Undergraduate Major

Accounting

Accounting prepares you for the business world. Learn how to solve financial problems, negotiate and become a trusted and respected decision-maker in any industry.

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Murdoch code
MJ-ACCA
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Full Time or Part Time
Selection rank
70
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Overview

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

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Total credit points: 24

Unit code Unit name Credit points
Major24 credit points
Required Units24 credit points
BSL165Foundations of Business Law3
BUS140Introduction to Finance3
BUS163Introduction to Accounting3
BUS171Foundations of Economics3
BUS285Technology and Accounting Processes3
BUS287Management Accounting3
BUS304Accounting Theory and Accountability3
BUS356Contemporary Financial Accounting3
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English Requirements

You must meet a minimum standard in English to study at Murdoch, which for most courses can be demonstrated by providing evidence that you have completed Year 11 and 12 in Australia at any level if you are a domestic student, or through either English proficiency tests, university preparation courses, English language courses, previous tertiary study or vocational education.

Advanced Standing

Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing. Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.

Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.

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This information applies to courses offered at our Australian campuses only. Courses offered at our Dubai  and Singapore campuses or delivered by Open Universities Australia may have different requirements.

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Instead of paying an overall course fee, you pay for the individual units you enrol in. The total course cost will vary depending on the units you choose.

Following your successful application, you’ll receive a Letter of Offer which will contain specific course and fee information.

If you are applying for an undergraduate course, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place. Postgraduate programs are full fee paying, unless indicated otherwise in your Letter of Offer.

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