Master of Accounting Practice
By coursework
+ Award nomenclature
Master of Accounting Practice
MAccPrac
+ Course Availability Modes and Locations
Currently no enrolment information is available for this course
Availability is subject to change, please verify prior to enrolment.
Normal course duration
Full-time 2 years (4.0 sessions)
Admission criteria CSU Admission Policy
Applicants must have a bachelor degree with a major in accounting, or a postgraduate foundation degree in accounting, from a recognised Australian tertiary institution, or a qualification deemed to be equivalent.
Applicants must have sufficient English proficiency to meet the general requirements of the University, or must demonstrate proficiency explicitly as follows: Students must have attained within two years of commencement of the course an Academic IELTS (International English Language Testing System) overall score of at least 6.5 with no score below 6 (or equivalent).
Applicants wishing to transfer into the program must have a credit average on studies completed prior to transfer.
Credit CSU Credit Policy
Students may receive up to 50% credit into the Master of Accounting Practice for related prior postgraduate studies with a grade of Credit or above. Credit will not be awarded for work experience.
Graduation requirement
To graduate students must satisfactorily complete 96 points.
Course structure
Students who enrol in a ‘CPA subject’, must be enrolled in the CPA Program administered by CPA Australia and sit the CPA Australia exams. In completing the ‘CPA subject’ in the Master of Accounting Practice with Charles Sturt University, students do not receive the CPA Australia qualification until they have met all the requirements of the CPA Program as set by CPA Australia, from time to time. For information about the CPA Program, visit www.cpaaustralia.com.au.
The course comprises four compulsory core subjects and eight subjects chosen from a further three groups of subjects.
Group A. FOUR Core CPA subjects
ACC586 Ethics and Governance CPA
ACC587 Strategic Management Accounting CPA
ACC588 Financial Reporting CPA
ACC589 Global Strategy and Leadership CPA
Group B. Elective CPA subjects – TWO subjects from:
ACC596 Advanced Taxation CPA
ACC597 Advanced Audit and Assurance CPA
ACC598 Financial Risk Management CPA
ACC599 Contemporary Business Issues CPA
Group C. A minimum of FOUR subjects and a maximum of SIX subjects offered by the School of Accounting and Finance from:
ACC525 Financial Accountability in the Public Sector
FIN560 Financial Planning
FIN564 Superannuation and Retirement Planning
ACG501 Forensic Accounting
ACG502 Business and Financial Analysis
ACG503 Business Valuation
ACG504 Communication in Business
ACG505 Professional Work Practice
Group D. A maximum of TWO subjects offered by the Faculty of Business from:
HRM502 Human Resource Management
HRM552 Organisation Behaviour
ITC501 Strategic Information Management
ITC567 Principles of Information Security
ITC574 Information Technology for Management
ITC594 E-Commerce Technologies
MGT501 Management Theory and Practice
MGT510 Strategic Management
MGT530 International Business
MGT531 Business Ethics
MGT540 Management of Change
MGT550 Operations Management
MGT553 Project Management
MKT501 Marketing Management
MKT510 Customer Behaviour
MKT550 Global Marketing
Enrolment pattern
Master of Accounting Practice
Full-time Study Sequence
If commencing at the start of a calendar year
1st session of enrolment
ACC586 Ethics and Governance CPA
ACC587 Strategic Management Accounting CPA
[ ] Group C Elective
2nd session of enrolment
ACC588 Financial Reporting CPA
[ ] Group B Elective
[ ] Group B Elective
3rd session of enrolment
ACC589 Global Strategy and Leadership CPA
[ ] Group C Elective
[ ] Group C Elective
4th session of enrolment
[ ] Group C Elective
[ ] Group C or Group D Elective
[ ] Group C or Group D Elective
If commencing in the second session of a calendar year
1st session of enrolment
ACC586 Ethics and Governance CPA
ACC588 Financial Reporting CPA
[ ] Group C Elective
2nd session of enrolment
ACC587 Strategic Management Accounting CPA
[ ] Group B Elective
[ ] Group B Elective
3rd session of enrolment
ACC589 Global Strategy and Leadership CPA
[ ] Group C Elective
[ ] Group C Elective
4th session of enrolment
[ ] Group C Elective
[ ] Group C or Group D Elective
[ ] Group C or Group D Elective
Distance education study sequence
If commencing at the start of a calendar year
1st session of enrolment
ACC586 Ethics and Governance CPA
ACC587 Strategic Management Accounting CPA
2nd session of enrolment
ACC588 Financial Reporting CPA
[ ] Group B Elective
3rd session of enrolment
ACC589 Global Strategy and Leadership CPA
[ ] Group B Elective
4th session of enrolment
[ ] Group C Elective
[ ] Group C Elective
5th session of enrolment
[ ] Group C Elective
[ ] Group C Elective
6th session of enrolment
[ ] Group C or Group D Elective
[ ] Group C or Group D Elective
If commencing in the second session of a calendar year
1st session of enrolment
ACC586 Ethics and Governance CPA
ACC588 Financial Reporting CPA
2nd session of enrolment
ACC587 Strategic Management Accounting CPA
[ ] Group B Elective
3rd session of enrolment
ACC589 Global Strategy and Leadership CPA
[ ] Group B Elective
4th session of enrolment
[ ] Group C Elective
[ ] Group C Elective
5th session of enrolment
[ ] Group C Elective
[ ] Group C Elective
6th session of enrolment
[ ] Group C or Group D Elective
[ ] Group C or Group D Elective
+ Residential School
Please note that the following subject may have a residential school component.
FIN560 Financial Planning
Enrolled students can find further information about CSU residential schools via the About Residential School page.
+ Workplace Learning
Please note that the following subject has a Workplace Learning component.
ACG505 Professional Work Practice
Professional recognition
Delivery of the professional level of the CPA Program in any university course requires annual registration as a Tuition Provider and annual course accreditation. While the CPA subjects within this course have been accredited by CPA Australia as part of the Master of Professional Accounting (CPA), the Master of Accounting has not as yet received accreditation. Applications for Tuition Provider registration and accreditation for this course will now be progressed.
Contact
For further information about Charles Sturt University, or this course offering, please contact info.csu on 1800 334 733 (free call within Australia) or email inquiry@csu.edu.au
The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: February 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.