Outline Outline In today's dynamic business landscape, there's a soaring demand for professionals adept at understanding and manoeuvring the financial world.
The Undergraduate Certificate in Accounting serves as a solid foundation for those keen on mastering the nuances of ethical business decision-making grounded in accurate financial information. Your studies will include:
- the role of accounting and finance in shaping businesses and their broader societal impacts
- the essentials of management accounting and its application in organisational planning and decision-making while considering ethical dimensions
- the concepts of accounting transactions, financial statements, and modern computing tools, while also learning about international reporting standards
- typical accounting information systems, their interplay and the principles guiding them.
This course is tailored for people from all academic backgrounds looking to gain a foundational understanding of accounting.
This undergraduate certificate also offers a pathway into Curtin's Bachelor of Commerce, with a choice of majors in these areas:
- Accounting
- Accounting and Audit Analytics
- Business Information Systems
- Finance
- Taxation.
What you'll learn
- apply principles and concepts of accounting in a variety of contexts relevant to further learning and/or paraprofessional work
- apply critical and creative thinking and problem solving skills relevant to accounting to generate innovative solutions to problems
- use technology appropriately to communicate accounting concepts to experts and non-experts
- consider global perspectives on accounting and international accounting standards
- work professionally in teams and independently, and demonstrate life-long learning skills