Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting and Business Performance

Graduate Diploma

Based on our Master of Professional Accounting and Business Performance but requiring fewer units of study, you will learn to identify business opportunities and solve accounting and business problems in innovative ways to drive organisational performance.

Key details

Degree Type

Graduate Diploma

Duration

1 year full-time

Study Mode

In person

Intake Months

Feb, Aug

About this course

Based on our Master of Professional Accounting and Business Performance but requiring fewer units of study, you will learn to identify business opportunities and solve accounting and business problems in innovative ways to drive organisational performance.

Entry requirements

To be considered for admission, an applicant is required to have:

Australian bachelor's degree or higher (minimum 60 percent average) or equivalent qualification, or
Australian bachelor's degree or higher with a pass average (minimum 50 percent) or equivalent qualification, and satisfactory performance in the GMAT (for guidance, the class average score is 590) or equivalent Business School approved admissions test.

Study locations

Camperdown/Darlington

Career pathways

There are many employment opportunities for graduates, including:

financial controller
company secretary
financial analysts and planner
tax and estate adviser
financial and management accountant
auditor.

This course is partially accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Students can achieve full accreditation (pending completion of compulsory units of study) through the Master of Professional Accounting and Business Performance. For more information, see the Professional Accounting Accreditation Guide (pdf, 200KB).

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Business & Management courses at University of Sydney (USYD).

82.9%

Overall satisfaction

85.6%

Skill scale

70.8%

Teaching scale

90.2%

Employed full-time

$106k

Average salary

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