Program Description

The Accountancy curricular programs provide a foundation of professional knowledge, professional skills, professional values, ethics, and attitudes that enable students to continue to learn and adapt to change throughout their professional lives. The BS Accountancy Program is a 5-year board program that qualifies the graduate to take the CPA Licensure examinations and to render professional services in any of the four sectors of the Accountancy Profession. The BS Accounting Technology Program is a non-board program that addresses the manpower requirements of the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Industry. It is the only acceptable ladder to the BSA program per CHED rules, thus, giving the graduate of the program an opportunity to earn two diplomas.

In the face of the increasing and fast-paced changes in the world of work, it is essential that accounting students develop and maintain an attitude of learning to learn, to maintain their competence later as professional accountants who have the ability to work with others in a consultative process and in cross-cultural and cross-border setting. Thus, the Accountancy curricular programs:

1. Adopt the International Education standards issued by the International Federation of Accountants;

2. Adopt the Core Competency Framework for Entry to the Philippine Accountancy Profession issued by the Board of Accountancy. This framework articulates the knowledge, skills, and professional values that accounting graduates need to successfully face the challenges of today’s changing environment

3. Adopt the requirements of the UNCTAD Global Curriculum

4. Adopt the Liberal Education core curriculum of St. Scholastica’s College that enables its Benedictine graduates to become self-fulfilled women of character who are “persons-for-others”, living out ora et labora, with a passion for truth and justice to transform society.

5. Considered the “best practices” from accountancy schools worldwide.

Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (BSA)

The Bachelor of Science in Accountancy Program equips students with technical proficiency in accounting and information technology that is sufficient enough to prepare them for the multi-cultural environment and globalization of business. The Program is intensive enough to enable students to gain professional knowledge in the following areas of competencies: accounting and finance, organizations and business, and information technology.

The General Education component supports the holistic formation of accounting students and contributes to the development of a “liberally educated” professional with a strong and sincere commitment to service. It complements the non-professional knowledge as well as the intellectual, personal, interpersonal, communication, organizational and management skills.

The Business Education component provides students the ability to relate accounting to the issues that confront management business and public enterprises. It equips student with sufficient understanding of how the organizations function in the practical context of the business environment and how international enterprises operate. It enables them to appreciate the importance of ethics in business.

Bachelor of Science in Accounting Technology (BSAcT)

The Bachelor of Science in Accounting Technology (BSAcT) Program produces competent professional accountants who are capable of making a positive contribution over their lifetimes to the profession and society in which they work. It provides students the foundation of professional knowledge, professional skills, and professional values, ethics and attitudes that enable them to continue to learn and adapt to change throughout their professional lives. It enables professional accountants to identify problems, know where to find this knowledge and know how to apply it in an ethical manner to achieve appropriate solutions.

The Program is a non-board Program for accounting technologists who would supply the needs of Business Process Outsourcing for finance and accounting services. It has the same subject offerings as that of the BSA Program from the first to the third academic years, except board-related subjects such as Auditing, Management Consultancy, certain business law and Integrated Accounting subjects. Instead of these subjects, the Program offers Information Technology subjects. It is an acceptable ladder to the BSA Program, should the student later on decide and qualify for the BSA Program.