Master of Professional Accounting (Advanced Standing)
Master of Professional Accounting (Advanced Standing)
This professionally accredited degree has been designed to provide graduates of non-accounting disciplines with a broad-based accounting and business qualification to broaden their career prospects. The Master of Professional Accounting (MPA) is designed primarily for students from non-accounting backgrounds who want to develop an understanding of the technical and social…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This professionally accredited degree has been designed to provide graduates of non-accounting disciplines with a broad-based accounting and business qualification to broaden their career prospects.
The Master of Professional Accounting (MPA) is designed primarily for students from non-accounting backgrounds who want to develop an understanding of the technical and social dimensions in accounting and business. It is a broad-based qualification that combines core accounting studies with authentic learning experiences delivered through industry-informed work-integrating learning subjects and global study experiences.
Improve your skills
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand have helped design RMIT’s postgraduate professional accounting courses to ensure we’re in-step with the future needs of professional bodies and employers.
What you will study
This program combines core and elective studies in accounting, plus the opportunity for short-term study overseas. So while you discuss how international accounting standards apply to a range of industries with world experts, you’re earning academic credit.
Develop an understanding of:
the technical and social dimensions of accounting and business
professional and cross-cultural skills required in global work places
the expectations facing accounting professionals through projects with industry and community based organisations
the importance of management accounting to effective decision-making through a major team project
The Master of Professional Accounting is designed primarily for students from non-accounting backgrounds who want to develop an understanding of the technical and social dimensions in accounting and business. It is a broad-based qualification that combines core accounting studies with authentic learning experiences delivered through industry-informed work-integrating learning subjects and global study experiences.
Career
Graduates may work in small, medium or large organisations in public accounting practice, commerce, government or the not-for-profit sector. You may even consider the exciting possibility of starting your own business.
Graduate roles may include:
Working with senior managers on planning and disclosing social and environmental activities of the organisation
Monitoring and reporting on the cash flow and financial resources of the organisation
Preparing information for organisational strategies
Preparing integrated reports for financial and sustainability reporting
Participating in the preparation and evaluation of business plans
Participating in the development and review of performance management systems
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Since its establishment in 1887, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT) has been meeting the needs of the community surrounding it. Originally a Working Men’s College, RMIT showed its flexibility during World War Two, training over 20,000 servicemen in communications to help with the war effort.Now, it is a true pioneer in international education, championing cross-border study opportunities with campuses in various countries. Granted formal university status in 1992, RMIT is ranked 21st in the world for universities that are less than 50 years old.RMIT is the largest higher education institution in Australia, currently with more than 82,000 students. With nearly 20% of those students coming from overseas, it is a university that truly welcomes diversity and is a melting pot of different cultures. RMIT has three campuses in Vietnam, a European hub in Barcelona, an office in Indonesia, and partners with 200+ institutions in 42 countries to provide study opportunities worldwide.
