Bachelor of Accounting (Professional Accounting)
Unlock an exciting career based on professional accounting skills. An accounting degree with professional accreditation from CPA Australia.
About the Course
Start a career that is always in demand and become an integral part of modern businesses with UniSQ’s Bachelor of Accounting. You’ll develop your professional identity through confident communication skills, enabling you to deliver specialist advice and decisions to diverse stakeholders. You will build technical and professional knowledge and skills in financial and management accounting, auditing, information technology, taxation, business law, and ethics. Working alongside industry partners on real-world issues, students of the Bachelor of Accounting will immerse themselves in a variety of authentic case studies, as well as a capstone project in your final year.
Course Entry Requirements
ATAR - 60.0 or equivalent; proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
Completed VET qualifications can be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
Work and Life experience may be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
Course Structure
Year 1
- ACC1201 Data Insights and Financial Performance
- ACC1202 Accounting Systems and Processes
- CIS1000 Digital Disruption
- STA1004 Fundamental Statistics for Accountants
- FIN1101 Corporate Finance
- MGT1101 Human Capabilities for Business
- ECO1201 Fundamental Economics
- 1 x Elective
Year 2
- LAW1501 Business Law and Ethics
- ACC2201 Financial Reporting and Analysis A
- ACC2204 Audit and Assurance
- ACC2205 Management Account A
- 4 x Electives
Year 3
- ACC3207 Accounting Systems and Critical Perspectives
- ACC3206 Management Accounting B
- MGT3303 The Equipped Graduate
- LAW3500 Taxation Law A
- ACC3201 Financial Reporting and Analysis B
- 3 x Electives
Award requirements
Completion of 24 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.
Exit points
Associate Degree of Business.
Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:
- Understand and apply the required technical and professional competencies of a recognised accounting professional in a range of business contexts.
- Evaluate inputs from a variety of sources and stakeholders to ensure that the interests of others (including organisational, cultural and environmental), and the fundamental ethical values of integrity, objectivity and confidentiality are recognised.
- Evaluate the use of digital technologies, mechanisation, computerisation, and/or automation to support current and future business processes as a future focused accounting professional.
- Communicate specialist advice and decisions and work with to others to achieve organisational goals and provide professional expertise.
- Exercise professional judgement using critical and reflective thinking and self-directed learning to continue developing as a self-reliant, ethical, and responsible accounting professional.
- Leverage a well-developed professional identity by exhibiting the human capabilities and knowledge demanded of professional accountants and by modern organisations.
