Major type

Postgraduate

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.

Please note. This version of the Accounting major is only available to students enrolled in the combined Master of Commerce and Master of Professional Accounting degree.

Requirements 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 (18 credit points) must be ACCT coded units of study):

• ACCT6002 International Accounting
• ACCT6003 Financial Statement Analysis
• ACCT6005 Management Control Systems
• ACCT6006 Advanced Managerial Accounting
• ACCT6014 Designing Accounting Systems
• ACCT6015 Extended Performance Reporting
• ACCT6116 Corporate Collapse
• ACCT6118 Public Sector Accounting
• ACCT6119 Public Sector Accounts and Accountability
• ACCT6120 Corporate Governance and Accountability
• ACCT6101 Special Topic in Accounting
• CLAW6026 Concepts of Australian Taxation
• CLAW6028 Corporate Governance, Law and Ethics (New unit for 2009)
• FINC6017 Mergers and Acquisitions
• FINC6021 Corporate Valuation
• INFS6012 Business Process Integration
• INFS6013 Risk Management and BIS Assurance
• INFS6015 Business Process Management
• INFS6016 Technology-Enabled Business Innovation
• INFS6101 Special Topic in Business Information Systems
• WORK6119 The Innovative Firm
• WORK6121 Founders of Enterprise (New unit for 2009)

Please note:

1. ACCT5001 is the prerequisite unit for most of the ACCT units of study. Other prerequisites may apply. Information on prerequisites is available from www.econ.usyd.edu.au/pgunits/.
2. Units of study marked with an "*" are not available for 2009 enrolments.

Availability of this major

This version of this major is available under the Master of Commerce and Master of Professional Accounting only.

The following is a list of the elective units of study from the Faculty of Economics and Business which are available for enrolment this year.

For details of the current availability of non-Faculty of Economics and Business units of study (e.g. ECOP units), please refer to the University's Online Unit of Study Handbook

• ACCT6002 International Accounting
• ACCT6003 Financial Statement Analysis
• ACCT6005 Management Control Systems
• ACCT6006 Advanced Managerial Accounting
• ACCT6014 Designing Accounting Systems
• ACCT6015 Extended Performance Reporting
• ACCT6101 Special Topic in Accounting
• ACCT6116 Corporate Collapse
• ACCT6118 Public Sector Accounting
• ACCT6119 Public Sector Accounts & Accountability
• ACCT6120 Corporate Governance and Accountability
• CLAW6026 Concepts of Australian Taxation
• FINC6017 Mergers and Acquisitions
• FINC6021 Corporate Valuation
• INFS6012 Business Process Integration
• INFS6013 Risk Management and BIS Assurance
• INFS6015 Business Process Management
• INFS6016 Technology Enabled Business Innovation
• INFS6101 Special Topic in Business Info Systems
• WORK6119 The Innovative Firm

• Master of Commerce and Master of Professional Accounting (FC061)

• Discipline of Accounting