APPLY knowledge and understanding of accounting procedures, practices and principles to familiar and novel situations;
- SELECT, ORDER, ANALYSE and PRESENT information in an appropriate accounting form;
- PRESENT REASONED EXPLANATIONS, understand implications and communicate them in a clear and logical manner;
- MAKE JUDGEMENTS, recommendations and decisions based on accounting information and principles.
- Note that the Multiple Choice components (Papers 1 and 3) seek to test the above Assessment Objectives item 1, 2 and 3 and
- The written papers (Papers 2 and 4) will seek to test mainly Assessment Objectives1, 2 and 3, but to a lesser extent will also test Assessment Objectives 4 and 5.
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