Corporate Accounting Job Market Analysis: HI5020 Assignment Report

This report analyzes corporate accounting job advertisements sourced from online job portals like Seek and Indeed, covering the period from July 22nd, 2019. It examines the number of available positions, identifies companies offering corporate accounting roles, and details the specific job titles and responsibilities. The report delves into the personal attributes, such as creativity, reliability, and ethical standards, that are essential for a corporate accountant. It also outlines the academic and professional qualifications, including relevant degrees and experience, sought by employers. The analysis references the HI5020 Corporate Accounting unit, aligning the findings with course objectives. The report concludes with a discussion of the key takeaways from the job market analysis and the importance of continuous learning and ethical conduct in the field. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the corporate accounting job market, highlighting the skills, qualifications, and attributes that employers seek in potential candidates.

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Executive summary:
This report is providing some basic ideas about job portals, which are offering different kind
of accounting jobs. After such individual job details this report is providing the personal
attributes of an accountant while performing his duties. After such it is indicating the
individual academic and professional qualification that required to maintain as the qualities of
a corporate accountant. Next to the report is providing the details about HI5020 the corporate
accounting in which the evaluation of corporate accountant details are provided.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Discussions:................................................................................................................................4
Question 1 Answer:................................................................................................................4
Question 2 Answers:..............................................................................................................4
Question 3 Answers:..............................................................................................................5
Question 4 Answers:..............................................................................................................7
Question 5 Answers:..............................................................................................................9
Question 6 Answers:............................................................................................................11
Question 7 Answers:............................................................................................................12
Question 8 Answers:............................................................................................................13
Question 9 Answers:............................................................................................................14
Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................16
References & Bibliography:.....................................................................................................17
APPENDIX:.............................................................................................................................21

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Introduction:
Job portals are generally considered as the area of job search where generally
different kind of jobs is available for individual qualified persons. In the present situation,
those areas usually conducted through online services. In Australia for such job searching
purpose many online job portals are available those are like; seek, Indeed, Australian Job
search, APS jobs etc. Some of them are Government-sponsored, and others are privates. In
those job portals jobs are segregated according to the subject expertise, such are like;
Accounting, Engineering, Doctor, Managerial etc.
In case of Accounting, many individual jobs are available regarding the corporate
accounting, corporate and management accountant, senior accountant, tax accountant,
corporate financial accountant, corporate finance and management accountant, accountant
corporate finance etc. with the using of such portals many individual fresh and qualified
graduates are try to find their required jobs based on their area of expertise. Not even the
fresh graduates only, those portals are also used by the experienced expertise because the
experience represents some different values while performing a unique and different job
(Pdfs.semanticscholar.org Pg: 08-10 2019).
In case of evaluating the corporate accounting jobs, a candidate needs to expertise in
accounts and other relating fields. In the same way in case of a Tax accountant, the
professional need to know all the provisions and up to date amendments relating to the Tax
accounting. This assignment is using Indeed and Seek jobs as the job portals in case of
findings the corporate accounting jobs during the period starting from 22nd July 2019. In the
case of corporate accounting jobs, the candidates need to expertise in commerce background
along with such he needs some extra beneficial knowledge regarding the specialization fields.

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Discussions:
Question 1 Answer:
In case of analysing the number of jobs posted in the job portals, total 30 jobs
advertisement are located, which is relating to the field of corporate accounting, senior
managerial accounting, organizational and management accountant, Tax and financial
accountant etc.
For the purpose of analysing the job advertisement relating to corporate accounting
used the Seek, Indeed and APS Job search online portal. In case of Seek online portal total 18
jobs are found, which is relating to corporate accounting and in case of Indeed total 12 jobs
are found for the same category (SEEK 2019).
Question 2 Answers:
In case of evaluating the individual corporate accounting jobs many different
companies are found, who are offering such particular types of jobs in online job
portals(Apsjobs.gov.au 2019). Such companies are as follows;
Natural and Financial resources -- GFG Alliance
Accounting Firms— BDO
2XM Finance
Hays Accountancy & Finance.
Pherrus Financial services
Cosmetics manufacturer-- L’OREAL
Auditing and Finance company-- Moore Stephens (WA) Pty Ltd
Insurance company-- AUB group Limited

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Automotive Industry-- BORG
Computer software Industry-- Spatial Corp
Electronic supplies-- Rexel
Mining, Oil and Gas-- Stellar Recruitment
Chemical and Container manufacturing-- CHEP
Airline services-- Jetstar Airways.
Advice agency-- Allura Partners
Gold manufacturing-- Minjar Gold
Food processing—Nestle.
Question 3 Answers:
For the purpose of evaluating the job advertisement relating to corporate accountant
many individual categories are found, which are posted in online job portals(Au.indeed.com
2019). Such different types of jobs are as follows;
Job Title Company Names
Corporate Accountant
1. GFG Alliance
2. BDO
3. L’OREAL
4. Moore Stephens (WA) Pty Ltd.
5. AUB group Limited
6. 2XM Finance.
1. Rexel
2. Pherrus Financial services.

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Senior Accountant 3. Stellar Recruitment.
4. CHEP
Corporate And Management
Accountant.
1. Mine super
2. Sharp & carter Finance and
accounting Sydney.
3. Jetstar Airways
4. Allura Partners
5. Minjar Gold
Tax Accountant
1. Buckleybs
2. Watson &Hegarty
3. Hays Accountancy & Finance
4. Allianz
5. Energy Australia
6. Nestle
Corporate financial and
management accountant
1. Paybang Pty ltd
2. Orbital Australia Pty Ltd
3. Pepper Group ltd
4. Doyle Executive
5. Sharp & Carter Finance and
Accounting Sydney
1. Charterhouse
2. Moore Stephens (WA) Pty Ltd

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Senior Accountant : Tax and
corporate reporting
3. Michael Page Accounting &
Finance
4. Oceans Group
5. Reo Group.
Question 4 Answers:
As a corporate accountant, the professional need to maintain some quality in relating
to personal attributes. Such qualities make the professional expertise in his field and also help
to achieve overall goodwill during the period of his carrier (Na-businesspress.com Pg: 18-20
2019). Those quality attributes are as follows;
Nature of creativity:
To make some proper and positive impacts towards the organizations overall
objectives an accountant needs tomaintain the level of creativeness in his performance.
Maintain reliability:
To be an accountant, such professional need to maintain the level of reliability, loyal
and also the quality relating to the honesty, which an accountant must need to follow.
Field knowledge:
To perform the duties efficiently an accountant need to keep depth knowledge relating
to his field, which will help him to gather effective goodwill during his professional carrier.
Maintain the norms:

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In case of performing the duties a corporate accountant need to follow the basic norms
relating to his duties and as an accountant he also need to follow the accounting norms and
principles, which is necessary to conduct his performance properly.
Accountability:
One of the basic attributes of an accountant is the accountability, which he needs to
follow in case of performing his duties efficiently.
Skills enhancing:
An accountant should always try to enhancing his skills during his performance. With
such enhancing features the accountant would able to perform his duties properly.
Maintain accuracy level:
The corporate accountant need to maintain the level of accuracy while performing his
duties along with such he should also try to increase the level of his accurate performance
constantly.
Attributes relating to learning:
Learning attributes is considered as one of the important factor in case of performing
the duties of an accountant diligently.
Sense of ethics:
As an accountant every corporate accountant needs to maintain the ethical standards
while performing his performance. In such purpose the person need to maintain the proper
integrity and honesty during conduct his performance.

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Question 5 Answers:
The general attributes and performance that influenced the character of an individual
corporate accountant are as follows (Friday 2019);
Creative Tools:
While considering the quality attributes of an accountant, level of creativity is one of
the important factors that influencing. In the present situation every accountant needs to
follow the level of creativity in case of maintain the accounting records or performing any
other jobs relating to it. For an accountant it’s require to improve their individual capabilities
by issuing some different and unique ideas in regards to individual strategies, which helps to
solve or reduce the organizational hazards that create burden to achieve organizational
objectives efficiently.
Trust and honesty:
Another quality for an accountant, which is required to maintain while performing his
duties, is the level of integrity, reliability and also trust. Those three, provides proper help to
the accountant in case of increase the value of his individual goodwill during the period of his
carrier. While perform the duties for an organization the accountant needs to maintain
confidentiality if it is relevant for the organization, such confidentiality is based on the trust
and reliability that an accountant need to maintain.
Basic field related knowledge:
For every individual corporate accountant the person need some basic as well as
specific knowledge relating to their individual field. In case of performing the duties
diligently the accountant need to know the overall organizational goals and also some basic
ideas that provide influence during his performance.

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Maintain teamwork:
While performing the accounting & bookkeeping it is necessary to using the team
efforts. An accountant needs to maintain the ability to work in a group or team while
delivering his performance. Such team work may be reflect through the meetings with clients
or any relating coordinated jobs that helps to achieve the ultimate goal of an organization.
Organizational Skills:
A corporate accountant needs to perform his job with lot of paperwork, where
includes a lot of amounts and data’s on individual day basis. In case of keep maintain those
details properly an accountant need effective knowledge and skills of organizational activities
so that he can perform his job diligently.
Enhancing the accuracy level:
The corporate accountant, need to maintain the level of his performance accuracy
during the period of conduction his job. Sometimes misplacement of a single digit, not avail a
comma in the right place, etc might cause a result of huge financial loss for an organization.
From the above point of view, it can be concluded that to maintain the performance level
accurately an accountant has to increase his level of accuracy and need to concentrate
properly while performing his duties.
Learning Attributes:
In case of an accountant to perform his job properly need to have a strong grasp of
basic accounting principle along with some innovative ideas. His knowledge need to keep in
up to date form, so that it can able to perform in a flexible situation. With the implementation
of new theories and laws, taxation amendments an accounting professional need to
continuous up to date. So that, the accountant can handle the changing circumstances easily,
this is probably possible with the continuous learning intentions of an accountant. As an

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accountant, the person must ensure about the understandings of the latest news and other
things relating to their fields. If accountants do not keep the learning attributes in his mind,
therefore, he will not consider as the assets to an organization in case of delivering his best
performance.
Ethical Sense of an accountant:
In case of accounting, generally ethics and morality is consider as the primary field of
applied accounting, which is relating to business ethics as well as human ethics. In other
words it is consider as the accounting application, with moral judgments and an ethical
manner, which is reflecting in accounting ethics. For an accountant, the precious and valuable
assets are the reputations that he earned through the application of his honesty and reliability
during his performance in an organization throughout his carrier. Normally an accountant,
who followed the road of principles relating to ethics, can able to generate success in the long
run of their service life.
Question 6 Answers:
According to the advertisement the general academic and professional qualification
that is required for a corporate accountant in case of judgement the qualities are as
follows(Au.indeed.com 2019);
Academic Qualifications:
 Need knowledge of basic and specific concepts, which is relating to accounts and
accounting principles.
 As a professional qualities need any one of the degrees; Chartered Global
management accountant (CGMA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA),
Certified Internal auditor (CIA), Certified Fraud examiner (CFE), Chartered Financial
analyst (CFA), Certified Information system advisor (CISA) etc.

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Professional Qualifications:
 Minimum of 4 years' or more experience as an accountant.
 Need Strong in written and verbal English communications.
 Need some strong numerical skills and problem solving skills.
 Need to maintain Excellence in time management and proven accuracy.
 Need to be good in communication with team performers and encourage them.
 Need depth knowledge in computer and other accounting software’s.
Question 7 Answers:
Followed the concepts of MPA unit HI5020 the corporate accounting, it is generally
the theoretical framework and using of practical techniques relating to accounting for
corporate accounting groups, which is particularly engaged in accounting. Such area, which
is covered in this MPA unit are including the legal formation of a company, the different
ways of distribution segments relating to profits, procedures need to followed in case of
capital reconstruction, preparations of liquidated and consolidated income statements and
financial statements followed the accounting principles and standards along with rules and
regulations relating to stock exchanges.
Go through the advertisement criteria an accountant needs to maintain some basic and
specific qualities, which is relating to academic as well as professional qualities. As an
accountant, the professional must need to maintain the level integrity and honesty while
performing his duties and also need to cover some professional degrees in a particular field so
that he can able to perform his duties diligently.
In the situation of basic relations between the advertisement and the MPA unit
HI5020 corporate accounting is that, both of those two’s are particularly focused on the

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performance of an accountant, who needs to deliver his duties towards the organization
efficiently so that the overall organizational goals and objectives can be achieved. While
performing such duties the person has to follow some basic principles relating to accounting
and also need to maintain the formats of accounting; like the consolidated income and
financial statements. While appointing a corporate accountant the basic thing that the
company wants, such accounting person is capable to perform the entire accounting task
effectively in a diligent manner and followed the HI5020 is also expressing the views that
need to maintain by an accountant while conducting his performance.
So, followed the above discussion, it can conclude that the advertisement and the task
both are expressing the general views that an accountant that need to maintain in case of
performing their duties diligently towards a particular motive, which is relating to overall
completion of organizational objectives.
Question 8 Answers:
In the MPA unit HI5020 the corporate accounting, it is the theoretical framework and
using of practical techniques relating to accounting for corporate accounting groups. Such
area, which is covered in this unit are including the legal formation of a company, the
different ways of distribution segments relating to profits, procedures need to followed in
case of capital reconstruction, preparations of liquidated and consolidated income statements
and financial statements. However such topics are missing one of the important factors,
which is an accountant. In case of performing the accounting, the person is involved mainly
is an accountant. The quality and qualifications need to maintain by such accountant in case
of performing his duties are missing in HI5020 the corporate accounting. The integrity,
honesty that needs to maintain are also missing in this topic. More over the main person who
perform and the quality he need to show in his performance are not covering in the above
mentioned topic.

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Question 9 Answers:
Followed the provisions relating to advertisements, which are posted in the online job
portals regarding the requirement of professional corporate accountant, need to maintain
some quality in their qualification as well as experiences while appointing in a company.
Such attributes are given below (Role of the Management Accountant 2019);
Basic knowledge:
The professional, who is going to appoint in the company as a corporate accountant
must possess some basic ideas relating to accounting principles and applications. Without
such basic knowledge an accountant not able to perform his duties diligently and this will
make some negative impacts on overall organizational goal and achievements. So in that case
an accountant must require some basic knowledge regarding his field to perform effectively.
Proper Professional qualification:
To perform individual performance efficiently an accountant need to expertise in his
particular field and for such purpose accountant need to develop his knowledge with some
professional degrees and qualities. Some of those professional degrees are CA, CMA,CGMA,
CFE, CFA, CISA etc. which an accountant need to hold as his professional qualification.
Integrity and Honesty:
As a professional, the accountant needs to maintain his nature of integrity and honesty
while performing his duties. If the person is not loyal towards the organizations, therefore, it
will suffer inefficiencies, which make some negative impacts in organizational goals. The
integrity and honesty plays an important role in case of individual’s goal and achievements.

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Experience:
Experience is considered one of the important factors that influence the overall carrier
of an accountant. Such experience is indicating the knowledge that use to gather throughout
the year relating to developing the skill and knowledge.
Communication skills:
For every job, communication is considered as one of the important element in
performing properly. An accountant needs to expertise in case of communication while
interacting with an individual or group of customers. Such skill used to provide helps to
achieve overall individual as well as organization goals.
Knowledge of computer:
An accountant normally use computer while performing their accounting duties. For
such purpose every individual person need some basic as well as depth knowledge regarding
accounting software’s and other programmes, which will helps to achieve their individual
objectives.
In MPA unit HI5020 the corporate accounting, provides the theoretical framework
and using of practical techniques relating to accounting for corporate accounting groups.
Such area, which is covered in this unit are including the legal formation of a company, the
different ways of distribution segments relating to profits, procedures need to followed in
case of capital reconstruction, preparations of liquidated and consolidated income statements
and financial statements. etc. Using this MPA unit the overall understanding relates to the
corporate accounting principles are very much cleared. The quality, which is essential for an
accountant in their knowledge and performance, is reflecting in such units. With the clear
idea and knowledge about these MPA units, the basic requirements of an accountant and the
performing quality can be easily evaluated.

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Conclusion:
This report can be concluded with expressing the views that for the purpose of job
searching, online job portals plays an important role. In case of job relating to corporate
accounting need to expertise knowledge in accounting fields. In this report is providing some
job portals, which are offering some different kind of jobs relating to accounting. After such
individual job details this report is providing the personal attributes that is necessary for an
accountant while performing his duties. Next to it, this report is indicating the individual
academic and professional qualification those are required to maintain as the qualities of a
corporate accountant. Next to the report is providing the details about HI5020 the corporate
accounting and also the additional topics, attributes or learning outcomes that are missing
from MPA unit HI5020. At the end this report is evaluating the MPA unit HI5020, which is
provide help in gaining the skills, experience and attributes needed to become a corporate
accountant.

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