Develop your business acumen and leadership skills to run a business or build a new one. This program will equip you to lead more effectively, grow your career, and help to make better decisions for yourself and for your organization, whether as an employee or as a new business owner.

What does being a CA make you?
The Chartered Accountancy qualification opens the door to a vast range of exciting career opportunities, in every sector of business and finance, both in Zimbabwe and internationally. Chartered Accountants are in constant demand both at home and abroad, being recognized for their technical competence, professional standards, and veracity.

 

Different roles or pathways of CAs

BCTA Student Roadmap to CA(Z)

Certificate in Theory of Accounting (CTA)
The Certificate in Theory of Accounting this is a post grad program for aspiring chartered accountants. It is the gate way into the chartered accountants career / Journey. CAA provides ZCTA on a full-time basis as well as on part time. Students enrolled for the program will study in the four accountancy core subjects of Financial Accounting, Auditing and Governance, Management Accounting and Finance and Taxation. For you to successfully complete the program you must pass all 4 subjects in one sitting of which you will then receive a Zimbabwe Certificate of Theory in Accounting issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe(ICAZ).

Applied Financial Accounting and Reporting
Financial accounting is the field of accounting concerned with the summary, analysis and reporting of financial transactions pertaining to a business. This involves the preparation of financial statements available public consumption. Stockholders, suppliers, banks, employees, government agencies, business owners, and other stakeholders are examples of people interested in receiving such information for decision making purposes. Financial accounting is governed by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). It includes the standards, conventions, and rules that accountants follow in recording and summarizing and in the preparation of financial statements. IFRS are issued by the International Accounting Standards (IASs).

Applied Auditing and Governance
Auditing aims to develop knowledge and understanding of the process of carrying out the assurance engagement and its application in the context of the professional regulatory framework. Assurance engagements involve the expression of an opinion, which is “a conclusion designed to enhance the degree of confidence of the intended users other than the responsible party about the outcome of the evaluation or measurement of a subject matter against criteria” (Assurance Framework of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB)). Under Governance students learn about best practices of good corporate governance.

Applied Taxation
This course includes the taxation of an individual or an entity both of which are complex areas. In addition, the course seeks to address tax planning opportunities to reduce the tax burden while remaining in compliance with laws and regulations.

Applied Management Accounting and Finance
Management Accounting and Finance isdivided into two sections, Corporate Finance, and Management Accounting. Although different focuses the two sections complement one another and are based on many common principles. The two sections should be viewed as being inextricably linked. Corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures have become commonplace in our global environment. Entities are frequently faced with financing choices which have strategic consequences. Their managers must make capital structure decisions, evaluate short term and long-term financing needs, and choose finance tools that are appropriate to the entity’s strategic direction and to the competitive environment within which it operates.

CTA FULL TIME

The CTA full-time program was launched in 2013 with a student compliment of 21. Over the years the program has seen tremendous growth seeing pick number of 93 students in 2021, which speaks volumes about its success to date. There are 2 intakes for this course per year i.e. from January to October/November and the other one from July to April/May.

 

Below is a brief summary of the operational aspects with regards the Full-time CTA program:

Enrolment
There are 2 enrolment periods for the CTA Full Time program (January intake and July Intake). Applications into the program for the January intake open from August to November of each year, with student’s registrations done over December and January. For the CTA Full Time July intake application window open in March and closes in May with registration done over June and July.

Applicants with an accounting degree class 2.2 or better,  CGI (formerly CIS) or ACCA which is not more than 3 years old, are eligible to apply for the full-time CTA program (please refer to the entry requirements section for further/full details.)

Lectures
As indicated by the name of the program, students who enrol for the program are expected to be attending classes on a full-time basis. Lecture delivery is blended, with a combination of physical and online lectures. The lecture classes run from Mondays’ to Fridays’ during the day and lectures are done in 2 hourly blocks. The morning session runs from 8:45hrs to 10:45hrs with a mid-morning break of 30mins and the afternoon session runs from 13:15hrs to 14:45hrs
All students registered for the CTA full-time  programs are expected to attend a minimum of 80% of all lecture sessions for them to be eligible to sit for the end of year exams.

Location
Lectures and examinations for the CTA full-time program are held at our Harare campus which is located on 2nd floor Strachans Building 66 Nelson Mandela Avenue, Harare.

Duration
Students go through the CTA full-time program over a 1-year period broken down into semester 1 and semester 2

CTA PART TIME

The CTA part-time program was launched in 2015 to mainly cater for those students who are employed and are not able to enrol for the full-time program. The program has been such a big hit as indicated by the student compliment of 120 in its first year of running. To date there are 264 enrolled under part-time.

Below is a brief summary of the operational aspects with regards the Part-time CTA program:

Enrolment
There is only one intake for the CTA Part Time enrolment per year and applications are normally opened from August to November of each year, with student’s registrations done over December and January.

Applicants with an accounting degree or CIS or CIMA or ACCA which is not more than 5 years old, are eligible to apply for the full-time CTA program (please refer to the entry requirements section for further/full details.)

Lectures
Lecture delivery is blended, with a combination of physical and online lectures. Lectures for the part-time students are done in blocks which are done over the weekend, on Saturdays and Sundays. To compliment these block lecture sessions students also receive course modules which contain their course notes and tutorial questions. Students also receive video lecture material given the limited contact me they normally have with the lecturing teams.

 Location
Lectures and examinations for the part-time CTA program are held at our Harare campus and our mobile campus in Bulawayo.

Duration
Students go through the CTA part-time program over a two-year period broken down into CTA 1 and CTA 2.