Program Overview

If Professional Accounting (MPA) Advanced is a two-year course designed for non-accounting graduates who want a career in the accounting profession and want to enhance their learning experience by including another discipline specialisation within their course. The learning experience and knowledge areas in the MPA Advanced are focused on the practice of accounting.

Within the MPA Advanced, you can choose to complete one of three possible specialisations, depending on your career aspirations:

• Financial management - focus on areas of financial management such as banking and securities.
• International business - broaden your knowledge of intercultural aspects of the business environment.
• Business analytics - utilise and interpret data to inform business strategies and add value to businesses.

Throughout the degree, you will be supported by our dedicated student support services built around your individual needs. Our student advisors, academic staff and careers consultant are available each week for advice and guidance.

Additionally, this degree provides the opportunity to network with your peers, members of the local business community and alumni with a number of social and semi-formal events.

Specialisation: Business Analytics

Skilled business analysts are highly valued in industries across the globe. The skills to explore and interpret big data and uncover hidden value from multiple data sources can assist businesses in making intelligent and informed choices that enhance profitability. Business analytics focuses on the systematic collection of data and development of data sets, data analysis through statistical and other techniques, and most importantly, the interpretation and effective communication of insights gained from data to inform strategic organisational decisions. Your major in business analytics will help you develop the skills to become a strategic business problem solver and be an essential part of decisions made across the entire business lifecycle. Learn how to analyse large volumes of data to support decision making across all areas of business. You will gain an understanding of data management concepts and processing of relational data with Structured Query Language (SQL), the concepts of data confidentiality and security, modelling techniques to analyse contemporary finance and economics issues, and techniques that can be used to measure marketing effectiveness. You will also undertake a final-year capstone subject where you will collaborate with students from other disciplines to demonstrate all that you have learned. You?ll also have opportunities to gain valuable professional experience through an internship as part of your degree.