Not only did the NWU achieve a 94% pass rate for first-time candidates, but it also boasts two students in the top 10, one taking the number one spot in the whole of South Africa.
SAICA released the results for the January 2019 ITC exam on Friday, 29 March.
Franco Bosman, representing the NWU’s campus in Vanderbijlpark, was announced the top performer in the country out of 15 participating universities.
Franco was home-schooled until Grade 9, and then attended Hoërskool Dr Malan in Meyerton from Grade 10. He matriculated in 2014 with seven distinctions, boasting the second best results in the Sedibeng District.
In 2015, he enrolled for a BCom Chartered Accountancy degree at the NWU. Franco completed the degree, passing all of his modules with distinction, while maintaining an average of 91,9%.
Franco also passed the extremely challenging BComHons in Chartered Accountancy with distinction.
He is currently doing his academic articles at the campus in Vanderbijlpark while working on his master’s degree. Franco will then join Deloitte, one of the big four accounting firms in South Africa, to compete his traineeship in 2020.
Prof Heleen Janse van Vuuren, director of the School of Accounting Sciences, says the NWU remains dedicated to the delivery of chartered accountants as this profession is considered a scarce skill as listed by the Department of Higher Education and Training.
The undergraduate programme in chartered accountancy is offered at all three NWU campuses. The postgraduate qualification that allows students to write the ITC test is offered at the campuses in Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark.
Here is Franco Bosman during his first graduation. From left are Prof Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy, Franco, Prof Heleen Janse van Vuuren and Prof Herman van der Merwe.
