Diploma of Accounting
Diploma of Accounting
The Diploma of Accounting is a one-year full-time (or part-time equivalent) AQF level 5 qualification designed to enable students to acquire a broad and coherent knowledge of the key foundational theories and practices that underpin accounting practice as it operates in dynamic business contexts. ?Throughout the course, students will acquire…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The Diploma of Accounting is a one-year full-time (or part-time equivalent) AQF level 5 qualification designed to enable students to acquire a broad and coherent knowledge of the key foundational theories and practices that underpin accounting practice as it operates in dynamic business contexts.
?Throughout the course, students will acquire knowledge and skills including the underlying principles, concepts and technical knowledge that inform the work of para-professionals in the Accounting sphere. The units have been framed in a way that assures that they will be well orientated to work in innovative and entrepreneurial organisations.
??In addition, the course introduces students to the principles of management and effective business communication. Students study business statistics to complement studies in accounting and economics. The course also provides a foundational treatment of business ethics.
?GRADUATE ATTRIBUTES?
?Graduates will be able to assist accountants to identify problems and develop solutions through independent thinking. They will be able to operate in creative teams, their role in those teams being to add analytics and data of an accounting nature and to help integrate that data into the managerial discussion. Graduates of the course will be able to apply their accounting knowledge and skills with initiative and judgement and to responsibly and ethically adapt their knowledge and skills to a range of business and entrepreneurial contexts
?The graduate will have formed these attributes to a sufficient level of depth and sophistication to take them into the workplace or continue their studies to a higher level. A graduate of the Diploma of Accounting will be well placed to work as an assistant to a professional accountant in a range of workplace contexts and environments. Thus, graduates could be employed as an Accounting Clerk, Office Manager, Administrative Assistant, Accounts Payable Officer, Accounts Receivable Officer, Payroll Clerk or Bookkeeper. The framing of the course within an entrepreneurial context presents a unique value proposition designed to give graduates a competitive edge when competing for jobs in firms that see themselves as entrepreneurial and innovative.
REQUIREMENTS
Students whose first language is not English must demonstrate competency in the English language. English proficiency can be demonstrated by providing proof of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) overall test result of 6.0 (no band lower than 5.5 and writing at 6 or above) or equivalent English language test such as TOEFL or PTE.
Other acceptable evidence of English proficiency includes:
Completion of secondary education/undergraduate degree via the medium of English; or
Successful completion of Year 12 secondary schooling in Australia (minimum of 1 school year to be completed in Australia within the last 2 years); or
Successful completion of an Australian qualification recognised as at least AQF Certificate IV (minimum period of study of 1 school year within the last 2 years); or
Successful completion of a Tertiary Studies Foundation Program (minimum period of study of 1 school year).
International students who do not meet the specified English proficiency requirements may undertake an ELICOS (English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students) program prior to undertaking the course.
?In addition, all students (domestic and international) must be 18 years of age or over at the time that they commence the course for which they have applied.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The Crown Institute of Higher Education (CIHE) campus is located in North Sydney on Sydney’s beautiful harbour. The campus is designed to engage students in their learning and to get them working together. Its student cohorts are small for a more personalised student experience. The CIHE campus has a suite of fully equipped classrooms designed for engaged learning. CIHE offers the Bachelor of Accounting, accredited by ANZ and CPA Australia, and the Bachelor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
