Finance and Accounting

Objectives

• Provide competent instruction in relevant accounting techniques and issues
• Support students in experiential learning to foster their academic, career and personal growth
• Equip our students with advanced analytical skills in economics and statistics
• Provide students with skills to enable them pursue a career in the public and private sectors and remain internationally competitive
• Equip our students with skills that will enable them pursue a career in research and contribute to national and international discourse about economies around the world.
• Prepare students for further studies in the field of economics and statistics or a related field.

Mission

We are committed to providing the highest levels of excellence in teaching and we thrive to prepare our undergraduate and post graduate students to become productive and contributing members of the society. We strongly believe in the ideals of research and the opportunities it provides in the field of finance and accounting and work tirelessly to ensure we pursue local and international collaborations to keep abreast of the latest in this field. Furthermore, in the department of finance and accounting, we run a market driven curriculum which ensures that we are constantly discussing and addressing real-life national and regional issues in the classroom, to prepare our students and ensure they understand the expectations and guiding principles in this field of endeavor.

Vision

To provide our students with an exceptional learning experience in Finance and Accounting and to become the institution of  first choice for people seeking a career in Accounting, government ministries, international banking and many more.

Philosophy

• Student focused: We value excellence in teaching and learning and make an impact on students with attentive advising, innovative curriculum and market orientation.
• Experientially engaged: We value experiential learning, making productive collaborations with business leaders in the region.
• Collaboratively inclined: We are  actively seek out and engage local and international partners in academia, public institutions, private and non-governmental institutions to ensure that we keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of business management. It also ensures were are preparing our students to be relevant in their respective specializations when they complete their programs with us.
• Mutual respect: we respect and acknowledge the diversity of our faculty members and students and strongly belief that these diversity is instrumental in preparing our students for the future where boundaries are blurred and ideas migrate from one end of the globe to the other. We appreciate diversity of not just people, but also diversity of thoughts, ideas and perspectives.
• Ethically oriented: Our conduct reflects the highest ethical and professional standards and our curriculum emphasizes the importance of ethics and social responsibility in business.

Core Values

• Integrity and professionalism 
  
• Transparency and accountability
• Experiential learning 
• Ethical uprightness