Accounting

Professional Accounting (Master Degree)

The Master of Professional Accounting provides an introduction to business with an accounting focus and enables students to obtain recognition by the peak professional accounting bodies in Australia: CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA). The program consists mainly of core courses, ensuring that all areas required for professional accreditation are covered. Students have the option to extend the program by four courses to graduate with a Master of Professional Accounting (Extension). This enables students to further their study in Accounting and choose from a range of elective courses according to their interests.

Program benefits:
The program covers the core knowledge required for professional recognition by the peak Australian professional accounting associations.
Students acquire a fundamental grounding in commerce through the completion of core courses in accounting, economics, finance, business law and information systems.
The program provides an in-depth study of accounting in the context of business management, enabling students to build a career in accounting, financial management or entrepreneurial areas.

In an environment of increasing corporate collapse many organisations are turning to professionals with forensic investigation skills. Executives and senior management are becoming more aware of the need to incorporate forensic accounting as part of their corporate governance strategy to combat fraud and corruption. This course will provide students with an understanding of how fraud can lead to organisation loss and possible failure. Students will gain appropriate forensic investigation skills and techniques in order to be able to undertake a forensics examination within an organisational context. In addition the course will highlight inadequacies in organisations’ control systems and how to adequately design controls to mitigate against fraud. By undertaking this course you will also personally gain skills that allow you to scrutinise published financial statements before making investment decisions.

Concerns about the survival of planet earth and the role played by organisations in creating a sustainable environment have triggered the need for information that is useful for formulating strategy and making decisions. This course is designed to provide the necessary skills for managers to obtain such information. It will help decision makers incorporate environmental costs in their management of processes and products, supply chain, investment, performance appraisal and greenhouse emissions trading. Environmental management accounting allows decision makers to access information which may lead to increased cost savings and reductions in an organisation’s environmental impact. With the skills provided in this course managers will have the opportunity to increase their organisation’s performance both in financial and environmental terms.

This course, available to postgraduate students only, aims to provide an understanding of the process of accounting, accounting concepts and the uses of accounting information in decision making. Specifically the preparation, use and interpretation of financial reports; the use of accounting information for planning and controlling; and the use of finance information for capital investment appraisal and working capital management will be examined.

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