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Our Diploma of Accounting and Finance prepares you for a professional accounting career and is also a pathway into our bachelor degree.

This course prepares you with the skills to carry-out tasks like reporting on business performance, financial reporting and statements, maintaining internal control systems, preparing tax returns and providing management accounting information.

On completion, you can enter the workforce, go on to our bachelor degree or sit for the external Association of Chartered Certified Accountants exams and obtain further qualifications.

Because of the broad accounting concepts you will learn in this course, you will be qualified to apply for jobs in financial services and other industries which need accounting support.

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Duration

5 Semester/s

Intakes

Sarawak (April, August) - View application and start dates

Fees

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Course information in detail

- Course detail, course structure and units of study.

Course description

The Diploma of Accounting and Finance offered at Swinburne Sarawak (Malaysia) will equip students with the appropriate knowledge and skills to obtain employment or to articulate into further studies (Bachelor degree courses).

The inclusion of the new 7 Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) units in this Diploma of Accounting and Finance is to better equip and prepare students with necessary knowledge to enter the workforce. Students in the Diploma of Accounting and Finance have the option to sit for external Associated of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) exams and obtain further qualifications (e.g. Diploma in Accounting and Business and Certified Accounting Technician). Students are able to get exemptions from ACCA when they proceed with ACCA professional qualification.

Course structure

The Diploma of Accounting and Finance is a Higher Education Diploma offered at Swinburne Sarawak and the duration is typically 5 semesters/2.5 years of full-time study. The course structure requires the successful completion of 18 core units of study plus one Malaysian MoE Compliance units. The Diploma of Accounting and Finance is a Level 5 in the Australian Qualifications Framework. Admission to the program is normally based on secondary and/or tertiary academic results. This course can be undertaken full-time or part-time which includes lectures and tutorials.

Students will be completing eighteen (18) core units worth 225 credit points.

Units of study

DBA131 Management Information
DBA132 Fundamentals of Financial Transactions
DBA231 Managing Costs and Finance
DBA232 Maintaining Financial Records
DBA331 Advanced Management Accounting
DBA332 Financial Accounting
DBA333 Business for Accountants
DBB111 Acquiring Business Awareness
DBC111 English Proficiency
DBC121 Academic and Communication Skills A
DBC212 Innovation and Change
DBC311 Communicating in the Workplace
DBE211 Economics
DBE221 Principles of Economics
DBF111 Introductory Mathematics
DBF211 Business Data for Finance
DBI121 Information Technology
DBI311 Introduction to Business Information Systems

Malaysian MoE Compliance Units:
MPU2133 Malay Language Communication 1 OR
MPU2163 Pengajian Malaysia 2 (Malaysian Studies 2)

Careers and graduate outcomes

- Career opportunities, course aims and objectives and professional recognition.

Career opportunities

This qualification reflects accounting job roles in financial services and other industries requiring accounting support functions, including reporting on business performance, preparing financial reports and statements, maintaining internal control systems, preparing tax returns and providing management accounting information.

Aims and objectives

The Diploma of Accounting and Finance aims to provide a pathway into a professional accounting career by equipping students with the necessary knowledge to enter the workforce or further study. Aligned with the Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) exams by ACCA, students have the options to pursue an AACSB accredited Business Degree with Swinburne University of Technology or a professional accounting qualification with ACCA. This will align with Swinburne University of Technology's 2025 vision by offering opportunities to students to pursue a professional accounting career as an alternative pathway to the current undergraduate courses offered.

Professional recognition

The inclusion of the 7 Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) units equip and prepare students with necessary knowledge to enter the workforce. Students in Diploma of Accounting and Finance have the option to sit for an external paper to qualify for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Diploma in Accounting and Business (DIAB) and possibly further into CAT. Students completed the Diploma of Accounting and Finance can obtain a fast track pathway to earn the Certified Accounting Technician (CAT) designation, by completing:

1 of the DIAB papers,
2 of the 3 CAT Specialist papers,
the Foundations in Professionalism (FiP) online test, and
the Foundations Practical Experience Requirement (FPER) – one year experience.

Course fees and requirements

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Course fees

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Entry requirements

Qualifications:

Successful completion of an Australian Year 11 or international equivalent OR

Completion or partial completion of an approved tertiary qualification (including Certificates IV (completed), Diplomas, Advanced Diplomas, Associate Degrees and Degrees).

Minimum entry requirements stipulated by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency:

A student must meet one of the 5 options below to meet the minimum entry requirements which are in accordance with the Malaysian education system and are stipulated by the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) for Diploma level courses in the Accounting discipline:

a. A pass in SPM (or equivalent) with a minimum of 3 credits including Mathematics, and a pass in English; OR

b. A pass in Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) or its equivalent, with a minimum of Grade C (GP 2.0) in any subject, and credits in Mathematics and a pass in English at SPM level; OR

c. A pass in Sijil Tinggi Agama Malaysia (STAM) with a minimum grade of Maqbul (pass) and credits in Mathematics and a pass in English at SPM level; OR

d. A pass in SKM Level 3 in a related field and a pass in SPM with a minimum of 1 credit in any subject with credits in Mathematics and a pass in English; OR

e. Successful completion of an approved tertiary qualified Certificate award at Level 3 of the Malaysian Qualifications Framework.

English language requirements

English language requirements (Sarawak):

a. IELTS 5.5 (no individual band below 5.0) OR

TOEFL iBT: minimum score 60 (with no band less than 15) OR equivalent measures (https://www.swinburne.edu.my/find-course/entry-requirements.php#english-language) as recognised by the MQA

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