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Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting
A Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting is a conversion course for graduates of another discipline who want to become accountants.
- How long it takes
- 1 year
- full time
- Level
- Graduate diploma
- University
- Leads on to
- Financial Accountant
- $104,200 median pay
- Taught by
- 9 providers
- 4 states and territories
Is this course right for you?
What the Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting asks of you, and what you might want to check first.
Before you start
Each provider sets its own entry requirements, so check the ones you are considering.
Where this course can take you
Jobs this qualification is a recognised route into, and the study that can follow it.
Jobs you can do with it
Financial Accountant
Financial accountants prepare the statements and reports a business uses to meet its tax and reporting obligations.
What else you need
Complete the accounting units and relevant professional subjects. Professional designations, statutory audit sign-off and tax-agent registration have further requirements; this route does not confer them.
Median pay$104,200
Management Accountant
Management accountants work out what a business's products, contracts and units cost to run, then build the budgets and analysis managers use to make decisions.
What else you need
Complete the accounting units and relevant professional subjects. Professional designations have further requirements; this route does not confer them.
Median pay$104,200
Pay is the median for everyone in the job, and “In demand” means the job is on the national shortage list.
Where you can study this course
There are 9 places you can study this course. When you compare them, check they teach it the way you want to study, how far you'd be from a campus, what it will cost you and what past students say about the teaching and support. They're listed by how often people search for them, and none of them pays to be here or to move up.
- Website for Curtin University (opens in a new tab)
Curtin University
Curtin University of Technology, WA
4.2from 1,745 Google reviews
What students like
- Staff are helpful and welcoming
- Support services help students through hard times
What to weigh up
- Enquiries can take a while to answer
Victoria University
Victoria University City Campus (City Tower), VIC
3.9from 1,562 Google reviews
Victoria University
Victoria University Sydney City Centre, NSW
3.9from 1,562 Google reviews
- Website for La Trobe University (opens in a new tab)
La Trobe University
Bendigo, La Trobe University Sydney, Melbourne (Bundoora), NSW, VIC
4.3from 1,101 Google reviews
What students like
- Lecturers are friendly and supportive
What to weigh up
- Admin and support can be slow to respond
- Some find courses light on practical content
- Website for The University of Sydney (opens in a new tab)
The University of Sydney
The University of Sydney, NSW
4.5from 2,084 Google reviews
Le Cordon Bleu Australia
Chadstone, VIC
4.2from 219 Google reviews
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
RMIT University - 124 Latrobe Street, Melbourne, VIC
The University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales, NSW
What you’ll learn
The main topics covered in the Graduate Diploma in Professional Accounting.
- Financial accounting and reporting
- Management accounting
- Auditing and assurance
- Taxation
- Corporate and business law
Questions to ask before you enrol
Providers run this course differently, so the answers change from one to the next.
- When is the next intake, and how many are there each year?
- What is the total cost, including materials, checks and any placement costs?
- Can I study part time or online, and how does that change the length?
- Do the units count towards a higher qualification if I go on to study further?