The University of Ghana Business School has launched an accounting software to assist students cope with the required technological skills require by industries .
In an interview with the Dean of the Business School, Prof. Justice Bawole revealed that traditional Accounting requires that students have to be trained in bookkeeping records, using the manual academic system thereby, ending up training students who cannot cope with the modern usage of technology in the various industries.
He disclosed that the school through its feedback mechanisms receives companies unique accounting standards which students must obtained before entering the job market.
“We have therefore restrategised as a school, and have decided to equip students with technological skills with a curriculum of several accounting software that would be used to train students on how to use them”.
This he indicated, would prepare students for the any industry. “So if you recruit a student from the Business School who has done BSC Administration Accounting option, you are rest assured of the necessary competencies to connect and work in harmony with your accounting team and give you value”.
The launch of the accounting curriculum software he mentioned, would help reduce the time spent by students to integrate into companies and also help reduce the amount of money used to train staff.
Prof. Bawole averred that the Business School has a set of computers to support students who don’t have one.
According to him, Lecturers have created scenarios for students and taken them through the processes of how to use the various components of the software so that, by the time they leave school, they would be confident and useful to companies that need their services.
Prof. Justice Bawole indicated that the Business School provides students with the practical component in their coursework and makes sure they study the practical teaching which gives them the foundation.
“So we are not doing the theory, we are doing the practical itself. The theory of the practice is that we will open the door and say, if you go do this, do that. So, we have taken steps to actually procure laptops. Currently, we have over 200 laptops. So at any point in time 200 students learning have a laptop.
Every weekend, we do three sessions on Friday, and three sessions on Saturday. So three sessions on Friday of 200 means that, you have 600 students at a time and on the following day, 600 students. So we are expanding to make sure that every student gets to experience it”.
