STUDENT ACCOUNTANTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1184, 20 July 1911, Page 6

STUDENT ACCOUNTANTS.

AT VICTORIA COLLEGE. At its meeting last evening the Victoria Cfilleg'e Council derided to take a definite step in the direction of placing the collage in closer, touch with the mercantile community by stating to the New Zealand Society of Accountants its position regarding commercial courses of lectures in a series of resolutions proposed by Mr. 11. p. Von Haast, and seconded by Air. T, 11. Fleming, as follows:— (1) That tho only provision at present existing at Victoria College for instruction in the subjects prescribed for tho professional examination in accountancy is to the subjects of Mercantile Law, Rights and Duties of Trustees 'aiulcr Wills), and Receivers, Law of Bankruptcy and Law of Joint-stock Companies, ara dealt with generally and broadly in the lectures and instruction given for tho LL.B. degree, but with the possible exception of mercantile law, are not dealt with in such detail or on such special lines as would be necessary for candidates for' the professional examinations in accountancy. (2) The annual expenditure in connection with the present teaching of such subjects is the salary of tho Professor of English and New Zealand Law, ,£70(1, but such expenditure is attributable to tho teaching for the- LL.B. degree. ■ (3) The council is anxious to make provision for 1912 onwards for instruction in all- the subjects prescribed for tho professional examinations in accountancy. (4) Such provision will necessitate tho appointment of (a) a lecturer in accountancy, (b) a part time lecturer to assist tho Professor of English.Law. (5) Tile council • estimates that tho amount, including Government: subsidy, would bo required annually to provide for the -salaries of snch lecturers would bo for ,£'2oo to <£-50 for tho lecturer on economics and about ,£IOO for the law lecturer. ... , (G) As Iho law lccturer would bo required to as<ist in the instruction for the LL.B. degree alio, part of his salary would bo chargeablo to tho Law School. ... . , (7) The college has at present- no funds available for the purpose mentioned. . . . (8) The council can only make the provision required if it receives a sufficient increase in its annual grant from the Government or an annual grant from tho New Zealand Socioty of Accountants, augmented by an annual subsidy from tho Government. (9) That a committee and tho council, consisting of tho chairman, Messrs. Bell, Ailken, and Von Haast, . . . confer with the representatives of tho Council of the New Zealand Society of Accountants with a view to ascertaining what sum tho society is prepared to grant t-o the college, for what.term, and upon what conditions, and generally discuss the whole question of making provision for instruction at tho college in tho subjects for tho professional examinations in accountancy, and to report at the next meeting of the council.

, With regard to the- matter of the proposed degree in commerce, it wa.s agreed that that aspect of tho question should Ixj deferred tor another meeting.