Overview
Overview
This postgraduate accounting course is suitable if you have previously completed an accounting degree recognised by CPA Australia. The program enables you to build the advanced skills and knowledge to provide high-level advice to management and governing bodies, and to undertake leadership positions within the workplace.
In this course, you may concurrently enrol in the professional level of the CPA Program with CPA Australia. You can receive tuition from experiences academics for the CPA Program professional-level, to prepare you for the external CPA Program examinations.
When you have completed this course, you will have an advanced level of knowledge in the three core areas of auditing, financial accounting and managerial accounting, and further your accounting career.
Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.
How this course will make you industry ready
We are the only Western Australian university that offers students the opportunity to obtain a postgraduate qualification and tuition for the CPA Program.
Similar courses are offered by universities in the Eastern states. The minimum duration of their courses is 2.5 years. Our course is only 1.5 years.
Note: If you wish to do the CPA Program, you must be enrolled in the CPA Program administered by CPA Australia. You must also register for and sit the CPA Australia exams. You are responsible for all CPA Program fees including CPA Program segment exam fees.
In order to enrol in the CPA Program, it is your responsibility to ensure that you are qualified and able to meet the requirements for associate membership for CPA Australia.
What jobs can the Accounting CPA Australia Extension Studies course lead to?
Graduates may find employment with organisations in both the private and public sectors and with accounting firms.
What you'll learn
- Apply principles of financial accounting, managerial accounting, governance and auditing to grasp theoretical underpinnings of the discipline.Extend knowledge base with original research and application of business research methods.
- Apply critical and analytical thinking to develop innovative solutions to complex problems in relevant business fields
- Locate, extract and critically appraise decision useful information related to relevant topics from sources within an organisation and from external sources
- Use of effectively structured financial or other appropriate language to communicate for a range of purposes to a professional audience.
- Use and evaluate electronic resources to effectively interrogate databases, analyse data, collect information and present it in a professional manner.
- Develop ongoing professional, self-directed and reflective education relating to developments and changes in the industry.
- Recognise the global and multi perspective nature of accounting and related disciplines; applying international financial reporting standards and appreciate the information requirements of a global financial system.
- Recognise that cultural practices and differences impact upon commercial endeavours and interpersonal relations.
- Exhibit professional and ethical approach to analysing and reporting commercial activities; demonstrate leadership, collaborative and independent qualities when required.