The Department of Accounting and Finance of Glorious Vision University, Ogwa, came into existence in September, 2011 when the institution commenced academic work. It is hoped that as the programmes of the Department mature, the two programmes will become full-fledged separate departments.
The B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Accounting and Finance is a four-year programme for UTME candidates and three years for direct entry candidates. The programme provides graduates with a broad-based background in preparation for a successful career in a variety of occupations as outlined in the philosophy and objectives. It is also to provide in the process, a solid academic base upon which to build more advanced degrees (M.Sc., Ph.D), if so desired.
The Department of Accounting and Finance will promote synergy and collaborative researches in Accounting and Banking and Finance. This will make both students and lecturers more versatile and professionally equipped with multidisciplinary competences for managing their lives and personal businesses alongside their intellectual pursuits. The Department will also provide a pool of human and material resources for anchoring a variety of diploma, certificate, and higher degree courses in emerging professional management fields. The Department can also provide specialised consultancy services to corporate and public sector clients.
In addition, the Department will encourage her students to enroll for and pass the professional examinations of the respective professional bodies. In this regard the Department will do all that is necessary to obtain the accreditation of its programmes by the relevant professional bodies in addition to the accreditation of the National Universities Commission (NUC).
The philosophy underlying the programmes of the Management and Social Sciences is to produce graduates imbued with the ability to understand and make contribution to the development of Nigeria and the global Community. The Management and Social Sciences have the mission to foster an understanding of the rapidly changing world including issues of globalisation and a ‘borderless world’ as well as relationships between various ‘worlds’.
This broad objective can be achieved by equipping students with a solid foundation as well as specialized knowledge in a particular discipline; prepare graduates to meet the human resources needs; create in graduates entrepreneurial knowledge; ability to apprehend current changes as well as a sense of public responsibility and a spirit of self-reliance.
Objectives
Accordingly, Management and Social Sciences training should:
1. develop the student’s understanding of social problems at the various levels of the
Nigerian and global society;
2. develop in the student the ability for objective and critical judgment and to observe, understand, analyse and synthesize socio-economic, political and environmental problems using Social Sciences methods and techniques;
3. create an enabling environment for desirable behavioural change which would help the
student to develop values that are in consonance with hard work, probity, commitment, discipline and patriotism; and
4. enable the graduate of the Social Sciences to fit into various fields of human endeavour both in the private and public sectors of the economy and equip him/her with
entrepreneurial skills and a sense of self-reliance.
A student shall qualify for the award of a degree in Accounting when he/she has:
1. Completed and passed the prescribed number of courses including all compulsory courses specified by the University/Department, not less than 120 units for UTME and 90 for DE;
2. Completed and met the standards for all required and elective courses; and
3. Obtained a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average CGPA of 1.00 and above.
The Degree Classification for under-graduate law programme shall be as contained in the table below:
| Degree Class | CGPA |
| First class | 4.50-5.00 |
| Second class (upper) | 3.50-4.49 |
| Second class (lower) | 2.40-3.49 |
| Third class | 1.50-2.39 |
| Fail | Less than 1.50 |