Pursuing a diploma in accountancy is the first step you can take towards becoming a professional or certified public accountant (CPA). This qualification can offer you good job stability, and open the doors to a wide rangeof career options, in many diversified fields such as accounting, auditing, banking, finance and taxation. You can look forward to excellent job prospectsgood starting salaries and fast career progressions, with the strong technical skills that you will acquire when you take up this diploma course.
Why the Singapore Polytechnic Diploma in Accountancy (SP-DAC)?
The focus of the SP-DAC course is to train you become a value creator in business. On top of the technical accounting skills, we focus on giving you that extra edge by infusing design thinking and business innovation into the curriculum.
1) Well-established and widely recognised qualification:
The SP-DAC Curriculum is academically rigorous, and specially designed to train technically competent young accountants of the future. We receive the most credit exemptions from professional accounting bodies like the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), and various universities, due to our excellent academic curriculum.
2) Flexibility of Curriculum:
We recognise that students have a variety of interests, and the SP-DAC curriculum offers flexibility to suit the interests of different students. We offer a basket of electives in your final year of study, in the following areas:
• Integrated Accounting Practice
• Finance
• New Venture Planning
• International Business
• Information Technology
3) Strong Partnerships with Industry and Professional Bodies:
We have a strong network of industry and professional partners. To allow you to gain more practical hands-on training, you will have the chance to do your industrial attachment with one of our strategic industry partners, which include the Big 4 audit firms, large local accounting firms, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and many reputable multi-national companies. You will also have a chance to go overseas for industrial attachment. We work closely with professional bodies like the Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPAS), the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Our graduations prizes are sponsored by all the Big 4 audit firms, and the professional accounting bodies.
4) Opportunities to Stretch Yourself:
You will have a chance to stretch yourself in various areas. You will have a chance to take up elective/advanced modules such as getting involved in doing feasibility studies on commercialising some of the new SP inventions, and in going for overseas immersion programs in China and Japan. You can also build up your confidence and initiative through organising DAC Chapter activities, like local and overseas community service projects, camps and other events.
Is this the SP-DAC course for you?
Ultimately, the SP-DAC Experience is about opportunities.
Do you want to gain technical competence, build networks and friendships within and outside the school, and develop a sense of confidence and integrity? Do you want to set the solid foundation to create results and legacies of your own after 3 years in the Polytechnic?
If the answer is yes to all the above questions, then the SP-DAC is the course for you.
"The experience in DAC/SB has instilled in me business principles, patience and confidence. I am now ready to pursue my dreams, and live the future I have always imagined. It has certainly been one of the best three years of my life."
- Kareen Thian Pei Yee (DAC graduate, Class of 2011, NTU Scholar, LKY Step Award Recipient 2011, Model student of the Year, 2011)
"My experience in Singapore Polytechnic has been a very rewarding one in that we are not only learning the basic concepts, fundamental theories as well as methodologies incorporated in business world, but also we are given real life examples to apply those lessons that we have learned in the campus. What I find most rewarding is that my education in Singapore Polytechnic has significantly helped me in achieving a scholarship and top scores in Nanyang Business School (NTU). Singapore Polytechnic is my key to success."
-Iwan Yulianto (DAC Top Graduate, Class of 2009, President of Nanyang Business School Exchange Club)
