Graduate Diploma in Accounting

at NorthTec - Auckland Campus New Zealand

Explore today’s changing and dynamic business environment. Learn to apply management skills at operational and strategic levels.

Learn in an interactive learning environment that reflects the changing nature of business nationally and globally. You will gain an understanding of the factors that impact people’s behaviour in organisations, learn processes to manage projects and change in the workplace, and explore developing and managing people. You have the opportunity to apply your learning to the real world in an industry project.

In this programme you will gain the knowledge, understanding and skills to required to work as a Quantity Surveyor.

What you will learn
Graduates of this qualification will, in the workplace, be able to:

• Understand and apply knowledge of the roles, standard documentation and administrative requirements of the construction industry, and communicate in a construction related context.
• Operate within the statutory and regulatory environment as it applies to the construction and design of buildings.
• Manage construction and resource allocation, programming and construction activities, for a medium building and for medium and large buildings, understand the principles related to the provision of services.
• Evaluate and select materials and finishes for building projects, taking into account environmental aspects of the design and construction techniques to be used.
• Apply a broad knowledge of the structure and structural principles for building work including foundations, substructure, the envelope and the interior, and passive fire protection systems for medium and large buildings.
• Analyse, select and administer construction contracts including the preparation of a tender submission from trade sections and other financial components and value building works up to and including final account statements.
• Work in a team and identify organisational principles in a construction and consulting environment.

Quantity Surveying strand graduates will also be able to:

• Analyse and present feasibility information and preliminary estimates to clients.
• Assemble quantity surveying documentation relevant to specialist and specific trade sections and measure a schedule of quantities for a small building of an individual trade section including services.
• Collate all priced components into a tender submission for medium and large buildings using tender process knowledge.

This program builds on basic accounting knowledge and includes financial and management accounting, taxation,advanced financial and management accounting and an industry project. Graduates will develop competencies in advanced accounting concepts relating to finance, tax, financial and management accounting, and be eligible for a professional accounting designation with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

This program aims to develop learners’ skills in project management and the management of information technologies. The program contents include business analysis, system analysis and design, management of information and communication technologies, advanced business analysis and an industry project.