Accounting is not the only major in Australian business.

When it comes to studying in Australia, many parents don't know how to choose a major. When they asked, the children of relatives and friends around them all studied accounting, but is this accounting suitable for our own children? Will learning accounting be a big challenge for children without professional background? I heard that you can immigrate if you study accounting. Is it true that you can't immigrate if you study other majors? Children are not interested in accounting. What other majors are better than accounting and business?

First of all, I want to explain, is it good to study accounting?

From the perspective of employment immigrants, accounting is indeed a good choice; On the other hand, the accuracy and rigor required by accounting really make it difficult. So we can't just focus on the advantages of accounting and choose accounting. The most important purpose of studying abroad is to learn knowledge, and you must consider it clearly when choosing a major. Most schools in Australia have no background requirements for accounting. Students with accounting background go to graduate school. I recommend Macquarie University's accounting CPA course, one-and-a-half-year MPA course plus one-year CPA examination course, and get CPA certificate (certified public accountant) directly after graduation. For students without professional background, it is wise to choose the general MPA (Master of Professional Accounting) course, which is offered in most universities.

Next, I will focus on the non-accounting major in business for the reference of parents of students who want to know more about business major.

Business subjects are divided into several categories: accounting, finance, actuarial science, marketing and management. Let's talk about the remaining professional direction first, and let go of the accounting mentioned above.

First of all, finance, which is the closest subject to accounting but more professional than accounting, is also one of the most popular majors in business. The major of applied finance mainly uses statistical knowledge to study topics such as investment, corporate finance, enterprise merger and acquisition, risk prediction and valuation, and to study and solve some practical problems encountered in company operation. The direction of future employment is CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) financial analyst, providing investment and financial analysis services for enterprises. Take McKinsey, a world-famous enterprise, as an example. The most famous management consulting company in the world is to provide customers with strategic decisions, analyze investment risks and formulate timely and pragmatic countermeasures, thus serving the management of the world's top 100 enterprises. The overall strength of Australian schools with business as the dominant discipline is good, but it should be noted that the finance major of the University of Melbourne requires GMAT scores above 550, which is not required by other schools.

Next, marketing is marketing. Speaking of this marketing, everyone should be familiar with it. Nothing more than marketing. To put it bluntly, as a businessman, how do you find ways to sell your goods? The so-called difference is the kind of goods, tangible or intangible. Here I mainly recommend the Australian special topic "Wine Marketing". Australian wines are very famous. In Australia as a whole, due to the abundant sunshine, the wine in South Australia is the best, so the University of Adelaide is the first choice to study wine marketing. Many people sound that this major is novel and interesting, but what does this major study? Is it limited to selling wine? The answer is of course not. Wine marketing is only a discipline that combines marketing with Australian wines. A series of optional marketing courses can still be learned, such as market analysis, domestic and foreign marketing, advertising marketing, finance, consumer behavior and management. As a new discipline, wine marketing links marketing with tourism, which has a wider employment and broad prospects.

Finally, talk about management. Management can be regarded as a major with the smallest difference in subject content at home and abroad, so we students in China are no strangers to it. Since there is little difference between what you study at home and what you study abroad, you must learn the advantages and strong majors of foreign countries when you choose to go abroad. The quality of management teaching in Australia is quite high. Here I would like to recommend several advantages to you.

1. MBA

China people must be familiar with MBA. According to statistics, China was the first batch in the 1980s? Returnees? More than 50% of the students have studied this major. It is a necessary education for enterprise management, so I won't introduce it much.

Recommended schools: University of Sydney, University of New South Wales, Monash University, Macquarie University.

2. Logistics Management (Logistics Management)

Modern society is an information age, so we should pay attention to efficiency in everything we do. Logistics management directly affects the core competitiveness of enterprises. Foreign enterprises have been committed to strengthening logistics management for a long time, and our domestic enterprises have gradually realized this and learned from the world's top 500 enterprises. Therefore, students considering business administration may wish to study logistics management, and the employment rate has remained high in recent years.

Recommended schools: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, university of tasmania and Victoria University.

3. Tourism Management \ Hotel Management.

China and Australia are vast, rich in natural resources, rich in wildlife, and developed in tourism and surrounding industries. So whether you choose to immigrate to Australia or return to China after graduation, traveling is a good choice.

Recommended schools: University of Queensland, La Trobe University, Griffith University and Victoria University.

4. Actuarial specialty

According to the statistics released by the Australian Actuaries Association recently, in Australia (including New Zealand), the starting salary of a professional who has just won the title of actuary (FIAA) is about 90,000 Australian dollars (equivalent to 600,000 RMB), and the annual salary will increase by at least 1. 1 000 Australian dollars. Senior and experienced actuaries earn about A $200,000 a year, which is equivalent to an annual income of nearly RMB 654.38 +0.4 million.

Actuarial specialty has long been on the list of short-term occupations in Australia, and it can be called a high-return gold collar specialty. Actuarial education in Australia originated in Britain, and its greatest feature is the organic combination of vocational training and formal university education. Australia is the first country to establish a system of mutual exemption between actuarial education courses in universities and basic courses of qualification examination of actuarial society. Specifically, the actuarial qualification examination and training in Australia can be divided into three parts: basic course, quasi-actuary course and actuary course.

At present, six universities in Australia offer basic courses: Macquarie University, Australian National University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales and Curtin University of Science and Technology. Quasi-actuary course is a bridge between basic courses and business practice skills, while actuary course is a qualification examination organized by the Australian Actuarial Society, and two of the five professional courses are optional. Students who have a good foundation in mathematics and intend to make great achievements in the investment, securities and insurance industries in the future have unlimited prospects in choosing actuarial major.

In a word, this paper just wants to remind parents and friends of students that business major is not only accounting major, but also many wonderful choices besides accounting. When choosing a major, students should combine their learning ability and major to choose a major that suits them. Also, remember that interest is the best teacher, and choosing a major is the first step in choosing a future career direction. I hope every prospective international student can choose his own major and open a new chapter for his life!