詹姆斯库克大学

Turn your undergraduate degree into a career in accounting with the fully-accredited Master of Professional Accounting at JCU. Develop the skills and knowledge required to become a practising accountant with flexible study options.

What to expect

Focus on essential areas of accounting including management, corporate finance, auditing, business and taxation law, data analysis, and economics for sustainability. Explore introductory and advanced issues in accounting and demonstrate your understanding through an applied research project.

Understand both historical and contemporary perspectives and evaluate social and environmental practices. Make recommendations and give informed advice with confidence. Develop your professional judgement to work independently and with integrity.

Master of Professional Accounting graduates are highly-skilled professionals who lead successful careers in finance.

Career Opportunities

JCU Accounting graduates have an in-depth knowledge of accounting and highly-developed professional judgement and reasoning skills.

Graduates pursue job opportunities in the public and private sector.

You could find employment as an accountant with this degree accredited by Certified Practising Accountants (CPA) Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

On successful completion of the Master of Professional Accounting, JCU graduates will be able to:

Critically analyse complex accounting-related knowledge and practice from both historical and contemporary perspectives

Evaluate contexts within which differing accounting performance reporting and monitoring methods should be integrated and applied

Evaluate sustainable economic, social and environmental practices and value systems from accounting disciplinary perspectives

Integrate advanced theoretical and technical accounting knowledge which includes a selection of auditing and assurance, finance, economics, quantitative methods, information systems, commercial law, corporation law and taxation law

Research and apply established concepts to solve business and professional practice problems

Critically analyse complex contemporary business issues using appropriate accounting models and techniques and make reasoned recommendations based on a synthesis of theory and evidence

Present complex business analyses and information appropriately to both accountants and non-accountants using:

- Effective oral presentation skills; and

- Clear and fluent written communication

Work effectively in achieving common goals, demonstrating both collaboration and leadership

Adapt accounting constructs and skills to diverse theoretical or practical situations

Exercise judgement under minimal supervision to solve emerging and/or advanced accounting problems in complex contexts using social, ethical, economic, regulatory and global perspectives

Seek and reflect on performance feedback to identify and action learning opportunities and self-improvements and initiate this process for others.