Develop current and transferable skills for accounting and finance. Our courses you will give you access to job opportunities in a wide range of areas.
Our qualifications will expose you to a combination of industry current lecturers, speakers, latest industry practices and innovative group activities. You can specialise in a range of areas including accounting, bookkeeping, accounting software, aspects of tax documentation, operational and financial reporting.
Accounting and bookkeeping qualifications from North Metro TAFE will give you the foundations to manage a dynamic career and future opportunities.
Course list
Diploma of Accounting
Keep your skills in accounting curent and relevant>
Enhance your accounting knowledge by increasing your skills of budgets and forecasts. You'll also gain practical experience in managing accounting information and developing financial documentation
Accounting is the language of practical business life
This course builds on the Certificate IV in Accounting and provides you with skills in creating manual and computerised summaries of the financial transactions of an organisation.
Keen to get started? We offer this course on campus and online.
Accounting Principles Skill Set
Build your administrative accounting and bookkeeping skills
This nationally recognised skill set is designed for people employed in accounting and bookkeeping roles who use knowledge of accounting principles to perform a range of financial tasks in a variety of industries.
Build your administrative accounting and bookkeeping skills
This nationally recognised skill set is designed for people employed in accounting and bookkeeping roles who use knowledge of accounting principles to perform a range of analytical tasks in a variety of industries.
Successful completion of this skill set may provide you with credit towards FNS40217 Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping and also meets the entry requirement for FNS50217 Diploma of Accounting.
This skill set covers disciplines such as:
- Processing financial transactions
- Extracting interim reports
- Creation and operation of a computer accounting system
- Establishing and maintaining payroll systems
- completion of business activity statements
Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping
An excellent start to a career in accounting
You will develop a broad rang of accounting skills including accounting software knowledge and learning to prepare financial reports. Gain the skills for work as a payroll clerk, bookkeeper or accounts clerk.
An excellent start to a career in accounting
This course provides an insight into the issues and processes of accounting for an organisation and prepares you for work as a payroll clerk or bookkeeper.
You'll learn how to set up and maintain computerised accounts, establish payroll systems, maintain inventory records, prepare financial reports, prepare and lodge business and instalment activity statements and provide advice to taxpayers in relation to activity statements.
You will graduate with current, practical bookkeeping and accounting skills that are attractive to prospective employers.
Successful completion of the course meets the Tax Practitioners Board academic requirements for registration as a BAS agent.
This course also prepares you for entry into the Diploma of Accounting.
Keen to get started? We offer this course on campus and online, and, if you are working in the industry and have two years' experience using accounting software, we give you the option of gaining the qualification sooner, by completing the course in an Intensive Evening Program, see below for further details.
Certificate III in Accounts Administration
Gain the building blocks to a career in accounting
This course will give you the fundamental skills to work in accounting in any industry, these essential skills and knowledge will open up work and study options.
An excellent qualification to launch your highly successful and rewarding career
This qualification will introduce you to a career in accounting. You'll gain essential accounting skills and terminology to help you manage finances for an organisation.
It is particularly suited to anyone who has just completed school, is contemplating a career change or re-entering the workforce.
If you have an eye for figures, can think on your feet, and enjoy working with others, then this is an excellent qualification to launch you towards a highly successful and rewarding career.
Operate a Small Business Skill Set
This skill set is free for everyone
You'll gain the skills you need to be business or job ready in any field of small business.
If you're currently operating or thinking about starting up a small business, or would like to get job ready for an administrative support position in a small business operation, this is the skill set for you!
The Operate a Small Business Skill Set offers a fantastic range of skills and knowledge to get you job ready. You'll learn how to design and produce business documents and publications, digitally design and develop text-based documents, develop spreadsheets through the use of both cloud-based and non-cloud based applications, identify financial requirements of a business including profit targets, cash flow projections and strategies to garner financial support, and understand workplace health and safety (WHS) legislation and its application to safe work practices. It even covers how to create and build a social networking presence using social media tools and applications.
Please note this skill set is experiencing high demand and places are limited.