Bachelor of Accountancy with Second Major in Entrepreneurship

Single Degree with 2nd Major

Programme Type

Full-time

NBS UG Admissions

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What makes potential employees attractive to employers? It’s their talent and ability to generate and execute innovative ideas. 

At Nanyang Technological University (NTU), you can now pursue a Bachelor of Accountancy with Second Major in Entrepreneurship (SMiE) Major in Entrepreneurship (SMiE), a joint degree programme in collaboration with the NTU Entrepreneurship Academy and Nanyang Business School.     

The SMiE is developed to prepare NTU graduates for challenges in this new digital age by promoting greater flexibility for them to pursue interdisciplinary programmes and pan-university majors.  

This full-time, three-year programme includes a 20-week, hands-on experiential session that will introduce you to start-ups, venture capital firms, entrepreneurship support organisations, and innovation setups in corporations. It will equip you with essential entrepreneurship competency and a forward-thinking mindset for identifying and launching new business ventures in this digital economy.   

As an SMiE student, you will also have to be quick in identifying economic values of technology and be able to seize new opportunities, translating them into products and services that benefit society.   

Upon graduation, you will be part of the next generation of talent in driving technological innovation.​                     

Incoming freshmen with qualifications such as the ​A-Level, International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma, NUS High School diploma, or Polytechnic diploma are eligible for exemption from relevant ​​Accountancy or Business core courses.

Your eligibility for exemptions will be assessed based on the criteria outlined in Annex A. NBS course exemption eligibility for polytechnic graduates is based on the programme they have completed prior to joining NTU, and not on a course-by-course basis.​​

After admissions to the BBus programme, incoming freshmen may apply for exemption by writing to NBS Student Administration at [email protected]. Necessary supporting documents must be provided.
3.5 years, with direct honours. 

Core Courses

  • Accounting I
  • Accounting II
  • Financial Management
  • Business Law
  • Statistics & Analysis
  • Marketing
  • Organisational Behaviour and Design
  • Strategic Management
  • Business Operations & Process
  • Intermediate Excel


Interdisciplinary Collaborative Core (Common Core)

  • Healthy Living and Mental Wellbeing
  • Sustainability: Society, Economy & Environment
  • Science and Technology for Humanity
  • Career & Entrepreneurial Development for the Future World
  • Ethics & Civics in a Multi-Cultural World
  • Navigating the Digital World
  • Inquiry and Communication in the Interdisciplinary World


Interdisciplinary Collaborative Core (Foundational Core)

  • Careers II
  • Decision Making with Programming & Analytics
  • Professional Attachment
  • Communication Management Strategies


Broadening and Deepening Electives

Compulsory

  • Technopreneurial Mindset and Technology Innovation 
  • Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
  • Managing New Ventures
  • Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures


Elective (Choose four to five Courses)

  • Enterprise Strategy
  • E-Startups & Social Media Strategies
  • Innovation Marketing
  • Law of Intellectual Property & New Media
  • Business Venture Implementation
  • Entrepreneurial Marketing and Business Development
  • Venture Capital Investment
  • Design and System Thinking
  • Innovation and Commercialization of Technologies
  • Social Entrepreneurship

Experiential Programme
(Overseas Entrepreneurship Programme / Local Professional Attachment with start-ups or venture capital firms)


Specialisation Component - Accountancy Courses (Nine courses)

  • AC2101 Accounting Recognition & Measurement
  • AC2104 Assurance & Auditing
  • AC2105 Accounting for Decision-making & Control
  • AC2301 Principles of Taxation
  • AC2302 Company Law & Corporate Governance
  • AC2401 Accounting Information Systems
  • AC3102 Risk Reporting & Analysis
  • AC3103 Accounting Analysis & Valuation
  • AC3104 Risk Management & Advanced Auditing