Academic requirements for membership
If you're a student interested in becoming an NZICA member, use the following table as a guide for meeting the academic requirements for membership.
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Associate Chartered Accountant |
Accounting Technician |
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Four years of degree-level study
Completion of a recognised bachelor's degree
Completion of recognised courses in the following topics delivered by an NZICA accredited tertiary institution (see below).
Recognised courses:
- Advanced financial accounting
- Advanced management accounting
- Advanced auditing and assurance
- Advanced taxation
- Advanced business finance/treasury
- Accounting information systems
- Economics
- Organisational management
- Statistics
- Commercial law
- 30 credits of liberal studies.
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Completion of a bachelor's degree with an accounting major at an NZICA accredited tertiary institution
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Completion of a bachelor's degree at a New Zealand university, polytechnic or institute of technology, plus coverage of the following accounting and business topics at an NZICA accredited tertiary institution (see below).
Approved accounting and business topics:
- 200 level Financial accounting
- 300 level Advanced financial accounting OR Advanced management accounting
- One 300 level accounting course from one of the following areas (but not the areas chosen in bullet point 2 above):
- Financial accounting
- Management accounting
- Auditing
- New Zealand taxation
- Business finance/treasury
- Accounting information systems
- Four business courses (100 level or higher) across four of the following subject areas:
- Economics
- Organisational management
- Information Systems
- New Zealand commercial law
- Insolvency
- Marketing
- Business finance.
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Two years diploma (New Zealand Diploma in Business) or degree level study, including coverage of required accounting and business topics (see below).
Required business topics:
- Accounting principles
- Accounting practice
- New Zealand commercial law
- Economics
- Organisational management
- Business communication (not required for degree level programmes)
- Information technology
- 200-level (level 6) financial accounting
- 200-level (level 6) management accounting
- Two 200-level (level 6) courses from:
- auditing
- New Zealand taxation
- business finance
- one further course.
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