Study Accounting

Potential Career Outcomes

Some potential occupations include:

• Accountant General (ANZSCO 221111): currently on Medium and Long-term Strategic Skill List (MLTSSL)
• Taxation Accountant (ANZSCO 221113): currently on Medium and Long-term Strategic Skill List (MLTSSL)
• Management Accountant (ANZSCO 221112): currently on Medium and Long-term Strategic Skill List (MLTSSL)

Course overview

Accountants work across a range of industries, as their skills are highly sought after by businesses. Accountants provide a diverse range of services from bookkeeping, payroll, auditing, processing taxes and financial reporting.

Australia offers a variety of courses to students to begin their career as an accountant. Vocational training can train students to work in different areas of accounting, however, to be a certified accountant, you must have at least a Bachelor Degree.

In these courses you can learn:

• Financial risks
• Financial reports preparation
• Financial systems and records
• Financial statistics and tools
• Financial services legislation
• Industry codes of practice

Graduate Outcomes

• An accountant earns $1660 per week on average.
• Most accountants work full-time (80%).
• It is projected that over the next 5 years, there will be approximately 84,000 job openings.
• Many works full-time (80%)
• Age: the average age is 38 years
• Gender: 52% of workers are female.

Common Course Requirements

• Completion of secondary education
• Meet English proficiency (Usually at least IELTS 5.5 overall for Vocational courses, or 6.5 for University courses)

Related Courses

Some related courses include:

• Diploma of Accounting

Duration: 20 – 85 weeks
Intake: Monthly
Cost: $1,000- $34,560
Locations: Most cities – Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Tasmania, Northern Territory and Canberra

• Advanced Diploma of Accounting
  Duration: 20 -104 weeks
  Intake: Monthly
  Cost: $4,950 – $24,000
  Locations: Most cities – Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Tasmania, Northern Territory and Canberra
• Bachelor of Commerce/ Accounting

Duration: 108 – 156 weeks

Intake: February, July

Cost: $33,600 – $146,206

Locations: Most cities – Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Tasmania, Northern Territory and Canberra