Short Learning Programmes

Course in Administration of Estates (70874)

Duration: One year

Language medium: English

Target group:

This course will benefit tax consultants, employees of accounting, banking and legal firms who, inter alia, specialise in the winding up of estates and specific employees at the Receiver of Revenue and the Master of the High Court. Knowledge of the determination of taxable income will be to their advantage.

Admission requirements:

Senior Certificate or an equivalent qualification or an appropriate experience

Registration periods:

The course commences on 1 March. The closing date for registration is 29 February.

Course leader details:

Mr Vusumuzi Msiza MCompt, CA(SA)
Department of Taxation
Discipline expertise: Taxation
Office AJH van der Walt-building (Muckleneuk campus, Pretoria) UNISA
Tel : 012 429 4358
Email: ESTXenquiries@unisa.ac.za

Programme administrator:

Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp

Purpose statement:

This course covers the entire field of the administration of deceased and insolvent estates. The objective of the course is to equip students with the knowledge required to enable them to wind up both deceased and insolvent estates of individuals as well as insolvent estates of partnerships, companies and close corporations. The course is of a practical nature

Modules:

ESTX01M - Course in Administration of Estates

Content: Procedure for the administration of an estate and the calculation of estate duty Intestate and testate succession, the law of trusts, the matrimonial property regime and estate planning Insolvent estates and the winding up process including rehabilitation Deceased insolvent estates