EXAMINATION REFORMS

Evening Star, Issue 21510, 7 September 1933, Page 8

EXAMINATION REFORMS

ACCOUNTANTS' DECISIONS Various proposals for amendments in examinations conducted by the Now Zealand University were considered by the Council of the New Zealand Society of Accountants at its recent meeting in Wellington. It was agreed that candidates who had been granted provisional matriculation prior to January 31, 1932, should not be required to pass again in subjects which had already been credited to them. The council adopted a recommendation of the Education Committee that the regulations covering the professional examinations should be amended so that a candidate for these examinations might take not more than five subjects at one time (instead of six), and thus bring the regulations into line with the B. Com. Statute, _ which allowed not more than five subjects at one time- .The new regulation would be effective for the examination in November, 1935. It was resolved that the section of the B. Com, Statute requiring a candidate to pass in bookkeeping and accounts (stage 1) before he could sit in auditing, should be amended, so that this restriction would be removed. “ Restrictions make awkward cases,’’ remarked the president (Mr G. W. Reid). All sorts of combinations could occur in the grouping of subjects, and the present restriction in the Statute could be a hardship in some cases. It was decided that one of the regulations governing examinations for the professional course should be amended so that candidates who had the two subjects of advanced bookkeeping and auditing to complete the course would be allowed to take these subjects one at a time instead of being obliged to sit for both, as at present. The amendment should come into effect for November, 1933. The president said that as these two subjects wore very important it could bo an advantage to concentrate on one at a time.