Accounting

Accounting is essential to every industry - from your favourite products and platforms to your favourite sports teams and causes. This degree will give you the professional and creative skills you need to shape business interactions in a creative, well-informed and ethical way.

You'll learn to identify business opportunities, analyse problems and solve them. You'll explore how to make decisions about investments, lending or borrowing money, and providing goods for cash or on credit.

You'll also learn to interpret accounting standards and Australian taxation acts, as you gain new skills in financial statement analysis, forecasting and budgeting, negotiation, ethical decision-making and problem-solving.

3 reasons to study Accounting at Murdoch

1. Qualify for a career where your skills will be in demand regardless of what the economy is doing.
2. Gain knowledge by combining theory and practice to understand how business operations are captured, and information is provided for the ultimate in business planning and decision-making.
3. Boost your business insight with analytical, technical, and practical accounting skills to prepare you for a global career.

What you'll learn

Build the knowledge and skills you need to meet your career or study goals. Here are some of the things you'll learn:

• Management accounting
• Technology and accounting processes
• Corporate finance
• Auditing
• Taxation
• Company law

Your future career

You could find yourself working as a professionally qualified accountant in a range of industries, in established and emerging businesses, in consultancies and in the not-for-profit sector. Careers could include:

• Company, Taxation or Forensic Accountants and Auditors
• Chief Financial Officer or Financial Controller
• Risk Managers, Business Consultants, or Investment Advisers
• Project Managers or Portfolio Managers

Many of our students go on to become graduate accountants at one of the Big 4 firms (EY, PWC, Deloitte and KPMG). Other recent graduates have been accepted into graduate programs at large oil, gas and mining companies.

Previous admission information is available at Murdoch Admission Information - Business

Professional accreditation

Bachelor of Business (Accounting) is professionally accredited by CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ).

Professional recognition

To meet the requirements for entry to the Chartered Accountants Program (CAANZ) and to meet the academic requirements for admission to CPA Australia membership, students must complete the Bachelor of Business (Accounting), with MJ-ACCA Accounting Major plus the following 4 units:

• BSL305 Company Law
• BUS286 Corporate Finance
• BUS303 Taxation
• BUS306 Auditing

Your document checklist

Ready to apply? Before you start, make sure you have some or all of the following documentation ready for a quick application.

• Completed official Academic Transcripts and Certificates of Completion
• ATAR results
• STAT Test results

Your document checklist

Ready to apply? Before you start, make sure you have some or all of the following documentation ready for a quick application.

• Complete or incomplete official Academic Transcripts and Certificates of Completion - both original and English translated versions
• English Language Proficiency Document (if available)