Welcome Message from the Coordinator
On behalf of the Dean and Management of the School of Graduate Studies (SOGS) of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), I am pleased to welcome you to study this programme. We are delighted you chose UPSA and look forward to a productive partnership that will ensure you realise your highest potential.
As a professional university, our graduate programmes seek to achieve excellence, innovation, and the highest quality in teaching, learning and research. The UPSA MBA in Auditing programme is designed to prepare students aspiring to assume high managerial positions in medium to large organisations to acquire the requisite skills to ensure the highest-level compliance to auditing standards, best practices, and accountability to its stakeholders in how the organisation is operated, regulated, and controlled within relevant laws and regulations.
The uniqueness of this programme is its character of blending theory and practice in the programme design and delivery. The strength of MBA Auditing, therefore, lies in its practical emphasis without compromising academic rigour. This qualification, therefore, leaves the learner with practical skills to combat challenges in governance in their places of work. Upon successful completion, graduates will acquire the appropriate skills in audit practice and management. Students will also gain skills to enable them to exhibit a highly specialised set of leadership skills for high organisational performance in auditing career paths and opportunities in management, among others.
We are pleased with our latest accomplishments and trust in a flourishing future with even more developments. We hope you share our vision and passion! Feel free to contact the programme coordinator if you need any additional information.
Programme Philosophy
In our quest to equip and develop global managers with professional skills and expertise, the University of Professional Studies, Accra, introduced the Master of Business Administration, Auditing (MBA Auditing) programme, which is designed to meet the high-level academic and professional needs of the public and private sectors of the economy. The philosophy behind the MBA Auditing programme is to emphasise understanding the concepts and approaches to audit, investigations, and assurance services and invariably develop students’ skills in applying concepts to professional services in the area of audit and assurance.
Programme Objectives:
The aims and objectives of the Master of Business Administration in Auditing are to:
• Develop students’ knowledge, skills, and practical approach to audit functions from the planning stage to the reporting stage.
• Equip students with practical knowledge to design and develop internal control manuals for organisations.
• Equip students with practical knowledge in both external and internal Auditing.
• Provide students with the necessary internal control techniques that will enable management to attain objectives.
• Equip students with the requisite skills and expertise to conduct forensic audits.
• Equip students with computer-assisted techniques and programmes to perform audits.
Programme Outcomes
On the successful completion of the MBA Auditing, graduates will:
• Demonstrate considerable knowledge of the Auditing profession.
• Demonstrate considerable knowledge of the legal and regulatory environment and its impact on audit.
• Design an internal control manual for an organisation.
• Apply an effective forensic system capable of detecting and preventing organisational fraud.
• Conduct a complete internal and external audit task in any organisation.
Structure of the Programme
The MBA Auditing programme is a two-year programme taken over four semesters. It is made up of core courses, mandatory and a research component. See table below for details.
SEMESTER ONE COURSES (3 Credits hours per course) | SEMESTER TWO COURSES (3 Credits hours per course) |
| MCPC601: Marketing Management | MCPC604: Economics for Managers |
| MCPC603: Organisational Behaviour and Management | MCPC612: Financial Management |
| MCPC605: Management Information Systems | MCPC614: Management Accounting |
| MCPC607: Statistics for Decision Making | MCPC616: Research Methods |
| MCPC609: Legal Aspects of Business | MCPC618: Accounting & Financial Systems |
SEMESTER THREE (3 Credits hours per course) | SEMESTER FOUR (3 Credits hours per course) |
| MCPC611: Business Leadership and Ethics | MBAU602: Audit Related & Assurance Services |
| MCPC613: Strategic Management | MBAU606: Forensic Auditing |
| MBAU601: Conduct of Audit & Reporting | MBCG610: Business Etiquette/Practitioners’ Forum |
| MBAF601: Financial Reporting | MBAF604: Taxation & Fiscal Policy |
| MBAF615: Public Sector Accounting | MBCG620: Project Work (6 Credit Hours) |
Profile of the Coordinator
Mr. Thompson Aneyire Kubaje is a lecturer in the Department of Accounting. He is an experienced finance officer with decades of practice both within the private and public sectors. Mr Kubaje is a Chartered Accountant and also holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Ghana Business School.
He has worked with the Ghana Postal Service as part of their internal audit mobile team. He has also worked with Danafco Limited as an Accounts Officer. He was the Finance Manager with Christian Mothers Association, a non-governmental organisation on the empowerment of women with multi-donor funding from Korand Adenauer Stiftung and Japan International Development Agency (JICA). He had a short sting with Ba-Iseng Construction Company, and he is the founding member of MONFIN microfinance.
Mr Kubaje is currently pursuing a PhD with the Open University of Malaysia, Accra Institute of Technology.
Contact the Coordinator via:
email: [email protected]
Phone Number: +233 209978020