Master of Accounting and Finance

Professional accountants are increasingly being appointed to helm large corporations in a rapidly challenging and highly dynamic business environment in both the private and public sectors. With a clear mandate from government and industry regulators to enhance business performance, accountants have taken up key positions in the corporate world, expanding their expertise into other service industries such as in ICT, transportation and aviation and many other areas.

The HELP MAF aims to provide the theoretical framework and skills which accountants and financial managers need in order to cope with an increasingly complex and global accountancy environment. The programme provides an advanced study of accounting and financial management enabling accounting and finance graduates to extend their academic training to the frontiers of professional knowledge and also enabling professionally qualified accountants to take stock of, and enhance, what they have learnt in practice. Qualifying students with HELP MAF are acceptable for up to three (3) exemptions for the CPA Australia professional examinations; students are advised to confirm the status of this CPA exemption when they register for MAF and the CPA professional examination.

MCR500 INTRODUCTORY CASE AND RESEARCH METHODOLOGY (NON-CREDIT SUBJECT)

Core/Specialisation Subjects:

• ACC513 Governance and Corporate Accountability
• ACC514 Financial Reporting and Disclosure
• ACC515 Current Issues in Financial Accounting
• ACC516 Reporting and Professional Practice
• ACC517 Applied Business Ethics
• CRM500 Case and Research Methodology
• ECO520 Economics for Strategy
• FIN507 Applied Corporate Finance
• FIN502 Investment Analysis
• FIN510 Entrepreneurial Finance
• FIN504 International Financial Management MAF510 Project Paper (Capstone)

Electives currently offered:

• ACC517 Applied Business Ethics
• ECO520 Economics for Strategy

Presently scheduled for completion within 18 months but pending imposition of government regulation; duration is expected to be extended to 24 months in due course.