Reasons for studying our Program

• Due to general economy’s internationalization and globalization, and particularly of accounting, the Pontificia Javeriana University has assumed a leadership role in the analysis of these issues and of their consequences for the professional practice and academic activity.
• The Graduate Program in Statutory Auditing is not a new program in the country, but at the the Pontificia Javeriana University it is one that seeks the braking of the traditional paradigms in the Public Accounting practice.
• The program responds to the need of advanced education for professionals that perform in the accounting and financial fields, specifically Public Accountants that perform or are willing to perform as Statutory Auditors.
• The program at the Pontificia Javeriana University has as its main stregth its conceptual update (within the information assurance framework) and its world dimension (inside the world commerce of professional services framework), what enables him/her to generate more efficient professional practices for modern organizations management.
  
  

Objective

• To educate in an integral manner, at a superior level, and within high quality and strict international standards, professionals that will outstandingly perform as Statutory Auditors, thanks to the use and understanting of the new conceptual and practical frameworks that characterize auditing and assurance at a world level.

Professional Profile

• The specialist in Statutory Auditing, graduated from the Pontificia Javeriana University, should be a professional capable of executing leadership in interdisciplinary teams. The professional should be commited with the integation of the basic disciplines of enterprise knowledge and a participant in the highest levels in organizations. With the intensive use of modern information technology and with a clear environmental and social conscience, at the highest level of enterprise decision making, the professional should seek the generation of changes that affect the country’s social and economic reality, facing its internationalization processes.
  

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Job Profile

The specialists in Statutory Auditing will be capable of performing functions related to:

• The professional exercise of Statutory Auditing and the modern financial statements auditing.
• Management and business consulting.
• Acoounting, auditing, and control consulting.
• Independent auditing
  
  

Curriculum

STATUTORY AUDITING GRADUATE PROGRAM

FIRST SEMESTER	Hours	SECOND SEMESTER	Hours	THIRD SEMESTER	Hours
Organizational ManagementStatutory Audit Structure	30	Professional Competence	30	Information TechnologyThird Part	30
Information Technology First Part	10	Financial Performance	30	International Accounting	20
Global and Professional Context	30	Integral Auditing	30	Business Ethics and Professional Ethics	30
Auditing in Business Processes	30	Advanced Statutory Auditing	30	Social and Professional Responsibility	20
Auditing and Internal Control	30	Special Audits	30	Objectivity in the Professional Exercise	20
Information Technology Second Part	20			Professional Exercise Management	20
	150		150		150
Total Hours					450

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Lectures

• FERNANDO BORDA SUAREZ.
  Certified Public Accountant (Pontificia Javeriana University). Specialist in Banking, Financial Legislation and President Program – Top Management (all in Andes University). Studies in Sales Management and Marketing (Rosario University). Author of Management Information System and of several articles published in various magazines.
• NELSON DÍAZ MUÑOZ.
  Certified Public Accountant (National University). Specialist in IT Auditing. Certified Internal Auditor - CIA - by the Institute Internal Auditors in USA. International Lecturer at the Interamerican Accounting conferences in Peru, Uruguay, and Panama in Auditing and Internal Auditing fields. In Colombia he has lectured courses and seminars about auditing, control, and risks in the real sectors. Broad professional experience. He is a member of the Interamerican Accounting Association, the Institute Internal Auditors (Colombia’s office), and of the National Institute of Public Accountants.
• GABRIEL RUEDA DELGADO.
  Certified Public Accountant (National University). Specialist in Public Management. Research Professor. Broad academic, research, and operational research on International Financial Reporting Standards, Internal Control, Process Design, Economic Management Control, Fiscal Control, Assessment Indicators for enterprise performance, planning and management of human resources, and internal control system assessment. Experience as a teacher in research areas and accounting theory, accounting harmonization, conferences and workshops on IFRS adoption, internal control, and integral auditing for modernizing fiscal control
• EDGAR ANTONIO VILLAMIZAR.
  Certified Public Accountant (Pontificia Javeriana University). Specialist in Finance and International Business (Sabana Unievrsity). Broad experience in auditing and statutory auditing.

 

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Costs and Registrations

General Information
The Graduate Programs are directed to Public Accountants and professionals with undergraduate degrees in related fields (especially Business Administration, Economy, and Industrial Engineering).

Admission Requirements
Admission form, obtained by the Admissions and Registry Office, including the following documents:

• Professional Degree Diploma and Graduation Act photocopies.
• Original undergraduate grade certification, with a grade average not inferior than three point five (3.5) in the Colombian Grade Scale.
• Two pictures. Size 3 cm X 4 cm.
• ID photocopy (enlarged to half letter size sheet).
• Work certification in which the job title, time, and responsibilities must be included.
• Admission form (adequately filled).
• To have English language comprehension (minimum required proficiency level: 70%)

Semester cost: $3,767,000 Colombian Pesos

Financing options

• Direct financing with the University
• Financing through payment with credit card
• Financing with banks with which the University has agreements

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Duration:

One year distributed in three academic semesters, 272 on - campus hours each (approximately 20 weeks per semester).

Selection Process:

The candidate selection criteria are based on the academic performance during the undergraduate studies, on the personal, professional, and work experience, and the personal interview which will corroborate the candidate’s expectations with the profile that the program offers.

Class Schedule

Fridays (6:00 p.m - 10:00 p.m), and Saturdays (8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m).

Calendar

Enrollment period	April 16 - May 31, 2007
Candidate selection	June 8, 2007
Matriculation period	July 12, 2007
Class initiation	July 20, 2007

 

 

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