Expand your depth of knowledge and career opportunities by studying the Master of Professional Accounting. You'll graduate with the specialised skills and knowledge to practise as an accountant, specialising in your chosen field of business.

The Master of Professional Accounting is typically 8, 12 or 16 credit points. The exact number of credit points you study depends on how much credit you receive as recognition of prior learning (RPL) –your professional experience and previous qualifications –which can save you time and money.

To complete the Master of Professional Accounting, students must attain a total of 16 credit points, consisting of 11 credit points of core units and 5 credit points of electives, plus completion of the compulsory 0-credit point module, MAI010 Academic Integrity Module. Most units (think of units as 'subjects') are equal to 1 credit point.

The Master of Professional Accounting is constantly reviewed, and where necessary revised, to ensure it meets the most up-to-date standards and expectations of professional accounting bodies.
With real-world skills and awareness of current trends, you’ll be ready to hit the ground running in your chosen field.

As a graduate of this course, you can seek employment in areas of accounting such as:

• • financial accounting
• • auditing
• • taxation
• • management accounting
• • public sector accounting
• • forensic accounting.

As a qualified accountant, you can choose to work in a range of different settings depending on your skills and preferences, such as:

• • large firms
• • small public practices
• • all levels of government
• • law firms
• • banking and financial services
• • not-for-profit organisations
• • educational organisations
• • self-employment.

Given the fundamental shift of accountants moving towards wide-ranging advisory roles, career opportunities are also becoming available in other vocations, including roles as:

• • investment advisers
• • market analysts
• • tax consultants
• • advisers in mergers and acquisitions
• • corporate recovery and insolvency
• • treasury banking
• • e-commerce or information technology.

Depending on your previous qualifications and professional experience, your course will be 1, 1.5 or 2 years duration. Entry will be based on performance in: Bachelor Honours (AQF8) degree

IELTS - Overall 6.5 No band lower than 6

TOEFL IBT - 79 Writing 21

TOEFL PBT - 577 Writing 4.5

C1 PROFICIENCY and C2 PROFICIENCY- 176 No band less than 169

PTE - 58 No less than 50 in each skill

OET - Overall C+