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  • Women’s month: Spotlight on EMS achievers

    Posted on August 24, 2018

    The national commemoration of Women’s Month offers an opportunity to not only pay homage to the women who took to the streets in 1956 to march against the unjust pass laws of the day, but also to celebrate a new generation of women who have taken the baton forward and are making a...

  • UP CA students take top position in SA

    Posted on August 21, 2018

    Students from UP have again taken the top position in South Africa with a stunning 99.5% cumulative pass rate for the January and June 2018 Initial Tests of Competence (ITC), the first of two national professional exams for prospective Chartered Accountants (CAs). This is the second year in a row...

  • EMS honours research and teaching excellence

    Posted on June 21, 2018

    Academic staff in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences were honoured for the excellence they achieved in teaching and learning, as well as research, at the prestigious annual EMS Awards Function, which was held on 6 June 2018.

  • Taxation attends local and global conferences

    Posted on June 14, 2018

    In May 2018 Mr Rudi Oosthuizen and Ms Nicola Hlongwane of the Department of Taxation in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences accompanied the 2018 Tax honours students to the 6th Annual SA Institute of Tax Professionals (SAIT) Tax Student Conference.

  • Tax students advises entrepreneurs in business incubator

    Posted on June 14, 2018

    Honours students from the Department of Taxation had the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills in a simulated training environment when they took part in a workplace simulation project on 29 May 2018, in collaboration with the Department of Business Management.

  • Taxation shines the spotlight on research

    Posted on April 11, 2018

    Research has received significant attention at the Department of Taxation in UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences thus far this year.

  • Taxation hosts international visitors to strengthen research capacity

    Posted on January 23, 2018

    Prof Lisa Marriott of the School of Accounting and Commercial Law at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and extraordinary professor in UP’s Department of Taxation Prof Chris Evans of the University of New South Wales, Australia, visited the University of Pretoria at the end...

  • Hands-on exposure for second-year Tax students

    Posted on October 13, 2017

    The second-year Taxation students completed an assignment aimed at simulating the process of registering an individual for tax and completing the e-filing of an individual taxpayer.

  • Tax fraternity gathers at Tax Indaba

    Posted on October 13, 2017

    The Tax Indaba, held from 11 to 15 September 2017 at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, is now the largest annual gathering bringing together the entire tax community – tax practitioners, in-house staff members, government tax officials and tax academics.

  • UP scores highest pass rate in recent SAICA exams

    Posted on September 12, 2017

    Students from the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences achieved the highest cumulative pass rate in South Africa in the two most recent Initial Tests of Competence administered by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA).

  • 2017 SAWIP team returns from Washington DC

    Posted on August 14, 2017

    This year's UP representatives to the South Africa – Washington International Programme (SAWIP) recently returned to South Africa after spending six weeks of the seven-month leadership development programme in Washington DC to gain professional and cultural work exposure.

  • Financial Sciences Annual Awards Function

    Posted on July 05, 2017

    The Financial Sciences Annual Awards Function was held on 17 May 2017 in the Conference Hall of the University of Pretoria.

  • Research and teaching excellence celebrated at EMS Awards

    Posted on June 28, 2017

    The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences celebrated the excellent research and teaching and learning achievements of academic staff members at the prestigious annual EMS Awards Function, which was held on 21 June 2017.

  • Tax@Tuks successfully hosts annual networking event

    Posted on June 15, 2017

    The Department of Taxation’s Tax@Tuks student society hosted its third annual networking event on 2 May 2017. This event aims to provide both students and prospective employers with the ideal platform to engage one another regarding vacation work, articles and other graduate programmes...

  • Taxation honours students go on a farm field trip

    Posted on June 14, 2017

    The 2017 Taxation honours class went to the Du Plooy Dairy Farm in Kaalfontein, east of Pretoria, on 25 May 2017 as part of their farming operations learning area. The purpose of the trip was to provide the students with practical experience of how a farm works on a day-to-day basis and how this...

  • UP students win team challenge at SAIT Student Conference

    Posted on June 14, 2017

    On 5 May 2017, Ms Juanita Venter, the subject-responsible lecturer for the BCom Taxation Honours group, and the academic trainees in the Department of Taxation Mses Noma Bafana, Thelma Mudluli, Corlia Faurie, Jade Els and the 2017 Taxation honours students attended the South African Institute of...

  • EMS Autumn 2017 Graduations

    Posted on June 06, 2017

    The Autumn 2017 Graduation Ceremonies of UP’s Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences were recently held at the Rembrandt Hall at the LC de Villiers Sports Campus.

  • EMS Dean's List Awards function honours academic excellence

    Posted on June 06, 2017

    Prof Elsabé Loots, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria, hosted top academic achievers in the Faculty at the prestigious annual Dean's List Awards function on 16 May 2017.

  • EMS academics celebrated at UP Academic Achievers Awards

    Posted on May 15, 2017

    A number of academics from the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences were celebrated when the University of Pretoria hosted its annual Academic Achievers Awards on 9 May 2017.

  • UP's CA-students once again shine in the January 2017 ITC

    Posted on March 31, 2017

    The Chartered Accountancy (CA) students of the University of Pretoria have once again delivered an exceptional performance in the January 2017 Initial Test of Competence (ITC) of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA), with a first-time writer pass rate of 89,3%.

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