Master of Professional Accounting and Business Performance
Sydney, Australia
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
31 Jan 2026*
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2026
TUITION FEES
AUD 54,000 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for domestic students | December 1 2025 for international student
Key Summary
Build a future-proofed skillset that will help you identify business opportunities and solve accounting and business problems in innovative ways to drive organisational performance. Develop the skills you need to become an ethical business leader in management, accounting practice and beyond.
Professional accreditation
This course is accredited by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. You will need to complete compulsory units of study to satisfy professional accreditation requirements.
Why study with us?
- The University of Sydney Business School is triple accredited, placing it in the top 1% of business schools in the world.
- The University of Sydney is ranked no. 1 in Australia and no. 4 in the world for graduate employability (QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2022).
- Take advantage of our dedicated careers office and award-winning employability and industry placement programs to develop valuable skills, build global networks and gain real-world experience that will help you graduate job-ready.
- We are the only business school in Australia to be a member of the prestigious CEMS global network of business schools.
This course is designed for students who wish to pair key analytics, technology and employability skills with deep technical expertise in accounting in order to bring value to any organisation.
International student scholarships
For students from other countries
Whether you are an undergraduate, postgraduate coursework student, or a postgraduate researcher, we have an array of scholarships that could be right for you.
Bachelors and honours
We're dedicated to supporting you throughout your time at university and offer a variety of scholarships for international undergraduate students.
Postgraduate coursework
We're eager to help you take the next step in your career and have a wide range of scholarship options to support your postgraduate study.
Postgraduate research – international
We're committed to fostering the best and brightest researchers, and have a wide range of scholarship options to support international research students.
Faculty scholarships
The University of Sydney Business School
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What you’ll study
The Master of Professional Accounting and Business Performance is an accredited postgraduate coursework degree. With a design informed by industry and contemporary professional accounting practice, and taught by seven Business School Disciplines, the program provides you with professional recognition and business acumen for a successful career.
Through the program's core units of study and capstone unit, you will develop key analytics, technology and communication skills to lead in enterprise performance management, as well as build your experience with cloud-based accounting technology platforms.
You will also complete electives selected from a wide range of Business School units of study, including options for industry placements and projects.
You will complete:
- 14 core units, including:
- 6 foundation units
- 7 advanced units
- 1 capstone unit
- 2 elective units
Our Master of Professional Accounting and Business Performance graduates are well equipped for a range of careers across a variety of organisations, including:
- chief financial officer
- chief information officer
- financial controller
- company secretary
- financial analyst or planner
- forensic accountant
- tax and estate adviser
- financial and management accountant
- auditor
- system designer
- investment advisor and manager
- management consultant
Demonstrate your commitment and readiness to succeed in business school by taking the GMAT exam – the most widely used exam for admissions that measures your critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Download the GMAT mini quiz to get a flavour of the questions you’ll find in the exam.