Careers in Accounting

To understand the benefits of studying accounting at UNE and commencing your career in accounting, lets understand what Australia's peak accounting bodies have to say about the reasons for studying accounting.

Chartered Accountants (Institute of Chartered Accountants)

According to their website: Chartered Accountants bring their analytic expertise to fields as diverse as strategic planning, market analysis, compliance, change management and the use of information technology.

Chartered Accountants enjoy benefits such as:

Fantastic professional development and travel opportunities
Being part of an elite professional network
An internationally recognised professional designation
Career support from the Institute
The status membership of the Institute provides.

For this reason Chartered Accountants include the chief financial officers of 60 per cent of Australia’s Top 500 companies, and Chartered Accountants audit all of the top 100 ASX-listed companies in Australia.

CPA Australia (Certified Practicing Accountants)

According to the CPA website: Accounting is the Language of Business and Accounting studies give you the tools to understand how and why key decisions are made, and to have input into those decisions.

If you want to be a finance and accounting specialist, you will play a key role in managing the money. If you want to specialise in another business discipline, a knowledge of accounting will be a great help to you.

Accounting gives you career flexibility
For graduates with accounting qualifications, there are more jobs with a greater range of employers than for any other business discipline. Accounting qualifications are easily transferable from one employer to another (and from one country to another)

And many senior managers working in any business discipline hold accounting qualifications and have used them to get the positions they now hold.

NIA The National Institute of Accountants

The NIA is a professional organisation for accountants recognised for their practical, hands-on skills and a broad understanding of the total business environment and their website suggests that accounting offers careers in industry, commerce, academia, government and private practice. Accounting Provides a broad understanding of the total business environment