Professional Accounting (12 subjects)

The accredited Professional Accounting (12 subjects) program from Charles Sturt University provides a professional accounting qualification designed to meet the academic requirements of both CPA Australia and the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.  

TheMaster of Professional Accounting (12 subjects) from Charles Sturt University is designed to build on non-accounting undergraduate studies or an overseas undergraduate accounting degree that is not recognised by Australian professional accounting bodies.

Key facts

• You'll start your accounting course by studying the concepts and principles of accounting practice, as well as the impact of the business environment on accounting theory and its application, and the regulatory requirements that control the accounting process.

• You'll also learn to understand and apply principles and analytical techniques from economics, commercial law, business communications and quantitative methods in the accounting context.

• You can study this postgraduate accounting course online. You'll learn through online study materials, video-captured lectures, online meetings and subject forums. You can also fast-track your degree by completing up to four subjects a session.

• If you choose to undertake the Master of Professional Accounting at our Melbourne or Sydney specialty campuses, the course can only be studied on campus. No online classes are offered for this course.

Career opportunities

• As a graduate of the Master of Professional Accounting (12 subjects), you could provide auditing, advisory, taxation, insolvency and recovery services to clients, or put your budget planning, management accounting, internal auditing, strategic planning and policy formation skills to work in any sized organisation.

• You could also make a difference by applying your financial accountability, budgeting and performance measurement, policy formulation and cost-benefit analysis skills for the public good.

• Whatever industry you'd like to work in and wherever you'd like to live, Charles Sturt University's accounting courses can take you there.

Courses include:

• Accounting Standards, Application and Disclosures

• Global Perspectives of Accounting

• Risk Based Auditing

• Interpreting and Communicating Accounting

• Data Analysis for Financial Decision-making

• Contemporary Cost Accounting for Management Decision-making