Graduate Certificate of Accounting

Minimum English language proficiency requirements

Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 1 – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy.

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

In the context of a JCU graduate on successful completion of the Graduate Certificate of Accounting students will be able to:

• Critically analyse accounting-related knowledge and practice from both historical and recent perspectives

• Consolidate the application of differing accounting performance reporting and monitoring methods

• Synthesise sustainable economic, social and environmental practices and value systems

• Integrate theoretical and technical accounting knowledge which includes a selection of auditing and assurance, finance, economics, quantitative methods, information systems, commercial law, corporation law and taxation law

• Apply established concepts to provide solutions to complex business and professional practice problems

• Critically analyse contemporary business issues using appropriate models and make reasoned recommendations

• Present complex information appropriately to both accountants and non-accountants using:

• Effective oral presentation skills

• Clear and fluent written communication

• Demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively and effectively in achieving common goals

• Adapt sustainable accounting constructs and skills to theoretical or practical situations

• Exercise independent judgment to solve routine accounting problems in diverse contexts using social, ethical, economic, regulatory and global perspectives

• Seek and reflect on performance feedback to identify and action learning opportunities and self-improvements.

Maximum time to complete

3 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

No

Professional accreditation requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

A student who has failed a single subject towards the award in their final teaching period and who gained 40% or more of the marks for that subject, may be granted a supplementary examination in that subject. However if that subject is required for accreditation, then the criteria specified by that accreditation will apply.

Maximum allowed

6 credit points

Expiry

Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 7 years after the date of the examination upon which the credit is based if, by then, the student has not completed this course.

Approved abbreviation

GCertAcc

Exit with lesser award

Not applicable