The Master of Professional Accounting (Professional Practice) complements your non-accounting or partial accounting, or accounting but not equivalent to Australian accounting qualifications to meet the entry requirements for membership of CPA Australia and The Chartered Accountants of Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ).

This course focuses on the knowledge and skills required for practice as a certified practising or chartered accountant along with effective management, accountability and control, and effective decision-making for financial success.

You will develop technical and conceptual skills required to become a competent accountant as well as abilities to analyse, criticise and synthesise various accounting and related principles, methods and techniques.

Key study areas include: financial accounting, management accounting, accounting theory, information systems/technology, auditing, taxation, finance, company law, and corporate law. You will also combine academic studies with professional practice experience related to accountancy.

Completing a Master of Professional Accounting (Professional Practice) can lead to a wide range of career opportunities in small, medium and large organisations. As a graduate, you may become a financial accountant, management accountant, financial auditor, tax auditor/preparer, business/financial analyst, or work in a large multinational company or 'Big Four' accounting firm. Or, you could run your own businesses, work in a small local accounting firm, or work in other areas of business management.

Professional recognition

This conversion course enables graduates with non-accounting, partial accounting, or accounting but not equivalent to Australian accounting backgrounds to meet the academic requirements for membership of CPA Australia and The Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ).

This course is also available for students whose current qualifications only partially satisfy the application requirements of these accounting professional bodies.

The course will equip students with contemporary knowledge and skills required for professional practice as a certified practising accountant or chartered accountant. The course will provide the technical and conceptual skills required in a competent accountant, and will develop students' abilities to explore, analyse and synthesise various accounting and related principles, methods and techniques. Where students have prior CPA/CAANZ assessed exemptions and require electives to complete the total of 160 credit points, electives may be selected from this course, on approval of the Course Coordinator.