Careers

The MAcc programme serves as a bridge to local and international professional qualifications. We have also been well recognised by the industry as a leading Master programme in accounting that yields graduates with promising career prospects.

Personalised career support

We offer personal advice, guidance and support throughout the job-finding process, and go the extra mile to help students realise their potential and give their career a head start. Students will even continue to receive our support after graduated.

Connect with industry leaders

Keeping close connections with the business communities, we offer to our graduates, plenty of networking opportunities with accounting bodies, leading firms and financial companies through social events, career talks, career workshops, corporate visits and more. Since the launch of the programme in 1998, we have maintained strong bonds with our alumni, providing students access to professionals with experience in a variety of sectors.

Career workshops

Students will be trained in CV writing and interview preparation to help them in the job hunting process. We also organise various trainings to help students gain the professional knowledge and skills that they will need for their future career.

Trainings

• Bloomberg Terminal
• Cantonese
• Excel
• LinkedIn Profile
• Mock Interview
• Python

One-to-one coaching

We invite accounting, finance and HR professionals to serve as career advisors for our students. Students can benefit from their rich experience through the one-to-one career coaching sessions, helping students plan their career roadmap.

Mentorship programme

The mentorship programme provides a platform to connect students with alumni from various career fields and academic mentors. Mentees will have the opportunity to receive valuable career and academic advice from their mentors.

Internship opportunities

Students will have a variety of internship opportunities in Hong Kong and in Mainland China to ensure they gain plenty of exposure to the industry through work experience at accounting firms, financial and securities companies and banks.

• Companies
  • Bank of China
  • BDO
  • Citi Bank
  • CITIC Capital
  • CTI Capital Management
  • DBS Bank
  • Deloitte
  • Ernst & Young
  • General Electric Company
  • Guangfa Securities
  • Guotai Junan Securities
  • Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing Limited
  • Huawei
  • KPMG
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Shenzhen Stock Exchange
  • SHINEWING

Where our graduates work

We leverage our extensive connections in the industry and powerful alumni network to enhance the career opportunities available to our graduates. MAcc students will graduate with a high proficiency in both practical and theoretical accounting, ready for a range of promising career options.

Some of our graduates continue in the accounting industry, developing expertise in auditing, taxation, forensic accounting and consulting. Others choose to work in finance, banking and related areas, becoming management trainees, financial analysts, risk-management consultants and investment analysts in private funds, investment banks and consulting firms.

• Employers
  • Bank of China
  • CCB (Asia)
  • CITIC Capital
  • DBS
  • Deloitte
  • Ernst & Young
  • General Electric Company
  • Guotai Junan Securities
  • HSBC
  • IBM
  • ICBC (Asia)
  • J.P. Morgan
  • KPMG
  • Kunwu Jiuding Capital
  • Moody’s
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Shanghai Stock Exchange
  • Tencent
  • UBS

Professional recognitions

• Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA)

  By completing the core courses and relevant foundation courses, MAcc graduates are eligible to enrol in the HKICPA Qualification Programme (QP). For exemptions granted at QP Associate Level, please refer to here.

• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

  The ACCA grants the following exemptions to those who complete Part One:

  • Business and Technology (BT)
  • Management Accounting (MA)
  • Financial Accounting (FA)
  • Corporate and Business Law (LW)
  • Audit and Assurance (AA)
  • Financial Management (FM)
  • Financial Reporting (FR)
  • Performance Management (PM)
  • Taxation (TX)

• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

  Once you have graduated, you may take the Master’s gateway route to the CIMA Professional Qualification.

  If you pass the CIMA Gateway Exam, you will be granted 11 exemptions that include subjects from the certificate, operational and management level exams, allowing you to progress directly to the strategic level of the CIMA Professional Qualification.

• CPA Australia

  By completing the core courses and relevant foundation courses*, MAcc graduates will be exempted for the following foundation papers and entry into the professional CPA programme.

  • Economics and Markets
  • Foundations of Accounting
  • Fundamentals of Business Law
  • Business Finance
  • Financial Accounting and Reporting
  • Management Accounting

  *Economics, Computed Based Information Systems, Statistical Analysis for Business Decisions

• The Taxation Institute of Hong Kong (TIHK)

  By completing the core courses and relevant elective courses*, MAcc graduates will be exempted for four papers in Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) examination:

  • Accounting and Finance
  • Hong Kong Tax
  • International Tax
  • PRC Tax

  *International Tax Planning & Management, Taxation in China