BAF Department

1)Brief History
Accounting and Finance plays a prominent role in today’s modern Business era. Accounting and Finance education equips students with the essential skills and know-how to pursue a huge variety of career possibilities in diverse sectors. One wishes expert like economist/ financialist / accountants with state-of-the-art practical expertise that can examine, evaluate, and analyse the intricacies of large-scale business and professions to achieve economic growth of an era or a country. Accounting and Finance also plays a vital role in the economic development of a country. Hence, education institutions are established to educate and train students in these field with greater emphasis on practical knowledge that shall take the advantage of this. With the view to bridge the gap between industry demand and the academic curricula and increasing demand for trained educated professionals in the field of Accountancy and Finance, the Department of Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Finance) i.e. BAF was introduced in the year 2016-17.

2)Brief Introduction about the Subject and its Significance
Vision: To make students ready to face upcoming career challenges in their professional field of Accountancy and Finance.
Mission: To foster academic career success through development of critical thinking, effective communication, creativity by providing opportunities, and experience that enable to grow, thrive, and explore.

About BAF:
BAF is a three-year comprehensive programme with the objective to improve self-employment and it provide benefits to corporate organizations by providing them with suitable trained students in the field of Accounting & Finance including Cost Accounting, Auditing, IT, Taxation, Economics, Business Law and Business communications, by mode of professional interactions, presentations, projects, guest lectures, industrial visits and internships. The Department of BAF aims at maintaining academic excellence and equipping students with the skills necessary to face the challenges of the business world in accounting and finance as well as all-round development of the student’s personality. It gives a global perspective on investment markets and asset classes, provide practical as well as theoretical knowledge on the processes and mechanics underlying investment, and build on students' existing numerical skills so that they can understand and practice investment-related mathematics. The reformed syllabus caters to the growing and varying needs of students to upscale and be competitive to the changing needs of the modern business world.

Academics:
Each year consists of two semesters, and, in all, the programme comprises various courses adopting and applying the modern evaluation system.

Eligibility:
XIIth passed Candidates in Commerce, Arts or Science who have scored a minimum of 45% marks in the first attempt or its equivalent.

3)Career Options for Students
After completion of BAF programme, the student can pursue various courses and build their career in the various areas including the following:
Chartered Accountant (CA)
Cost and Management Accountancy
Company Secretary (CS)
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
Certified Public Accountant
Financial Analysts
Credit Analysts
Senior Accountant
Financial Planner
Master in Commerce (M.Com – Accounting and Finance)
Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Accounting and Finance
Financial Risk Manager

4)Department Email Address:-
baf@wilsoncollege.edu