20 Feb 1986 Additional finance and accountancy papers available at Lincoln College

Students starting commerce degrees at Lincoln University College this year can choose to take finance and accounting subjects that will qualify them for entry into the New Zealand Society
of Accountants.

Professor Roger Juchau, Professor of Finance and Accounting at the college, said the first accounting students would graduate from Lincoln in 1989.

Some might choose to take further finance and accounting subjects in postgraduate study.

Those students who passed in finance and accounting would not have to sit the accounts' society professional examination.

Students will take accounting in the second and third years of study, and also take specialized subjects in the commerce degree.

In their first year they will study commerce and science subjects along with other commerce students.

The finance and accounting subjects take in the latest developments in curriculum, tuition and assessment.

Agricultural economics, farm and horticulture management, valuation and property management, financial management, applied computing and marketing are commerce specializations being offered or likely to be offered.

Auditing and taxation will be taught by specialists from outside the college.

Professor Juchau said a student concentrating mainly on finance and accounting would gain a degree that had 30 per cent accounting and 12½ per cent finance.

Accounting would take in auditing and taxation.

Holding accounting to 30 per cent of the degree allowed a student to develop in other commerce-related subjects.

"The first flow of Lincoln College accounting graduates in 1989 would be able to make a quality contribution to finance manpower in New Zealand," Professor Juchau said.

Further information from Professor Roger Juchau, Finance and Accounting, Lincoln College 8150