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DSE BAFS modern bookkeeping desk: a desktop adding machine with its printed tape curling out, stacked spreadsheets, a red and a blue pen, a date stamp and a ring binder.

Build business and personal-finance foundations, then deepen the Accounting or Business Management strand.

  • Use separate learning routes for Accounting and Business Management
  • Trace accounting errors through format, debit-credit treatment and numerical relationships
  • Connect management concepts to case evidence instead of repeating textbook definitions
  • Explain business meaning after calculations to build genuine decision-making skills
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Strand diagnosis Build different routes for Accounting and Business Management After the common foundation, organise practice by strand, error type and school progress.
Secure the common foundation
Check that business environment, personal finance and cross-functional concepts are connected.
Strand-specific demands
Accounting emphasises process and format; management emphasises concept choice, case application and evaluation.
Diagnose performance
Separate terminology, calculation, format, interpretation and case-application problems.
 Accounting strand Trace each error from the final accounts Follow the accounting cycle to locate classification, posting, adjustment or statement errors instead of checking the final number only.
Format and terminology
Use the required account names, columns, debit-credit treatment and presentation.
Trace errors
Use the accounting equation and numerical relationships to locate imbalance or unusual results.
Interpret after calculating
Explain what a ratio, cost or statement result indicates and what it cannot show.
 Business Management strand Apply management concepts to the actual case Use objectives, constraints and evidence to select relevant concepts instead of listing definitions.
Match concepts precisely
Distinguish business functions, management functions, principles and strategic tools.
Cite case evidence
Show which fact supports the analysis rather than writing an answer that fits any company.
Effects and recommendations
Analyse impacts on the firm and stakeholders before making a conditional recommendation.
 Integrated application Turn calculations and evidence into business judgement Integrate quantitative results, case evidence and principles into a justified conclusion that respects constraints.
Prioritise information
Separate decisive data and assumptions from irrelevant detail.
Compare options
Assess cost, risk, feasibility and objectives across alternatives.
Review the answer
Check that the conclusion answers the task, uses evidence and states limitations.
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Course content

Business environment
Hong Kong’s business setting, ownership, stakeholders, functions and social responsibility.
Personal financial management
Goals, budgets, saving, investment, credit, insurance and risk.
Basics of accounting
Double entry, accounting cycle, financial statements, adjustments and controls.
Financial accounting
Entity accounts, accounting principles, financial statements and ratio analysis.
Cost accounting
Cost classification, costing methods, marginal costing, budgets and variances.
Introduction to management
Management functions, leadership, communication, decisions and entrepreneurship.
Financial and human resources management
Finance, investment, recruitment, training, appraisal and reward management.
Marketing management
Research, segmentation, positioning, the marketing mix and customer relationships.

Course fees

4 lessons per month 90 minutes per lesson

Fees by level

S4
HK$1,380/ 4 lessons
S5-S6
HK$1,560/ 4 lessons
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