Option 2:

Master of Accounting from Swinburne University of Technology
Master of Science in Leadership from Northeastern University

Master of Accounting (Swinburne University of Technology)

This course offers you the opportunity to specialise in accounting for professional recognition. Accounting is the language of business, and skills are relevant to many areas of professional interest: marketing, economic forecasting, finance, engineering and many others.

A knowledge of accounting and finance can help you understand how to use money (resources) to the best advantage. Gaining and maintaining wealth are important elements in a market economy. The course provides you with the technical, practical, analytical and creative skills to enable you to effectively deal with accounting and finance issues within planning and decision making.

Accounting units:
• Accounting Principles
• Accounting Information Systems
• Business Modelling and Analysis
• Australian Contract Law
• Corporate Financial Management
• Australian Company Law
• Financial Reporting
• Managerial Accounting
• Economics
• Financial Accounting Theory

On successful completion of the program you maybe eligible to apply for associate membership of CPA Australia and ICAA.

Click here for more information about course structures and planners.

Building Financial Relationships

Get a taste what to expect in the classroom with this lecture snippet from visiting Northeastern University academic Christyne Vachon.

(MP4 10.2 MB)

Leadership stream
(Taught in Melbourne, by Northeastern University academics)

The traditional concept that leadership skill resides solely with a small handful of top executives has given way to contemporary collaborative models where influence and decision-making authority is distributed throughout an organisation. Today's workforce continues to diversify, and the tasks to be accomplished become more complex. This Leadership stream is designed to assist today's leaders and prepare emerging leaders in meeting these challenges.

The units incorporate an action-learning approach that is intended to leverage the interdisciplinary backgrounds of participants to help build leadership competencies.

Leadership units:
• Developing Your Leadership Capability
• Creating a High Performance Organisation
• Creating Leadership Capacity
• Leading Teams
• Building Financial Relationships
• The Ethical Leader
• Managing Organisational Culture
• Developing the Strategic Leader