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The course focuses on the knowledge and skills required for practice as a certified practising accountant or chartered accountant along with effective management, accountability and control, and effective decision-making for financial success.

Master of Professional Accounting

The professional practice MPA provides you with a unique opportunity to work in an organisation and gain valuable professional experience while also gaining an MPA qualification.

Master of Professional Accounting (Professional Practice)

From mining to music, accounting is vital to every organisation in every industry. It’s an essential part of an organisation’s decision-making, planning, and even performance evaluation.
In this two-year advanced Master program, you’ll learn about accounting processes and business finance. You’ll work on project teams with your peers to put accounting theory into practice with our industry partners, gaining real-world experience.
3 reasons to study a Master of Professional Accounting at Murdoch
Get practical experience through projects where you’ll work with our academics, other students and industry partners. Our industry partners include government agencies, mining companies, accounting firms, IT service firms and real estate companies.Select electives in wider business units such as leadership, strategic management and applied business research to further enhance your employability.Our teaching staff have won teaching excellence awards, secured grant funding from CPA Australia, published journal articles and are actively involved in the industry.
Develop your skills
Every business relies on skilled accountants to make informed, ethical, and strategic business decisions.
Graduates from our post graduate degree work in diverse roles across industries, including:
Restructuring and InsolvencyMergers and AcquisitionsBusiness ValuationFinancial ForensicsAssurance and Internal AuditFinancial and Management AccountingEnterprise Risk ManagementTaxation
Your future career
Studying an MPA at Murdoch will ensure that those seeking successful careers in the accountancy sector will be afforded opportunities to develop skills in demand by employers including:
Digitisation, technology adoption and innovationAccountancy advisory, visualisation and innovationSoft skills, ethical practice and stakeholder managementData analytics, modelling and analysis
Good financial management is needed across all industries. You could find yourself working in government, media, advertising, finance, and other areas of business or non-government organisations (NGOs).
Note: We offer this Master of Professional Accounting (Advanced) for international students. We also offer a Master of Professional Accounting for domestic students looking for a career change to accounting and all it has to offer.
                                    Professional accreditation
This course is accredited by the CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.                                                                    Professional recognition
Graduates of this course meet the academic requirements for membership with CPA Australia and are eligible for entry to the Chartered Accountants Program with Chartered Accountants ANZ
Students who have been granted Recognition of Prior Learning must discuss their enrolment and selection of units with the Academic Chair as Recognition of Prior Learning may affect their ability to satisfy the admission requirements to the professional accounting bodies on completion of their degree.

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