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Bachelor of Accounting (Professional Accounting)
UndergraduateUSQ-APA-DEG2025
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Unlock an exciting career based on professional accounting skills
An accounting degree with professional accreditation from CPA Australia. You’ll study accounting systems, processes, corporate finance, and more. Go beyond the numbers with business law and ethics. Graduate as a qualified accountant.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- 3 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 24
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Bachelor of Accounting (Professional Accounting)
About this degree
Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:
- Understand and apply the required technical and professional competencies of a recognised accounting professional in a range of business contexts.
- Evaluate inputs from a variety of sources and stakeholders to ensure that the interests of others (including organisational, cultural and environmental), and the fundamental ethical values of integrity, objectivity and confidentiality are recognised.
- Evaluate the use of digital technologies, mechanisation, computerisation, and/or automation to support current and future business processes as a future focused accounting professional.
- Communicate specialist advice and decisions and work with to others to achieve organisational goals and provide professional expertise.
- Exercise professional judgement using critical and reflective thinking and self-directed learning to continue developing as a self-reliant, ethical, and responsible accounting professional.
- Leverage a well-developed professional identity by exhibiting the human capabilities and knowledge demanded of professional accountants and by modern organisations.
- Start a career that is always in demand and become an integral part of modern businesses with UniSQ’s Bachelor of Accounting. You’ll develop your professional identity through confident communication skills, enabling you to deliver specialist advice and decisions to diverse stakeholders. You will build technical and professional knowledge and skills in financial and management accounting, auditing, information technology, taxation, business law, and ethics. Working alongside industry partners on real-world issues, students of the Bachelor of Accounting will immerse themselves in a variety of authentic case studies, as well as a capstone project in your final year.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
ACC1201 Data Insights and Financial Performance
ACC1202 Accounting Systems and Processes
CIS1000 Digital Disruption
STA1004 Fundamental Statistics for Accountants
FIN1101 Corporate Finance
MGT1101 Human Capabilities for Business
ECO1201 Fundamental Economics
1 x Elective
Year 2
LAW1501 Business Law and Ethics
ACC2201 Financial Reporting and Analysis A
ACC2204 Audit and Assurance
ACC2205 Management Account A
4 x Electives
Year 3
ACC3207 Accounting Systems and Critical Perspectives
ACC3206 Management Accounting B
MGT3303 The Equipped Graduate
LAW3500 Taxation Law A
ACC3201 Financial Reporting and Analysis B
3 x Electives
Award requirements
Completion of 24 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Associate Degree of Business.
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Indicative first year fee
$16,323
Indicative total fee $48,969
The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
As Australia’s #1 university for graduate starting salary (Good Universities Guide, 2022), University of Southern Queensland is the right place to make real progress. Regardless of your education history, your age or your aspirations, at UniSQ you’ll be inspired by quality learning experiences matched with top resources and research. Having delivered distance and online learning for over 40+ years, UniSQ supports you to learn at your own pace—exactly how it suits you.
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Entry requirements
- ATAR - 60.0 or equivalent; proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
- Completed VET qualifications can be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
- Work and Life experience may be used to derive an ATAR score or Selection Rank which may be used to meet the Entry Requirements for the program. We encourage you to reach out to the UniSQ team to discuss your options further.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Career opportunities
Professional recognition
The Bachelor of Accounting is accredited with CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ). Graduates that complete the four units of core courses and 12 Professional Accounting major courses will meet the educational entrance requirements of CPA and CAANZ. This provides Associate membership of CPA Australia, eligibility to study the CPA Australia professional exams, and eligibility to study the CAANZ professional exams.
Students who successfully complete the 4-unit Tax Practitioner minor will meet the education requirements of the Tax Practitioners Board. Note that there are also professional work experience requirements to register as a tax agent.
Finance major graduates will meet the educational entrance requirements to become a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA).
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Accountants | $75K to $93K | Up 8% |
Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers | $93K to $120K | Up 37.6% |
Finance Managers | Over $120K | Up 24.7% |
Financial Investment Advisers and Managers | Over $120K | Up 25.4% |