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Certificate in Computerized Accounting and Finance
New Era College of Art, Science and Technology · Gaborone
About this programme
Introductory programme covering computerised bookkeeping, payroll, financial statements and spreadsheet applications for accounting support roles.
Entry requirement
Entry requirement: at least 28 points.
Programme facts
| Qualification | Certificate |
| Institution | New Era College of Art, Science and Technology |
| Faculty / school | Faculty of Commerce and Industry |
| Duration | 2 years |
| Location | Gaborone |
| Minimum points | 28 |
| Accreditation | BQA Accredited |
| Funding / sponsorship | Government sponsorship available through the Department of Tertiary Education Financing (DTEF) for qualifying students at 36 BGCSE points and above. |
| Demand outlook | HRDC forecasts about 133 openings a year in INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (2025). Years of backlog: not shown. Withheld. Table 31 lists Information Technology and Science & Technology as separate fields, and IT roles are near-certainly counted across both, so the openings figure for this field alone is not a sound denominator. Dividing by it would describe the way the source is structured rather than the job market. Graduates per opening: not shown. Withheld for the same denominator reason as the backlog figure. These openings are a forecast of need, not posts that are currently being filled. In July 2026 the Directorate of Public Service Management told Parliament's Public Accounts Committee that government "currently do not have the financial capacity to create new vacancies", and that more than 8,000 students now graduate each year while the economy is no longer creating jobs at the same pace. Government policy reserves 80% of entry-level vacancies for new graduates and is achieving about 70%. (Directorate of Public Service Management, evidence to the 62nd sitting of the Public Accounts Committee, reported by Mmegi (July 2026).) This describes the whole field, not this programme alone, and it is not a government waiting list — Botswana publishes no such figure. Source: HRDC Priority Skills Report, March 2025, Table 31 p.41 and Appendix 3 pp.66-76; HRDC Tertiary Education Statistics Report 2024, Table 22. |
Careers this programme leads to
Accounting Assistant Payroll Officer Financial Clerk Bookkeeper Data Entry Specialist Finance Officer Accounting Technician General Ledger Clerk Accounts Receivable Clerk Accounting Associate
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