The aim of the seminar is to enable students to develop critical thinking skills and to enable them to apply financial and managerial accounting techniques to become better managers. It will attempt to enable the students to use accounting and financial information for the purpose of planning, controlling, reporting and decision making.

The emphasis of the seminar is interpretation, rather than the construction, of accounting information. Therefore, the intention of this seminar is NOT to train students to become accountants, but to supplement their previous education and expertise so that they understand, analyse, and discuss accounting information in a work environment to make well-reasoned decisions, manage performance better, and build strong business cases for their departments.

After completing the seminar, the student should be able to apply accounting information to enhance the quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of decision making in all areas of business.