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Accounting

Major/Co-Major/Minor

Description

Effective from 2010
The Accounting program aims to produce Accounting graduates who are well-equipped and well-placed to make the transition from university to the changing professional and business environment of the new millennium. In particular, the program produces Accounting graduates who are widely recognised by potential employers as being formally qualified professionals who have both the competence and confidence to assume entry roles in the field of accounting practice.

Career opportunities

Students with accounting majors or minors find rewarding work in industry, commerce, the public sector, the finance industry or business consulting.

Structure

Professional Major (200 – 225 cps, i.e. 16 – 18 units)
An Accounting Professional Major consists of 18 units (225 credit points) that:
• includes all the requisite foundation units; and
• has a clearly identifiable professional outcome; and/or
• satisfies any relevant external professional-body accreditation requirements.
Where a student has completed the requirements of a Professional Major and the degree requirements they are eligible to apply to graduate with the appropriate tagged degree outcome.
Co-Major (100 cps, 8 units)
A Co-Major is a sequence of study focussed on a specific discipline while assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the student. It is self-contained, in that it includes any requisite foundation studies. Where a student has studied a Co-Major they are not normally eligible to apply to graduate with the associated tagged degree outcome.

Minor
(4 units)
Minors are a prescribed set of units that may broaden a student’s learning, such as a set of units from different disciplines, typically derived as a subset of a Major or Co-Major. Minors contain no elective choice and are made up of 4 units (50 cps). Subject to faculty approval some unit substitution is allowable.

Units

Kaplan Major: Professional Accounting This major is only offered to students who are studying in Singapore through the Kaplan Higher Education.

Further information

Email: ldinfo@swin.edu.au
Phone: +614 9215 7200