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Securing a finance function or embracing business law
The OHADA framework can be approached through a certificate of a few months, centred on an organisation's financial compliance, or through a three-year programme that makes it a full discipline. Here are both, with their real blocks, supervised hours and fees.
One framework, two uses
The certificate takes the OHADA framework from the accounts side: chart of accounts, financial statements, filing obligations, internal control, compliance arrangements. It addresses whoever already holds a finance role and must secure it. The programme takes the same framework from the law side: companies, contracts, security interests, insolvency proceedings, arbitration, governance. It forms a business lawyer, able to draft and defend the deeds themselves.
Assumed knowledge, on each side
Certificate in OHADA Finance and Compliance
Keeping or supervising accounts day to day. Debit, credit, balance sheet and income statement are assumed: the certificate starts from the OHADA framework, it does not re-teach double entry.
Business Law and OHADA Compliance
No legal prerequisite. Sustained, precise reading is essential, however: law is worked in the text.
Certificate and programme, on one grid
| Criterion | Certificate in OHADA Finance and Compliance | Business Law and OHADA Compliance |
|---|---|---|
| What is awarded | Professional certificate | Bachelor's degree |
| Duration | 6 months | 3 years |
| Weekly workload | 12 h per week | 20 h per week |
| Teaching blocks | 4 | 8 |
| Supervised hours | 180 h | 1800 h |
| Credits | 18 credits | 180 credits |
| Fees | 4 200 000 GNF in total | 5 200 000 GNF per year |
The hourly weight of each route
- Certificate in OHADA Finance and Compliance
- 180 (9 %)
- Business Law and OHADA Compliance
- 1800 (91 %)
Choosing with full knowledge
What you must produce
Compliant accounts and a control framework that holds: the certificate. Legal deeds you draft and defend: the programme.
Your availability
A few months around a job, or three structured years: the table gives both durations and both weekly loads.
The next step you are preparing
The certificate secures the role you hold today; the programme opens the law and compliance occupations in the titles catalogue.
What is left to know
Is the certificate aimed at accountants in post?
It addresses any finance or administrative role that produces accounts and answers for a compliance framework.
Does the programme cover OHADA accounting?
It covers accounting law and financial reporting obligations, alongside company and contract law.
Do the certificate blocks count towards the programme?
They are reviewed at admission and recognised where they overlap the same framework: the admissions adviser checks block by block.
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