Careers in accounting are stimulating, rewarding and in-demand. The Diploma of Accounting provides you with direct pathways to university and work ready skills needed for middle and upper-level accounting jobs. You will learn how to prepare income tax returns, manage budgets and forecasts, prepare financial reports, implement and maintain internal control procedures, and provide management accounting information. To further enhance your career opportunities completion of FNS40611 Certificate IV in Accounting meets the minimum academic requirements with the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) for registration as a BAS agent. In addition to the academic requirements, the TPB does require extensive relevant experience for registration. As an experienced accountant you can choose to work strategically with executive and management teams to provide expert financial advice to support business decision making, work in an accounting practice or position yourself to move into an array of management positions. As an accounting graduate you will find career opportunities in a wide variety of industries from public accounting, property, business services, manufacturing, banking, insurance, Government departments and not-for-profit organisations. And, with increasing regulation and business reliance on sound financial information, opportunities for qualified accountants are predicted to grow.

This qualification leads to employment in accounting job roles with duties such as but not limited to the following: • introducing and maintaining accounting systems • maintaining internal control systems • preparing financial statements for both non-reporting and reporting entities • preparing tax returns • reporting on business performance • developing business plans • preparing accounting reports for management.