This is a Year 2, Core Unit in the Master of Professional Accounting. For Course Learning Outcomes and further information relating to the Master of Professional Accounting program please visit our website http://www.mit.edu.au/study-with-us/programs/master-professional-accounting.

In this unit, we will apply a flipped classroom instructional strategy to maximise the engagement of students and active learning activities. This strategy will allow instructors to understand students’ difficulties to the maximum level that will facilitate to bring different learning preferences. In this unit we will apply this approach in the following ways:

• Before the class, instructor will provide a new set of study topics and materials to students to prepare for the upcoming class.
• During the class, instructor will encourage and engage students to apply and analyse the Pre-assigned task with idea-exchange and feedback approach from the pre class activities stated above.
• After the class, the instructor will make sure that students are able to practice, develop and create knowledge through the assigned tasks from the in class activities.

Finally the student is totally immersed into all activities from preparing before the class, during and after class.  The culmination of all these activities enriches the student’s overall understanding of the unit at large.

Students undertaking this unit may find their own industry based project, which must be approved by the Industry Project Coordinator, prior to commencement.  Students also have the option of an industry based project secured by MIT at an additional nominal fee.

This unit aims to provide the students with an opportunity to undertake project work for 150 hours in one trimester, and provide students with realistic industry knowledge, skills and experience so as to be ‘workready’. This unit will further equip students with the knowledge, abilities and skills of fundamentals of project management body of knowledge, and to bring together educational learning to that of work organisation new learning opportunities in the workplace. Students work with a client to execute work-based projects relevant to Accounting, and work with a project supervisor who has defined the task deliverables of the project to be undertaken. 

As part of undertaking an industry based project, formal “Pre-Commencement Workshops” are scheduled before the start of the trimester (Week 1) and attendance at theses workshops is compulsory for students enrolled in this unit.

The workshops, conducted are designed to assist the student to learn to:

• Understand the in-depth study of project management body of knowledge and its applicability.
• Behave professionally, including ethical practices in a workplace.
• Research work-based project/s within their discipline.
• Execute work-based structure proposed by client’s needs.
• Execute time-schedules for their task deliverables as proposed by their Client/s
• Work and perform in a team.
• Work Health Safety and safe workplace behaviour.

This Unit requires students to:

• Work in small teams. The number of team members will be determined by the nature of the project and must be approved by the Industry Project Supervisor.
• Successfully deliver an industry based project in their related discipline of study.
• Liaise with a Client.

In addition to the Pre-Commencement Workshops, there are formal weekly classes. Students are also required to meet regularly with their Industry Project Supervisor [online discussions may be offered in addition to the face-to- face meetings]. Students are required to have their industry project approved by the Industry Project Coordinator prior to commencement of the project.