New Zealand Diploma in Business (Accounting)
Course details
| NZQF Level | 5 |
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About the course
Build on your interest in numbers and business and gain the skills, knowledge and technical skills to provide accounting services and business advice to companies, organisations and individuals.
Accountants are in demand in Aotearoa New Zealand, and there are good prospects to advance in your career. But there is more to accounting than running the numbers. It means understanding the complexities of business processes, planning, and the New Zealand business environment.
This programme allows you to launch your career in accounting with the operational skills to manage a business's daily functions and provides a safe environment to develop essential employable skills, including effective communication, collaboration and teamwork across mediums, problem-solving and decision-making.
Career opportunities
This qualification will equip you with the skills and knowledge needed to work in various business entities in accounting roles such as finance administrator, inventory controller, and accounts receivable/payable officer. You may also be able to contribute to community groups in volunteer accounting functions.
Study opportunities
You can further your expertise with a Bachelor of Accounting(external link). Credits from this diploma can be used towards the degree programme.
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) recognise those students who complete the Level 5 Diploma in Business with the Accounting Strand as having the academic requirements to become a provisional member and enter the Accounting Technician programme(external link). To complete this process, you must apply via the CAANZ website to gain provisional membership upon completion of the qualification.
Most classes will be video linked from our Nelson campus for students studying on our Marlborough campus. Video link students meet and study together on the Marlborough campus and then interact with their fellow students, and the lecturer, in Nelson via the video linking software.
Marlborough students have full access to Library Learner Services and one-on-one tutor sessions as required.
To be admitted to this programme, all applicants must be at least 16 years of age on the date the programme starts and meet one of the following requirements:
- NCEA Level 2 or equivalent
- Successful completion of an approved qualification at Level 3 or above with a relevant pathway.
Special and Discretionary admission is also available.
International applicants must provide evidence that they have the necessary English language proficiency required for the Programme as demonstrated by an IELTS score of 5.5 (academic) with no individual band lower than 5.0 from one test taken in the preceding two years, or an equivalent described in NZQA Rules(external link).
About the provider
Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology (NMIT) is a Government Institute with campuses in Nelson and Marlborough.
NMIT is a New Zealand Qualifications Authority Category 1 (the highest) Institute. Our programmes are designed alongside industry to create work-ready graduates that meet local and international job market needs.
You'll find NMIT tutors care a lot about student success, and classes are small enough that they know you by name.