Graduate Certificate of Professional Accounting

at ATMC - Federation University - Melbourne Campus Australia

The Graduate Certificate of Management has been developed for managers and aspiring managers who have a degree in any discipline who now wish to move into general management to give themselves a competitive edge.

The Graduate Certificate of Professional Accounting has been developed as both an entry point and exit point for the Master of Professional Accounting. Please see Master of Professional Accounting for further program outline information.

A Bachelor of Commerce degree provides students with transferable skills needed to be leaders and thrive in the world of commerce and business.

The Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) is designed as a comprehensive program. It focuses on the courses needed for professional accreditation with the major professional bodies along with providing a well-defined career path for professionals in the world of commerce.

The Master of Professional Accounting (MPA) has been designed for students whose first degree is in a non-accounting field and provides you with a comprehensive program of study in accounting theory and practice that is recognised by both CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, enabling you to pursue a pathway to qualification as a professional accountant.

In addition to core subject areas of accounting, financial management and auditing. You will be introduced to related disciplines, including business law, taxation, information systems, economics, and quantitative methods.

This degree provides the opportunity to learn new programming languages, architecture, and paradigms to create new software applications for a successful career in the IT Industry. 

Course Outline
You will complete subjects in dynamic web development, data structures and algorithms and agile coding, in addition to electives that will add breadth and depth to your studies.

The curriculum reflects the current and future needs of practicing software developers, aimed to advance your skills in first and second year of the curriculum so that you can apply your knowledge to a final year project.

On completion, you may seek employment that involves identifying new areas of software process improvements to produce measurable business benefits. Your communication skills will be an asset in this area, as you report on project progress, anomalies, risks and issues.

Graduates may also be involved in software release and post-release activities, including product launches, and implementation roles such as installation, configuration, programming/customisation, integration, and data migration.

Study the Master of Business Administration (Health Services Management) and become a leader in the health industry. You’ll develop the skills and specialist knowledge to manage a multitude of various issues as they relate to the health care sector, including leadership, policy, practice, and evidence-based delivery. If you are currently working in the sector or aspiring to a management position or have a non-health background with interest in the healthcare industry, this is the degree for you.

The Bachelor of Information Technology (Mobile App Development) develops students to take on the rapidly growing mobile app industry, which now has hundreds of millions of users every day. This three-year degree will teach you the key IT skills you will need in the workplace, with a particular focus on designing and building mobile apps. You will also learn about the security risks involved with such technologies. You will study wireless communications, mobile networks, cloud computing and more.

Study the Master of Business Administration (International Business) to become a world business leader. You’ll develop the skills and specialist knowledge to be a manager within a multitude of areas, including leadership, policy, practice and evidence-based delivery.

This degree will enable students to apply strategic creativity and innovation to protect data using ethical hacking to test systems and security protocols.

Course Outline
Learn how to defend business, government and individual databases that hold sensitive data. Employment in this area has experienced strong growth over the last ten years and is forecast to continue.

Your specialisation in security will allow you to be on the frontline of the war in cyberspace and become familiar with methods attackers use. You will learn how to investigate and protect against security breaches on vulnerable private information, whilst developing an understanding of the security models provided by the major operating systems involved in modern computer networks.

Through core studies and practicals, you will delve into networks, their protocols and hardware, to investigate how these systems can be vulnerable to a malicious attack. Your problem-solving skills will come to the fore when ethical hacking – testing a system to break-in or to find weak points.

As a network architect, or an IT security specialist, you can look forward to a varied career in information security or IT operations.

The Bachelor of Business is a contemporary degree developed in collaboration with industry and designed to meet the needs of businesses now and in the future. 

Course Outline
Businesses are facing an unprecedented number of challenges and opportunities stemming from digital disruption and the rapid adoption of new technologies. There has never been a more exciting time to start your career in business, whether you are looking for a career in the corporate world or aspiring to be an entrepreneur.

Graduates gain a solid foundation in business management, entrepreneurship, critical thinking, teamwork, leadership, creativity and innovation, and interpersonal skills. These skills are in high demand from employers and central to succeeding in the rapidly changing business world.

Specialisation Options

• Banking and Finance
  • Applied Ethics in Contemporary Societies
  • Management Accounting
  • Investment and Portfolio Management
  • Banks and Financial Institutions
  • Competitive Analysis
  • Commercial Law
• Management
  • Applied Ethics in Contemporary Societies
  • Employment Practice
  • Business Communications
  • Work Futures
  • Leading Organisations
  • Strategic Management
  • Development and Change
• Marketing
  • Applied Ethics in Contemporary Societies
  • Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creations
  • Consumer Behaviour
  • Marketing Research
  • Marketing Communication
  • Marketing Strategy and Analysis
  • Social Media Marketing