Accounting Waikato Institute of Technology

Overview

Build on your interest in numbers and gain the skills to become an accounting professional. Accounting is the financial language of measuring, interpreting and communicating financial information for businesses and organisations. Accountants are in demand in Aotearoa, New Zealand and worldwide, with good prospects to advance your career. 

In your third year, you will also undertake a professional accounting project with a local business. This opportunity allows you to apply your learnings in a real-life, hands-on work environment that you can add to your CV for future employment.

This Bachelor of Accounting offered by Waikato Institute of Technology has both CAANZ and CPA accreditation meeting their academic eligibility for full membership, and can be studied either part-time or full-time. This allows graduates to become chartered accountants and comes with a range of benefits and networks across Aotearoa, New Zealand and worldwide. Our course structure gives you a breadth and depth of skills and knowledge to work as an accountant, with our graduates being known not only for being highly skilled, but also for being able to hit the ground running.

Career:

An accounting qualification can lead you into all kinds of industries, working as a trusted business adviser to make strategic financial decisions while reducing exposure to financial risk. Graduates may go on to work in roles such as:

• Chartered accountant
• Chief financial officer
• Company accountant
• Management accountant
• Auditor
• Tax accountant
• Banking and finance management
• Risk manager
• Financial controller
• Business consultant