The Accounting Major can be traced back to Commercial Specialties, Jimei School, founded by Tan Kah Kee, the famous patriotic overseas Chinese, in Aug.1920. The school motto of Sincerity and Perseverance has been perfectly inherited over the past 100 years. The department sticks to the educational policy of serving social and economic development, adhering to the idea of connotation development. In 1996, it started to enroll the undergraduates. In 2007, it enrolled academic postgraduates, it was awarded the provincial characteristic specialty. Next, it was entitled to enroll MPAcc in 2019. In the year of 2020, it was approved as one of the national projects for the first-class undergraduate program development. The department has cultivated a large number of excellent financial management talents. It has long been famous for “the Cradle of Accounting Talents in Fujian”, its graduates are all over China and abroad.
Education Objective
The objective of the program is to cultivate senior application-oriented personnel, through shaping professional ethics with school motto of Sincerity and Perseverance, to be oriented by the demand for digital economy talents, to cater to Fujian and facing the country. The students will be brought up with rich cultural background and sense of social responsibility. This program will train skilled, innovative and inter-disciplinary professionals with macroscopic visual field.
Major Characteristics
Deep cross-disciplinary integration facilitates the transformation and upgrading of the program.
1. Ideological Education + Tan Kah-kee Spirit:Integrating Tan Kah-kee Spirit and school motto of Sincerity and Perseverance into the ideological and political education,building professional ethics , and cultivating students ' sentiments for the motherland;
2. Micro + Macro Thinking:Strengthening international joint training, broadening students ' horizon, cultivating economic thinking, and upgrading strategic perspective;
3. Finance + Business:Promoting case teaching with integration of finance and business, co-constructing internship bases with integration of industry and education, and fostering the integration of accountancy and other disciplines like information science, economics and management;
4. Accountcy + Digital Intelligence Technology:Constructing a Big Data and Financial Sharing Laboratory, making use of big data and AI-aided decision-making to improve the students ' digital intelligence skills.
The Teaching Staff
The accounting department has a full-time teaching staff of 19, among whom 12 professors and associate professors; there are 8 teachers with PH.D., 35% of the faculty has overseas education or visiting background; two faculty members have been awarded the title of “Provincial Leading Accounting Talent”. They have gained 9 state- funded and province-funded research projects, and 22 granted provincial teaching achievements, teaching reform projects etc.
Cultivation Mode for Undergraduates
1. Optimizing curriculum system and improving data analysis skills. The latest version of curriculum for undergraduates is highlighted by the courses concerning Python, Data Mining and analysis, big data and financial decision-making policies, practice of financial sharing and blockchain topics. The optimized curriculum has been reviewed the academic the practical experts.
2. Experience of international cooperation:The program of ACCA has laid a solid foundation in bilingual teaching. A preliminary Memorandum of Cooperation with Australian Newcastle University (world’s top 200) has been signed, which relates to the curriculum, training program, swap of credits and tuition waiver.
3. The construction of Big Data and Financial Sharing Laboratory. The scheme is to fit the graduates for the demand of high-level employing entities. In line with the training scheme, a Big Data and Financial Sharing Lab has been set up, and the software been introduced, so that the students can practice big data and AI-aided financial decision.
4. Textbooks of professional core curriculum is beginning to take shape. Corporate Finance and Primary Accountancy have been granted as provincial elite projects; the four books of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Government Accounting and Accounting for Special Industries have been funded by the State Department of MOF.