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Study business & management online with University of New England through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

The Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice is one-of-a-kind degree that gives you the support of a concierge team of experts – helping you design and complete a course to fit your goals.  
Unlike other courses, you don’t need to know where you’d like to take your career before you start studying. 
Throughout this degree, you’ll benefit from a personal concierge service who will help you realise the direction you’d like to take in life. During this process, your team will help you consider your past experiences in both life and work to decide on the next step for your career. 
Once your dedicated team has helped you envision your future, they’ll give you the tools to achieve your new-found goals by creating a unique study plan. 
Your plan will draw upon your existing experience and the future needs of your career through the course-long core subject, &#39;Developing Your Professional Practice&#39;. 
For the remainder of your course structure, you’ll have the freedom to mix and match subjects from different areas of interest, or stay within one discipline, creating a course that is uniquely ‘you’. 
Are you an accounting professional looking to improve presentation skills? You may choose to study a subject in theatre alongside a subject in business. The choice is yours.
Designed for online learning, the Graduate Certificate of Professional Practice is a degree that prioritises how you learn, as well as what you learn – allowing you to build and experience a course unlike any other

Benefit from a personal concierge service throughout your degree. Your dedicated team will work with you to refine your goals and create a unique course structure. Draw on areas of passion and experience to achieve your goals.

Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice

The Master of Professional Accounting is the best way  for graduates of undergraduate degrees in non-accounting disciplines to gain entry to the professional accounting bodies. The course is open to graduates but non graduates may enter following successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Accounting. The course covers introductory as well as advanced units in financial and management accounting, finance, tax and company law and auditing. On successful completion, graduates can apply for Associate Membership of the Professional Accounting Bodies. The course is accredited by the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and CPA Australia. It meets the entry requirements of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ), CPA Australia and the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).

Invest in yourself and become a globally in-demand accountant. Gain your MPA and graduate work ready and eligible for industry memberships including CPA Australia. If you’re a non-accounting graduate looking to enter the business world, start here!

Master of Professional Accounting

The Graduate Certificate in Accounting is a course that will service the needs of students requiring four or fewer units for accreditation with the professional accounting bodies. It can serve as an entry and exit point for the Master of Professional Accounting. The course comprises four units (that is 24 credit points) and is usually used to supplement existing studies in accounting to satisfy the entry requirements of the professional accounting organisations. Subjects are drawn from the Master of Professional Accounting and may cover introductory as well as advanced units in accounting, finance, systems, law, auditing, economics and business statistics.

If you've previously studied accounting and need just four more units to apply for accreditation, this could be the course for you. Cover areas such as finance systems, law, auditing, economics and business statistics. Choose to continue studying for your Masters. 

Graduate Certificate in Accounting

Strategic Project Management for Sport and Events

Sport Management in the Global Context

This introductory subject will thoroughly prepare you for later postgraduate subjects in the accounting stream, while equipping you with financial skills that you can apply immediately in the workplace.You must complete this subject if you are seeking Professional Accounting recognition.In this subject you will examine the basic financial statements that summarise an entity’s financial transactions and learn to record economic transactions in the accounting records. You will explore the fundamentals of preparing or understanding published financial statements with a focus on the double-entry book-keeping system for analysing, summarising, and recording business transactions in an organisation’s accounting system for decision making.This subject offers a wide range of resources to support different approaches to learning. You may complete assessments on demand, enabling you to accelerate your study to complete the subject early.

Introductory Accounting

Are you interested in developing and applying statistical models for the natural or social sciences? Do you want to learn more about the principles of designing a data collection? This subject will help you develop the core skills and knowledge needed for experimental designs and applied statistical models that are used in many scientific fields. Studying this subject, you will learn to develop and analyse various types of linear regression models which are the foundation of many statistical analyses. You will also explore some common experimental designs such as factorial design and randomised block design. Focusing on both the theoretical and technical aspects of key statistical concepts, topics include multiple linear regression with quantitative and qualitative explanatory variables, polynomial regression and generalised linear models.

Statistical Modelling and Experimental Design

Innovation in diverse scientific contexts, from livestock experiments to analysis of Martian soils, relies on statistics. Statistical methods are used universally to better understand the importance of observations and experiments, and to help us to investigate and explain the ways complex systems work. This subject offers you an opportunity to develop an introductory understanding of the fundamentals of statistics – invaluable whether you are interested in the life, environmental or physical sciences. Developing your statistical literacy through a combination of theory and hands-on exercises using statistical computing, you will learn how to present and interpret data for a common set of statistical methods.Topics include exploratory data analysis, randomness associated with experimental data, statistical modelling, sampling, probability, regression, analysis of variance, and tests of significance.

Introduction to Statistical Modelling

Sport and event practitioners manage projects and need to harness a wide variety of resources to meet finite goals. This subject will equip you with the management skills you need to successfully establish sports teams and competitions, manage sporting events and promotional campaigns, develop and manage facilities, and develop fitness programs. You will learn to apply a well-structured project management approach that works in the sports industry, and more specifically, in sports events management. By studying this subject, you will develop knowledge of a team-based system of management, which is common in the sports industry, and blends various resources to achieve the desired outcomes.

Explore the sports industry, its management and the global marketplace for sports in this engaging unit. You will examine and analyse sporting leagues, teams, competitions and events, as well as individual components of sport and the sports industry. Drawing on a range of information, readings and resources as well as international case studies, you will examine the global sport management environment across many levels from professional to amateur. By studying this subject, you will develop a general knowledge of the management of sport and the global marketplace across many jurisdictions and apply this to business-related issues.

Mathematics and statistics have important applications in finance, management, business and economics. Studying this subject will equip you with the skills in mathematics and statistics to solve real-life issues in the workplace. Topics you will investigate include business mathematics, differentiation, optimisation, integration, matrix algebra and mathematics relevant to finance and management. You will also explore descriptive statistics, discrete probability distributions, continuous probability distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing.

Quantitative Techniques for Management

A strong and detailed understanding of professional ethics is essential for a career in accounting and financial advice. This subject will equip you with the essential knowledge you need to make ethical decisions and give you skills to help you stand tall in your profession. You will explore the major normative theories of ethics and deepen your understanding of ethical decision-making and reflective practice. By examining and discussing descriptive theories of ethics, you will gain insight into influences on ethical decision-making, including cognitive biases. You will investigate concepts of professions and professionalism, and analyse, compare and contrast the roles and contents of professional body codes.

Dive into ethics in the world of accounting and financial advice. Learn the major theories of ethics and investigate professionalism in the field. 

Professional Ethics

Businesses rely on people working together to achieve a common goal. This practical subject will equip you with the skills to interact individually, and collaboratively with a variety of stakeholders in professional situations. Studying this subject you will hone your communication skills. You will explore the role of communication, creativity and professional identity in business, and apply this knowledge to business problems. This subject will help you to lay the foundations for developing your own professional identity as a confident, capable and reliable businessperson, ready to respond to opportunities and challenges in the workplace.

Communication for Business

This subject examines the fundamental principles of income tax law, including capital gains. You will gain an understanding of the workings and implications of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 and cognate legislation such as the Taxation Administration Act 1953 and the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986. This subject will help you to understand the complexities of how taxation law operates – including the working of the goods and services tax under A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999. You will also explore the principles of statutory interpretation, while developing your legal research, writing and critical thinking skills to benefit your ongoing professional development.

Taxation Law

This subject is available to non-law students only and provides a comprehensive introduction to the legal principles for commercial associations with an emphasis on corporations. You will explore a wide range of topics including sole traders, partnerships and the law of agency, trusts (discretionary, unit, and hybrid) and joint ventures as well as superannuation entities, the function and structure of companies, corporate governance, member&#39;s rights and corporate liability. Additionally, you will examine corporate finance, takeovers and schemes of arrangement, financial records, financial reporting and audit requirements and companies in distress. In doing so, you will build a broad understanding of the nature and scope of corporation law, as well as your critical thinking and legal reasoning skills.

Principles of Corporation Law

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