| Department of Commerce |
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| History of the department |
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| EMEA College of Arts and Science, Kondotty was established
in the year 1982 as a junior college with pre degree courses.
For teaching students of commerce group the department
of commerce came into being in 1983 with one faculty member.
The second member was appointed in 1984. |
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| In1983 B Com Degree Course was introduced under the
Department with Cost Accounting as elective subject. By
the end of the first B Com batch the department had inducted
4 more faculty members, one being part time member for
teaching law subjects. Thus, since then, it has five permanent
and one part time member. |
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| With the introduction of few more elective subjects
under B Com Degree Course by University of Calicut, the
elective subject Cost Accounting under the department
was changed as Travel and Tourism from the academic year
1997-98 onwards. This was done because of the importance
of Travel and Tourism industry in the economy of kerala.
The elective was again changed as Co-operation in the
year 2000-01 due to the demand from the students and the
increased employment opportunities in the cooperative
institutions of the nearby areas of the college. In the
same year B Com vocational stream (Tax Procedure and Practice)
was added to the non vocational stream ( with Co-operation
as elective subject) existing. The vocational stream was
sponsored by the UGC for 5 years. Two guest faculty members
were appointed since then to teach the tax subjects of
the vocational stream. |
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| Objective of the Department |
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| The College is located in a rural area. Most of the
students belongs to socially and economically backwards
families. The main objective of the Department has been
to build a concrete base for the students to equip them
with knowledge required for getting entry to various commerce-based
professional courses and post-graduate degrees. The subsidiary
objective has been to make them fit for jobs like accounting
clerk or self employment programmes. |
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