Accounting Major (Master of Commerce and combined Master of Commerce programs)
Description
A career at a challenging level of professional accounting is simply one option available to graduates with this prestigious qualification. A postgraduate major in Accounting opens up a world of exciting possibilities for the ambitious student in further research as well as the global financial sector.
The Accounting major equips students with an advanced level understanding of issues and practices related to an ever-changing global environment. The core units provide essential knowledge in financial reporting, international bank management and financial services and an overview of global financial institutions and banking. The course offers a comprehensive introduction to the legal environment of business, with extensive attention paid to contract, corporations and property law.
The course examines key issues surrounding mergers and acquisitions, as well as bank management, and provides students with the necessary resources for interpretation, reporting, prediction, and assessment in the public and private financial sectors. With its emphasis on risk assessment and management, an accounting major at the postgraduate level qualifies the student in the development of modern financial theory and its application to financial decision-making.
Please Note: Students who wish to complete an Accounting major under the Master of Commerce and Master of Professional Accounting will need to follow slightly different requirements for a major. Please refer to the Accounting (Master of Commerce and Master of Professional Accounting) entry for further details if you wish to complete an accounting major under this combined degree.
Requirements for the major
Students who intend to complete a major in Accounting must complete the foundation level unit of study as a prerequisite for the major:
To obtain an Accounting major, students must complete four elective units of study (24 credit points) from the following (At least three of the electives must be 'ACCT' coded units of study):
- ACCT6001 Intermediate Financial Reporting
- ACCT6002 International Accounting
- ACCT6003 Financial Statement Analysis
- ACCT6005 Management Control Systems
- ACCT6006 Advanced Managerial Accounting
- ACCT6007 Contemporary Issues in Auditing
- ACCT6010 Advanced Financial Reporting
- ACCT6014 Designing Accounting Systems
- ACCT6015 Extended Performance Reporting
- ACCT6116 Corporate Collapse
- ACCT6118 Public Sector Accounting
- CLAW6002 Corporations Law
- CLAW6026 Concepts of Australian Taxation
- CLAW6028 Corporate Governance, Law and Ethics
- FINC6017 Mergers and Acquisitions
- FINC6021 Corporate Valuation
- INFS6012 Business Process Integration
- INFS6013 Information Risk, Governance and Assurance (formerly titled 'Risk Management and BIS Assurance')
- INFS6015 Business Process Management
- INFS6016 Technology-Enabled Business Innovation
- INFS6101 Information Systems Research A (formerly titled 'Special Topic in Business Information Systems')
- INFS6106 Information Systems Research B (new unit for 2010)
- WORK6119 The Innovative Firm
Please Note:
- The units listed above are those units which are being offered for the current year only. For details of units of study that available as electives in this major, please refer to the Faculty handbook.
- ACCT5001 is the prerequisite unit for most of the 'ACCT' units of study in this major. For non-'ACCT' units of study other prerequisites may apply. Please check the particular units of study for details of prerequisite requirements.
Availability of this major
This version of this major is available under the following degrees:
- Master of Commerce
- Master of Commerce and Master of Facilities Management
- Master of Commerce and Master of Logistics Management
- Master of International Business and Master of Commerce,
- Master of Transport Management and Master of Commerce
Students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma in Commerce or the Master of Professional Accounting may choose units from this major subject area as electives in their course.
Students who wish to complete an Accounting major under the Master of Commerce and Master of Professional Accounting will need to follow slightly different requirements for a major. Please refer to the Accounting (Master of Commerce and Master of Professional Accounting) entry for further details if you wish to complete an accounting major under this combined degree.