About Department

Accounting is a business language that guarantees effective communication between all stake holders and ensures business success provided business source and resources are managed to generate desired results through accounting principles and procedures. Financial Accounting and Cost Accounting are two special areas where Financial Accounting prepares students for record keeping, analysis of business transaction, auditing and generation of annual accounts to measure business performance. Final product of Financial Accounting is predominantly used both by internal and external user of information. Cost accounting on the other hand is primarily for internal control and managerial decision making regarding costing, overhead absorption, budgeting, and cost effectiveness.

The Department of Accounting offers prospective students a programme leading to a Bachelor Degree with major in Accounting. Graduates are provided in depth knowledge of accounting process, costing System and control of overheads so that they can fulfill the needs of Business in maintaining business records and producing end product such as audit reports, managerial control and annual accounts.

Vision:

 The department’s vision is to play a leading role in producing graduates in business with specialist knowledge in the field of accounting and its related areas and be counted in the top national and international institutes of providing Accounting courses.

Mission:

 To educate and produce graduates with higher qualification in accounting with a capability to compete with the students of other universities in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and in the Middle East by earning their reputation of best performers in the business market with a higher degree of professionalism.

Objectives:

• We aim to offer very practical and enjoying learning environment where students build their accounting career in order to;
• Apply accounting tools and techniques in logical and productive manors while maintaining business records.
• Analyze, design, construct, implement and maintain accounting  information that are accurate and trusted to support the operating, managerial as well as the strategic decision making of the organization.
• Develop students’ competence in accounting so that they are able to manage business sources and resources in a way the business stake holders are able to get up to date information for their decision making.
• Support the managers of accounting profession preparing annual accounts.
• Develop analytical skills in financial statements analysis, managing fixed and current assets, developing cash flows, managing capital and liabilities.
• Understand international accounting standards and compete in international job market.