Bachelor of Business in Accountancy

at Massey University - Auckland Campus New Zealand

Build your knowledge of mathematics and learn how to communicate your findings, with Massey’s Graduate Diploma in Arts (Mathematics).Massey’s Graduate Diploma in Arts (Mathematics) opens up a world of opportunities. Maths is a product of human ingenuity that allows our modern world to exist. That may be securing sensitive communications using cryptography. Or it may be calculating the geostationary orbit of a satellite. With a Graduate Diploma in Arts (Mathematics) you’ll learn analytic and numerical methods for problem-solving. These can be applied in a range of contexts and industries.

The Bachelor of Information Sciences (Data Science) gives you the skills to fill the rapidly growing number of jobs in the area of data science and analytics.

You’ll learn how to make sense of complexities so others can understand them and how to apply computing to data-oriented challenges. You may have an interest in commerce, government, natural and social sciences. You can learn how to apply technology to drive potentially world-changing innovation, decision-making and research in those fields.

Data Science brings together some of the most interesting aspects of computer science, IT and statistics in order to make a unique, custom-designed and relevant specialisation for the current job market.

The field of education is filled with interesting possibilities. Education provides a critical analysis of contemporary educational theories, policies, and practices. Theoretical understanding and research skills enhance the way we analyse and bring information together.

Develop your analytical skills and enhance your ability to extract value from data.

New data capture and processing tools require business managers who know how to convert data into information. Analytics is the key to extracting useful and interesting insights from data.

The Bachelor of Business (Business Analytics) will make you a data analytics professional, with the knowledge and skills to identify organisational data-related problems. You will practice with analytics tools and techniques to extract, transform, and analyse data to provide evidence-based solutions for competitive advantage. You will interpret big data and use it to build and test business models, and communicate with a wider audience.

Ethical practice is critical while dealing with sensitive data. The Bachelor of Business (Business Analytics) will broaden your ability to manage and critique contemporary issues in business analytics including ethics, data sovereignty and governance, privacy, acquisition and processing.

This qualification exploits the value of data to meet the needs of organisational decision making and meet strategic goals. It cultivates hands-on skills with different analytic tools to enhance data driven decision making.  

You’ll gain skills related to identifying data problems and understanding data analytics. You’ll help build systems for dynamic data driven decision making, and practice data ethics.

The skills taught in the Bachelor of Business (Financial Planning and Advice) will help those who wish to develop knowledge relevant to this important and growing sector. The qualification can be configured to assist you if you are either wanting to become a financial planner or those already in the industry that are looking to gain further certification. Please note that this qualification does not satisfy the educational requisite established by the Financial Markets Authority under the current Code of Professional Conduct for Financial Advice Services. A student seeking to be licensed as a financial adviser in New Zealand should consider taking the Certificate in Business Studies (Financial Services pathway) which does grant such status. It will be possible to cross credit some of the credits from the certificate back into the bachelor’s degree as part of the elective schedule.

Develop skills critical to effective communication in a rapidly changing global environment.The Bachelor of Business (Global Communication) at Massey will develop your critical skills in analysing communication in global contexts, strengthen your understanding of global sustainability challenges, and enhance your ability to communicate across cultures.

A postgraduate diploma is the stepping stone to a research-based qualification such as a master’s degree. Massey University’s Postgraduate Diploma in Science and Technology (Zoology) gives you the opportunity to join the pathway to in-depth research at a master's level. The program consists of 90 credits of taught programs and 30 credits of research.

The program gives you the opportunity to show your analytical thinking and high-level research capability.

Massey’s Master of Finance combines the study of advanced finance theory with the choice of completing the qualification either by undertaking a Research option or a Professional option.

What will you learn?
Your study will focus on finance, but help you put this specialty into the context of other business disciplines.

This qualification has a focus on real-world learning – you can utilise our relationships with industry to draw on your own work experience. You will also learn the application of techniques in environments like our Trading and Investment Rooms – the first of their kind in New Zealand.

You will be taught by some of New Zealand's leading finance practitioners and will learn how to apply high-level in-depth research in the workplace.

The Master of Finance will also help develop your oral and written communication skills to the level expected of senior business leaders.

You can develop your passion for literature, studying how great writing has shaped identity, culture and society. Massey’s Bachelor of Arts (English) offers you thorough coverage of great literature in English, from Shakespeare to the present day. Our courses are taught by active researchers who share your love of literature. They’ll introduce you to amazing writing and the reasons why it matters.

With Massey’s Master of Arts (Sociology) you can build on your undergraduate interests. Sociology is about understanding and describing our local society and its global setting.

Sociology is about understanding and describing our local society and its global setting. Sociologists are interested in almost all aspects of the social world and in your MA (Sociology) you’ll consider questions such as:

• how is society structured?
• how is society changing?
• what divides or unites social groups?
• what causes the inequalities we see in society?
• how does power operate?

With a Massey MA (Sociology) you’ll ask challenging questions about how power structures function in the social world. You’ll study culture, ethnicity, class, inequality, gender, mass media, politics, environment, and social change as well as individual and group interactions.