New Zealand Diploma in Business accounting and finance prescriptions

Closed 21 Mar 2012

Background

In December 2010 the National Advisory Committee for Business Studies endorsed a schedule for limited, technical reviews of all national NZDipBus prescriptions to be held between 2011 and 2013.  Reviews will be in subject groups such as accounting, computing, management, marketing, economics and small business.

The following accounting and finance prescriptions are scheduled for review during the first half of 2012:

• 400 Accounting Principles
• 501 Accounting Practices
• 601 Financial Accounting
• 602 Management Accounting
• 603 Business Finance
• 605 Internal Auditing
• 606 Taxation.

Full reviews of all prescriptions will be deferred until the mandatory review of business qualifications is completed.

Review process

The first prescription review meeting for the accounting prescription review team is proposed for 27 and 28 March and will be in held in Wellington.  Applicants should state their availability for these dates.  At the meeting, consultation drafts of the reviewed prescriptions will be finalised and subsequently distributed to all TEOs and other interested parties.

The second meeting (if necessary) will be held in late May or early June 2012, either in Wellington or by conference call, depending on the nature of feedback on the review drafts.

Tertiary Assessment and Moderation (TAM) expects to be able to release the final version of the reviewed prescriptions by July (subject to National Advisory Committee for Business Studies endorsement).

Nominations for prescription reviewers

If you would like to be in one of the prescription review teams, please send a prescription review nomination form (DOC, 285KB) and a CV to TAM by Thursday 1 March 2012.

Feedback

NZQA invites feedback on the prescriptions scheduled for review.  Please email any comments on the prescriptions to TAM using the prescription feedback form (PDF, 163KB) by Wednesday 21 March 2012.