Bachelor of Business (Accounting)

• Program Overview
• Career Outcomes
• Professional Membership
• Program Structure
• Program Requirements and Notes

Program Overview

The flexibility of your Accounting program allows you to custom-design your degree to suit your career aims and your personal interests. You can also study subjects from the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences and Science to qualify you in several areas. You have more choice, more control, and you will graduate with a more marketable degree.

Business graduates who possess knowledge and skills within a professional specialist area complemented by a broad range of business disciplines are in great demand.

You can enrol in a Bachelor of Business (Accounting), where your primary major is Accounting complemented by a second major or two minors from other disciplines such as Human Resource Management (minor with the Management Discipline), Management, Marketing, International Business or Tourism from the Faculty of Business or a language from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. This enables you to graduate with specialist knowledge backed by additional knowledge and skills in your chosen fields.

Career Outcomes

Knowledge and skills acquired through the Bachelor of Business (Accounting) are transferable across many sectors such as government, education, the arts, commerce, and industry. Depending on minor and majors chosen, opportunities exist in:

• commercial accountanting
• public accountanting
• management accountanting
• public service accountanting
• company secretary positions
• accounting system services
• accounting advisory service consulting
• registered taxation agent positions
• stock broker auditing
• internal auditing
• accounting academic positions
• banking
• insurance analysis
• taxation planning
• financial analysing/planning
• factoring analysing
• business consulting
• project finance
• production planning
• liquidating
• business development managing
• financial controlling
• credit managing
• payroll positions

Professional Membership

Membership with the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants (CPA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA) in Australia is available to graduates from the University of the Sunshine Coast who have completed a major in Accounting. Graduates with the required work experience are then eligible to undertake the professional body's program to gain CPA or Chartered Accountant status.

Program Structure

Core Courses

Code	Units	Title
2 required courses:
COR109	12	Communication and Thought
COR110	12	Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship*

Introductory Courses

Code	Units	Title
6 required courses:
BUS101	12	Applied Research Methods
BUS102	12	Economics for Business
BUS103	12	Business Law and Ethics
BUS104	12	Managing the Organisation
BUS105	12	Marketing Theory and Practice
BUS106	12	Introductory Accounting

NB: Students wishing to undertake further Accounting courses must choose BUS106 Introductory Accounting as it is a prerequisite for further Accounting studies.

Accounting Major Courses

Code	Units	Title
8 required courses:
ACC210	12	Financial Accounting
ACC211	12	Business Finance
ACC220	12	Law of Business Associations
ACC221	12	Company Accounting
ACC310	12	Management Accounting
ACC311	12	Taxation Law and Practice
ACC320	12	Contemporary Accounting Issues
ACC321	12	Auditing and Professional Practice

Advanced Courses

Choose 8 courses which may comprise: a second major; or 2 minors; or a minor and 4 electives. These 4 electives may be chosen from any Faculty (Business, Arts and Social Sciences# or Science#).

Program Requirements and Notes

1. No more than 10 introductory level courses are to be completed, including Core Courses, in the Bachelor of Business.

2. Refer to the Academic Rules.

3. Refer to Explanation of Terms.

* Subject to final approval.

# Subject to the approval of the Business Faculty Program Administrator.

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