Overview

The Professional Accounting (Professional Practice) program from Charles Darwin University will equip you with contemporary knowledge and skills required for professional practice as a certified practicing accountant (CPA) or chartered accountant (CA).

Quick Facts:

The course will provide you the technical and conceptual skills required in a competent accountant, and will develop your ability to explore, analyse and synthesise various accounting and related principles, methods and techniques. You will undertake a piece of research in your capstone unit of study that incorporates accounting theory and contemporary issues.
You can choose to undertake a professional placement, applied research specialisation or to choose electives that support your career objectives. For your professional practice component CDU provides training specific to working effectively in an organisation.
You are then provided with a placement opportunity to work in an organisation of approximately 300 hours over a period of eight to ten weeks. If you wish you may also organise your own placement with a suitable organisation. The placement occurs in the last semester of study and provides you with an opportunity to apply the knowledge you have gained during your MPA studies.
This conversion course enables graduates with non-accounting, partial accounting, or accounting but not equivalent to Australian accounting backgrounds to meet the academic requirements for membership of CPA Australia and The Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ).

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Accounting

Management Accounting

Corporate Accounting

Auditing

Accounting Information Systems

Business Economics

Aspects of Corporate Finance

Australian Tax Law

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months
Part-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-07-20 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-06-12 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2026-11-16 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-09 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2027-03-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-23 00:00:00 , International

Language

English

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Credits

160 alternative credits

Delivered

On Campus, Online

Campus Location

Darwin, Australia
Sydney, Australia

Disciplines

Economics Finance Accounting View 84 other Masters in Accounting in Australia

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

CRICOS Code: 107553M
Successful completion of the Graduate Diploma of Accounting StudiesORSuccessful completion of a recognised bachelor degree or equivalent international qualification in any discipline.
Applicants who have fully satisfied the entry requirements of the accounting professional bodies in their first degree are not eligible for entry.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

38192 AUD / year

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Living costs

Darwin

Australia

1493 - 2530 AUD / month

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General requirements

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Additional Details

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