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

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.Please Note: This program can only be studied part time.

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

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Building on your understanding of financial accounting and reporting requirements for organisations of varying complexity, this subject introduces you to the major conceptual and technical aspects of contemporary auditing.  Studying this subject, you will explore the societal roles and responsibilities of auditors, including ethical and legal obligations. You will examine professional auditing techniques, learn how to apply these techniques to financial statements, and analyse issues associated with sample selection.

Auditing

If you want to build wealth through equities for yourself or your clients, you need the skills to identify which companies should, and should not, be included in an investment portfolio. Studying this subject will equip you with the tools and techniques that financial analysts can adopt to pick apart companies’ financial statements for stock selection. Honing your knowledge of financial accounting and corporate finance, you will build the financial statement analysis skills to conduct a robust examination of ASX-listed companies as prospective investments. You will examine the processes involved in evaluating corporate financial situations and explore the use of financial metrics through ratio and credit analyses. You will also analyse and evaluate the value of corporations and determine any financial distress situations.

Financial Statement Analysis

Your ability to discriminate between fact and opinion in the context of accounting theory and reports is essential in contemporary accounting practice. Studying this subject, you will explore accounting theory, financial reporting and regulations and hone your critical cognitive and communication skills to add value in your role. You will examine theories that underpin accounting methods, regulations and disclosure by reporting entities, including normative and positive accounting theories, new conceptual frameworks for accounting reports, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Integrated Reporting (IR). You will also explore unregulated corporate reporting decisions, capital market and behavioural research in financial reporting and measurement in financial accounting. Examining the nature of ethical decision making, you will assess the role of ethics in the accounting profession, including in the context of fraud and failure.

Accounting Theory and Research

Build on your financial accounting knowledge with this subject to expand your real-world business skills for working with Australian reporting entities. Studying this subject will equip you with the specialist knowledge to apply several accounting standards for external financial reporting in practical situations. You will explore various financial reporting issues pertaining to Australian reporting entities. This includes examining financial accounting processes and requirements related to various assets, liabilities, owners&#39; equity, income and expense. Through practical assignments, you will develop the skills and knowledge for creating and interpreting statements of financial position, comprehensive income and cash flow. You will also analyse and apply theories, concepts and information from a range of sources to solve business problems.

Intermediate Financial Accounting

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

Hone your management accounting skills to confidently provide information and analyses of planning and control functions, supporting short-to-medium and long-term decision making and the efficient use of the tangible and intangible resources in contemporary business organisations. In this practically focused subject, you will build skills to add value to your role or advance your career in management accounting and related areas. Your skills will be useful in small, medium and large organisations in a range of industries including manufacturing, retailing and the service sector. Through extensive case analysis using problem-based learning, you will explore cost-volume-profit analyses, short, medium and long-term decision making, flow of cost and cost behaviour patterns, alternative costing systems, direct and indirect costs variance analyses and budgeting and performance evaluation.

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