Mrs Nontatu Dumalisile
Chair of Department:
Management Accounting
On behalf of the Department of Management Accounting team, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to our department. I feel very honoured to lead a team of dynamic and dedicated academics and professionals who are committed to academic excellence, innovation, and student success. All our staff members are student-centric and are very passionate about what they do. We are very proud and pleased that you chose to pursue your studies at Unisa’s Department of Management Accounting.
The department exists to equip students with specific competencies in financial management, management decision-making and control, strategy and risk management, data analytics, visualisation techniques, automation, cyber risk and security, and help them to integrate these competencies with pervasive skills, ethics, and professional practice. Qualified management accountants may start their own financial consulting business or join large enterprises as management accountants. Our qualifications are accredited by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), CIMA, SAICA, and other professional accounting bodies.
Even if you joined us as a new student or are returning to further your studies, we regard you as an important part of our growing and diverse academic community. We invite you to register with us and have access to a myriad of opportunities available in the department. We are a very diverse team with a variety of expertise, ready to help you become part of the management accounting mainstream. We always strive for excellence. We are not only focusing on equipping students with technical knowledge, but we are also dedicated to imparting and inspiring ethical and professional conduct as well as practical skills required to address real-world financial and managerial challenges. We are looking forward to having you as part of our academic and professional journey.
We offer the Bachelor of Accounting Sciences in management Accounting (NQF7), Advanced Diploma in Management Accounting (NQF7), Postgraduate Diploma in Management Accounting (NQF8), Honours in Management Accounting (NQF8), Master of Accounting Sciences in Management Accounting (MCompt) (NQF 9), Master of Philosophy in Accounting Sciences Management Accounting (MPhil) (NQF9) and Doctor of Philosophy in Accounting Sciences Management Accounting (NQF10). We will be pleased to welcome you as one of our students in the future. We are an Open Distance eLearning (ODeL) Institution which accommodates both full-time and part-time students.
Welcome to the Department of Management Accounting.
