Master of Professional Accounting (Advanced)

From mining to music, accounting is vital to every organisation in every industry. It's an essential part of an organisation's decision-making, planning, and even performance evaluation.

In this two-year advanced Master program, you'll learn about accounting processes and business finance. You'll work on project teams with your peers to put accounting theory into practice with our industry partners, gaining real-world experience.

3 reasons to study a Master of Professional Accounting at Murdoch

1. Get practical experience through projects where you'll work with our academics, other students and industry partners. Our industry partners include government agencies, mining companies, accounting firms, IT service firms and real estate companies.
2. Select electives in wider business units such as leadership, strategic management and applied business research to further enhance your employability.
3. Our teaching staff have won teaching excellence awards, secured grant funding from CPA Australia, published journal articles and are actively involved in the industry.

Develop your skills

Build essential skills and knowledge to meet your career or study goals. Topics you'll cover include:

• Accounting for managers
• Business finance
• Accounting processes
• Corporate accounting
• Taxation principles

Your future career

A postgraduate qualification can help you further your current career and move into a more senior role, or help you change career paths to pursue new opportunities.

Depending on your own situation and career aspirations, your career could include roles such as:

• Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
• Accountant
• Management or Cost Accountant
• Taxation Accountant, Agent or Consultant
• Auditor

Good financial management is needed across all industries. You could find yourself working in government, media, advertising, finance, and other areas of business or non-government organisations (NGOs).

If you want to work in professional accounting you could apply for membership of the professional Australian accounting bodies, including membership of CPA Australia or Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Professional recognition

This course is accredited by CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ).

Note: We offer this Master of Professional Accounting (Advanced) for international students. We also offer a Master of Professional Accounting for domestic students looking for a career change to accounting and all it has to offer.

For admission into one of our postgraduate degrees, you must provide evidence of the successful completion of a relevant degree from a recognised university, in addition to meeting Murdoch’s prescribed English Language requirements. At a minimum, to qualify for one of our postgraduate degrees, you must meet one of the following requirements.

Please note that entry requirements are dependent on the course you wish to study and as such, your specific course may have different entry requirements:

• A qualification equivalent to an AQF Associate Degree
• Bachelors degree of AQF Level 7 in relevant discipline
• Bachelors degree of AQF Level 7 with relevant work experience
• Bachelors degree of AQF Level 7 with specific professional registration
• Postgraduate qualification of AQF Level 8 or above
• Submission of a Portfolio and/or substantial work experience

IELTS: Score: 6.5, with no band less than 6.0.

TOEFL: Score: 79+, with writing 21; speaking 18; reading 13; listening 13.

PEARSON: Score: 64+, with no communicative skill below 60.

CAMBRIDGE: Score: 176+, with no skill less than 169.

The path you take when you apply to Murdoch will vary depending on who you are and what you want to study.