Certificate IV in Accounting

Course Outline

This qualification reflects accounting job roles in financial services and other industries requiring accounting support functions.

Persons providing a BAS service for a fee or other reward (other than employees) must be registered by the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB).

A Business Activity Statement (BAS) service is a tax agent service that relates to:

• ascertaining liabilities, obligations or entitlements of an entity that arises, or could arise, under a BAS provision; or
• advising an entity about liabilities, obligations or entitlements of the entity or another entity that arise, or could arise, in their dealings with the Commissioner in relation to a BAS provision;

and

• representing an entity in their dealings with the Commissioner of Taxation; and
• is provided in circumstances where the entity can reasonably be expected to rely on the service for either or both of the following purposes:
• to satisfy liabilities or obligations that arise, or could arise, under a BAS provision;
• to claim entitlements that arise, or could arise, under a BAS provision;
• To claim entitlements that arise, or could arise, under a BAS provision.

The primary pathway from this qualification is employment in accounting job roles with duties such as:
completing Business Activity Statements (BAS) and other office taxes

• operational reporting /producing non-complex management reports including compiling budget information
• compiling data for job costing reports
• supervising the operation of computer-based financial systems
• classifying, recording and reporting accounting information
• maintaining inventory records
• managing a small office
• ensuring relevant legal requirements are adhered to

Course Structure

Core

Elective