Unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting Assignment

CORPORATE
ACCOUNTING

ABSTRACT
The report abstracts about list of advertisement which are posted by Australian
companies for post of corporate accountants. As well as detailed information about skills,
attributes and experience to become corporate accountant is also summarized in report. Further,
role of topics included in MPA unit HI5020
Corporate Accounting, in becoming a corporate accountant is mentioned.

Table of Contents
ABSTRACT.....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
1. Job Advertisements Collection and their relevant sources.................................................4
2. Name of companies posting such advertisements and their industry breakdown..............4
3. Job Titles mentioned in advertisements collected..............................................................5
4. Required Personal Attributes mentioned in Job Advertisements Collected.......................5
5. List of Requisite Personal Attributes within the Job Advertisements Collected in a detailed
manner....................................................................................................................................6
6. Academic and Professional qualifications of a corporate accountant that have been listed9
in the advertisements collected..............................................................................................9
7. Interrelation of tasks, roles and responsibility of job advertisements with the topics of MPA
unit HI5020 Corporate accounting. .....................................................................................10
8. What additional topics, attributes or learnings outcomes are missing from MPA unit
HI5020..................................................................................................................................11
Corporate Accounting that are listed on the job advertisement..........................................11
9. Critically evaluation of the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate
accountant. As well as role of topics of MPA unit HI5020 Corporate Accounting to become a
corporate accountant.............................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
APPENDICES...............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23

INTRODUCTION
The term corporate accounting can be defined as a field of accounting that is related to a
specific accounting branch which controls accounting process of various organisations (Tschopp
and Nastanski, 2014). In broad sense, this accounting involves preparation of companies
accounts and analyse the financial results. As per the above description of corporate accounting,
it can be stated that role of a corporate accountant is responsible and crucial for companies. In
many countries, the demand of this profession is increasing by companies in last few years as
well as it is expected that this demand will raise in future.
Herein, the project report qualification and experiences for the post of a corporate
accountant is mentioned. As well as job advertisements for the post of above profession is
included in the report. Apart from it, various kind of skills and interests needed for this post is
described in detail under project.
MAIN BODY
1. Job Advertisements Collection and their relevant sources.
Under this, various kind of advertisement regarding to the corporate accounting have
been gathered from various kind of sources. All these job advertisement are collected from
different types of sites including national and international. Herein, below some sources of
collected job advertisements are mentioned such as:
Advertisement Number (On the basis
Appendices Section)
Sources Number of Sources extracted
1 Indeed.com 2
2 Job-seeker.com 3
3 Glassdor.com 2
4 Gumtree.com 1
5 Adzuna.com 1

2. Name of companies posting such advertisements and their industry breakdown
Herein, this section of the project report name of organisations who are posting
advertisement for vacant accountant posts is included. Below name of companies are mentioned
as the appendices section:
Advertisement
Number
Name of company Type of Industry
1 ALDI Supermarket
2 Robert Walters Recruitment consultancy
3 WT partners Finance consultancy
4 UBER, Strathfield Transportation
5 2 XM finance Accounting
6 Intuitive recruitment Recruitment consultancy
7 Mighty hive Media consultancy
8 Brookfield properties Construction
9 Ingenium group Information technology
3. Job Titles mentioned in advertisements collected
On the basis of below mentioned job advertisements, herein titles of required jobs are
mentioned such as:
 Corporate Accountant;
 Junior Management Accountant;
 Senior Tax Accountant;
 Tax Accountant;
 Senior Corporate Financial Accountant;
 Corporate Financial and Management Accountant;
 Financial Accountant;
 Senior Financial Accountant;

 Senior Tax Accountant.
4. Required Personal Attributes mentioned in Job Advertisements Collected.
The term personal attributes can be defined as those characteristics, skills and attributes
in an individual which are separate from rest of others (Christensen, Cottrell and Baker, 2013).
These attributes are the personal of the employees which varies from each other. Herein, below
personal attributes which are required in the nine job posts as per the appendices are mentioned
such as:
 Strong sense of ethics
 Technical skills related to selected position
 Extreme trustworthiness
 Good problem-solving skills
 Ability of coordinating
 Flexibility as per the requirement of organisation
 Accuracy in work
 Killer time management skills
 Creativity
So these are the personal attributes of below mentioned advertisements which should be included
in an individual.
5. List of Requisite Personal Attributes within the Job Advertisements Collected in a detailed
manner.
As per above mentioned part four of project report, there are different types of skills and
characteristics which are being overlooked by an organisation in the applicants, that is known as
personal attributes (About skills and attributes of corporate accountant, 2019). Herein, below
description of above mentioned skills is included that is as follows:
 Strong sense of ethics- This is one of the main personal attributes which are needed in an
employee or individual. It is not related to a particular specific job or role, this is common
attribute which is expected in an individual by organisations (Williams, 2014). Under
this, an employee is expected to perform in ethical manner such as behaving with seniors
by respect as well as doing given tasks with full of efficiency. While in the absence of