Accounting and Finance

Experience real financial trading

As a University of Adelaide accounting and finance student, you'll learn to use the same systems that practising finance professionals use, in our state-of-the-art Financial Markets Lab. Utilising the Lab's real-time connections to all major global finance markets, you will:

• construct investment portfolios
• stress-test their performance in specific market conditions
• observe live market performance
• monitor real-time financial news feeds, via the powerful Refinitiv Eikon database.

You'll graduate with the experience and confidence to immediately contribute in a professional finance environment.

Build the mindset to chart your own path

As Australia's #1 ranked university for entrepreneurship and engagement^{^}, we will ensure virtually everything you do in your business studies builds your capacity to innovate and make things happen.

• All our business degrees include an entrepreneurship course, to boost your personal development and professional growth.
• All business degrees give you the flexibility to pursue areas of particular interest or passion.
• You'll also have the opportunity to hone your new-venture-building skills in our eChallenge program, and ThincLab business incubators.
• And you'll get the chance to gain priceless real-world experience through industry internships.

Career prospects

Employment growth for the majority of accounting and finance roles ranges broadly from moderate to strong^†.

• Finance programs provide excellent grounding for pursuing a Chartered Financial Analyst program.
• Graduates of accounting programs can gain associate membership with CPA Australia and CA ANZ.