BS Accounting and Finance

• Bachelor

  Degree

• English

  Language of instructions

• 4 years

  Years of study

• Full-time

  Study mode

• Pakistan, Karachi

  Location

BS in Accounting and Finance prepares graduates for professional careers in finance and accounting in the corporate and financial sectors. The program requires the completion of 144 credit hours of course work including 03 credit hour internship of at least eight weeks in an approved firm. The students need to complete 33 credit hours of general education courses, 12 credit hours of distribution courses, 75 credit hours of Finance and Accounting related core courses and 18 credit hours elective courses. Students must select either Accounting or Finance as their major and minor in the seventh semester and will be required to choose four elective courses from their selected major and two elective courses as their minor. Furthermore, students are required to do a Capstone Project of 03 Credit hours. All of program courses are designed with the input from industry practitioners to develop well-rounded professionals who are able to lead the industry in the coming years. Graduates of this program are usually recruited in the fields of investment, portfolio, debt and equity market, audit, financial accounting, banking, research as well as other fields offered by financial institutions. Students of this program can avail up to eight module exemption in ACCA from ACCA Accelerated Program with IoBM. Similarly, students can avail 9 exemptions from ICMAP. CFA Institute USA recognizes this program and has given IoBM an affiliated university status. Hence, students can avail CFA scholarship given under the University Affiliation Program of CFA Institute. Moreover, ICAP recognizes IoBM as Relevant Degree Awarding Institute (RDA) enabling students to get exemption from all four papers of Assessment of Fundamental Competencies (AFC) and the first four papers of Certificate in Accounting and Finance (CAF).