Deakin's Master of Professional Accounting covers engaging areas such as corporate and management accounting, commercial law, corporations law, accounting theory, economics, and finance. Open to graduates from both accounting and non-accounting background, you’ll be given the opportunity to complete the necessary studies to become associate members of CPA Australia, to enter the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand to undertake the CA program or to enter the IPA professional program.

The accounting profession has recently seen a trend of shifting roles from predominantly providing financial information towards wide-ranging advisory services. Graduating with a Master of Professional Accounting from Deakin opens the door to a huge variety of business careers. Today’s accountants are regarded as providers of business management information – a role perfectly suited to graduates of this professional accounting course.

Graduates of this course would typically seek employment in areas of accounting such as financial accounting, auditing, taxation, management accounting, public sector accounting, forensic accounting or commercial law. However accountants can choose to work in a range of different environments depending on their own skills and preferences. They can choose to work in large firms, small public practices, industry, government, law firms, management consultancies, banking and financial services, not-for-profit organisations or educational organisations. Many also set up their own businesses.

Given the fundamental shift of accountants towards a wide-ranging advisory role, career opportunities are also becoming available in other vocations including working as  investment advisers, market analysts, tax consultants, advisers in mergers and acquisitions, in corporate recovery and insolvency, treasury banking, e-commerce or information technology.