Bachelor
The Bachelor of Business (Accounting) course provides you with strong foundation skills and technical knowledge required to successfully enter the workforce as an accountant. Upon graduation, you will be equipped with a specialist understanding of accounting and its associated business fields.
A rewarding career – professionally and financially – awaits you upon completion of your Bachelor of Business (Accounting) at Stott’s College.
Completed Year 12 or equivalent. The minimum age is 18 years old.
International students must also demonstrate that they have English language ability equivalent to IELTS 6.0 (Academic).
Competency to IELTS 6.0 means that the student has documentary evidence of having completed an IELTS exam at an official IELTS testing centre or an equivalent recognised English language test, within the previous twelve months of the student’s proposed start date for the Bachelor programs and that the student was given an overall score of 6 with no single band lower than 5.5.
The Bachelor of Business (Accounting) course at Stott’s College is designed to provide you with an accounting specialisation in a broader business context, ensuring you can work in a number of roles in different organisations or manage your own business. The course will also allow successful graduates to become eligible for membership of CPA – Australia, Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand (CA ANZ), and the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).
Using both theoretical and practical examples, you will be taught the skills to be adaptable and proactive in the rapidly changing world of commerce.
You will gain a comprehensive knowledge in a broad range of areas including in business, ethics and corporate social responsibility, management, law, marketing, and specialised areas in accounting and business decision-making, management accounting, auditing, taxation, information technology and business statistics.
Upon completion of the course, you will have the ability to analyse and reflect on the role of accounting processes and principles, finance, financial reporting and planning in businesses and corporations. As a result, you can move directly into a career as an accountant either as an employee or a small business owner; or go on to further study at post-graduate level.
The Bachelor of Business (Accounting) is a fully accredited Australian higher education course completed over a three-year period. The course will be delivered through teacher-led classroom delivery in the form of lectures and tutorials. Most units require students to attend a two-hour lecture and a one-hour tutorial.
The course has been carefully designed to allow you to incrementally develop knowledge and skills. More introductory features are covered in earlier stages of the course and there is an appropriate sequence of units which lead towards achievement of more advanced features in later stages.
The following table indicates the suggested sequence of units studied as well as relevant pre-requisites.
The course consists of 14 core units, 7 major units stream and 3 elective units.
You will study 4 units per semester. Each unit consists of a 3 hour teaching block and you will also undertake 7 hours of personal study per unit per week. The number of days per week depends on your timetable and it is most likely to be some part of 2 – 3 days per week.
If you have completed prior tertiary studies, you may be eligible for some credit exemptions. For further information, please refer to our Awarding of Credit Policy.