#FITForLife: UP Accounting develops innovative student support programme to help future chartered accountants

Posted on April 15, 2021

As the country continues to grapple with funding issues in higher education, the University of Pretoria (UP)’s Accounting programme has developed an innovative student support programme called the FIT programme. The programme aims to help students studying towards becoming a chartered...

Extraordinary professor profile: Prof Tim Rupert

Posted on April 06, 2021

Currently Professor in the Accounting Group of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in the USA, Prof Tim Rupert also finds his work as extraordinary professor in the Department of Accounting at the University of Pretoria (UP) most rewarding. “Helping a...

Alumnus profile: Dr Marius Koen

Posted on March 23, 2021

Been there, done that...got the T-shirt. This, in casual terms, sums up the sterling career of esteemed alumnus, Dr Marius Koen. After having completed his practical training at a South African auditing firm, he joined UP as lecturer and professor where he served for nearly two decades while also...

University of Pretoria domestic leader in four subjects in 2021 QS World University Rankings

Posted on March 09, 2021

UP is the domestic leader in four subjects: Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Mathematics; and Accounting and Finance.

Meditari Accountancy Research – overview and origins of an accounting research journal

Posted on November 10, 2020

Meditari Accountancy Research is a highly ranked international accounting research journal. However, the journal has deep University of Pretoria (UP), and therefore, South African roots. Prof Quintus Vorster, then Head of the Department of Accounting, was the main driving force behind the...

Higher Education Under Lockdown

Posted on October 26, 2020

The global pandemic has disrupted our concept of how life should work in almost all aspects of our lives. Higher education is no exception and many seem concerned about how students will cope with the forced transition to digital education. Some are worried that the crisis will lead to a decline...

Becoming a Pundit in a Time of Coronavirus

Posted on October 23, 2020

It seems that the current turmoil caused by the global pandemic has every pundit out there predicting how the world will change (or not) when this is (eventually) over...

Diluted Adjusted Core Normalised Operating Headline Earnings (DACNOHE for Short)...

Posted on October 19, 2020

Perhaps contrary to your expectations, this article is not about the discovery of a new and revolutionary profit measure. Nor, I hasten to add, should it be confused with some mysterious Eastern religious greeting (DACNOHE to you too). Although I must admit that I live in daily expectation...