Business and Finance

Crunch the numbers with a career as an accountant.

The Diploma of Accounting provides participants with the opportunity to undertake professional accounting job roles in financial services and other industries, including tax agents, accounts payable and accounts receivable officers, payroll service providers, and employees performing a range of accounting tasks for organisations in a range of industries.

Participants will learn how to apply solutions to a range of often complex problems, and analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources. Participants will learn how to plan, coordinate and evaluate their own work and provide guidance to others within defined guidelines.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Crunch the numbers with a career in accounting and bookkeeping.

The Certificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping provides participants with an opportunity to work as a bookkeeper in a business or within their own practice. Participants will learn skills to develop their bookkeeping and financial report preparation knowledge, complete all bookkeeping requirements and complete BAS information for employers and clients.

Participants will also be able to develop a range of generic business skills. This qualification is recognised as meeting the future requirements for bookkeepers wishing to provide BAS services as a professional contract bookkeeper, either working under the direction of a Tax Agent/Public Accountant, for a bookkeeping business or franchise, or as a BAS service provider.

Enter an industry you can count on.

The Certificate III in Accounts Administration is suitable for participants who wish to work in the administration side of accounting. This includes financial data entry, processing accounts and payrolls, producing financial reports and providing customer service in financial transactions.

Participants will learn how to:

• Design and produce business documents
• Operate computerised accounting systems
• Perform and process financial transactions and extract reports
• Administer subsidiary accounts and ledgers

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Let's begin with the business basics.

The Certificate I in Business is an entry-level course suitable for those seeking an introduction into business and office work. Participants will develop basic skills and knowledge to undertake a variety of administration tasks.

Participants will learn how to:

• Operate a personal computer and/or other digital device
• Create letters, flyers, posters and other business documents
• Use a photocopier, printers, scanners, binders, laminators and back up devices
• Communicate in a business environment
• Organise files and folders on their devices

The units that form the Certificate I in Business act as a foundation for many other qualifications in business, finance, tourism, community services, hospitality and aged care, among others.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Let's begin with the business basics.

Want a career in an office? Not sure if you have the skills?

The Certificate II in Business is a self-paced course designed for those without experience in the business sector, including school leavers and those looking for a new career or returning to the industry. Our lecturers can help you set up your email account and develop your word processing and Excel skills, as well as teaching you other essential knowledge to improve your chances of securing a career in business.

Successful completion of this course can lead into higher level qualifications and is also the foundation for many other industries.

Already employed in business? This course allows you to gain a nationally-accredited qualification while at work, recognising your capabilities while boosting your skills.

Make your mark in the corporate world.

The Certificate III in Business has been designed for those wishing to develop their existing office skills and gain a broad range of competencies necessary to fulfill the office roles traditionally found in the North West.

This qualification helps participants further enhance their existing Microsoft Office computer skills and add in finance options using MYOB; as well as other essential skills to improve their business acumen. Successful completion of this course could lead into a Certificate IV in Business, with the option of a dual qualification with Certificate IV in Bookkeeping, and is also a pathway to many other industries.

Ask us about our dual Business and Business Administration qualifications.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Make your mark in the corporate world.

The Certificate IV in Business reflects the role of individuals who use well-developed skills and a broad knowledge base in a wide variety of contexts. Participants will learn how to apply solutions to a defined range of unpredictable problems, and analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources.

Students will gain skills in:

• Managing customers needs and feedback
• Developing and promoting products and services
• Recruiting staff

With only one core unit, this qualification allows students a wide range of flexibility and options for student. There are multiple electives to select from, covering areas such as projects, presentations, customer service, marketing, record keeping, research, organising meetings, finance, risk management and documentation including Microsoft Excel.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Climb the corporate ladder with a Diploma of Business.

The Diploma of Business is suitable for individuals who aspire to business management roles or are already in a management role and would like their experience recognised and/or improved.

Participants will be able select elective units from a broad range of business options including advertising, e-business, human resource management, marketing, meetings, finance, project and risk management.

This qualification is also suited to the needs of individuals with little or no vocational experience, but who possess sound theoretical business skills and knowledge that they would like to further develop in order to create further educational and employment opportunities.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Broome Workshops

A selection of Saturday workshops are available under this qualification to enable students to fast track their studies outside of regular working hours. Workshops may be completed as part of the full qualification or simply as stand alone units for those looking to upskill.

Gain the organisational skills to thrive in an active marketplace.

The Certificate III in Business Administration is designed for those with some office experience, and is suitable for career changers, ladder climbers, and those returning to the industry. This course is for those wanting to develop their existing office skills and gain a broad range of competencies necessary to fulfill a variety of the office roles traditionally found in the North West.

This course helps participants to further enhance their existing Microsoft Office computer skills and add in finance options using MYOB; as well as other essential skills and knowledge to provide technical advice and support to a team.

Successful completion of this course can lead into a Certificate IV in Business Administration and is also a pathway to many other industries.

Gain the organisational skills to thrive in an active marketplace.

The Certificate IV in Business Administration further develops students' practical skills and knowledge of advanced office administrative procedures. Participants will learn how to manage office administration staff in a wide variety of administrative contexts.

Participants will learn how to:

• Produce complex documents
• Prepare financial reports
• Organise meetings
• Arrange complex travel schedules

There is a broad elective selection from which to choose specialty units or areas of interest.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Gain the organisational skills to thrive in an active marketplace.

The Diploma of Business Administration is suitable for individuals who aspire to business administration management roles or are already in a management role and would their experience recognised and/or improved.

This qualification provides students with the practical skills and knowledge to manage office administration staff. Participants will develop a sound theoretical knowledge base and use a range of specialised, technical or managerial competencies to plan, carry out and evaluate their own, and the work of their team.

Students will learn how to manage general administration processes such as payroll, administration systems and projects. Participants will also learn how to manage meetings and conferences. Participants can choose from a range of elective units, which cover planning and managing meetings and conferences, business documentation, customer service, projects, information and people performance.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Be business ready!

Almost every business has an office — and there's no shortage of job opportunities here! From administration work through to customer service, using business technology, dealing with accounts and finances through to digital marketing — you just need to be skills ready!

The Business Ready skill set will give you the skills and knowledge required to deliver all aspects of customer service including how to create a relationship with customers, identify their needs, deliver services or products and process customer feedback. You'll also learn how to use business technology and produce business documents, follow work health and safety (WHS) and emergency procedures and instructions, and use computer software and organise electronic information and data.

Shape the culture of an organisation with a career in human resources.

The Certificate IV in Human Resources provides participants with the skills to work in a range of support positions within human resources management.

In smaller companies, graduates may work across all human resources functional areas and in larger companies, graduates may be assigned responsibilities in units or business areas focused on discrete human resources functions, such as remuneration, workforce planning or human resources information systems.

Throughout this course, participants will learn how to:

• Review human resources functions
• Recruit, select and induct staff
• Support performance management processes
• Implement industrial relations procedures

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Shape the culture of an organisation with a career in human resources.

The Diploma of Human Resources Management is suitable for those who already have experience in the industry and are wishing to build on existing skills, particularly in the area of management.

Participants will develop a sound theoretical knowledge base in human resources management and demonstrate a range of managerial skills to ensure that human resources functions are effectively conducted in an organisation or business area.

Participants will learn how to manage:

• Human resource services
• Workforce planning
• Recruitment, selection and induction services
• Performance management systems
• Employee relations
• Work health and safety

Students will also be able to select elective units from a broad range of human resource options including the management of human resources management information systems, rehabilitation or return-to-work programs, or programs that promote personal effectiveness.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Get job ready!

The Job Ready Basics skill set is perfect if you feel that you need a little extra support and a confidence boost to get into a job. It focuses on health, wellbeing and personal development.

Follow this up with a visit to your local Jobs and Skills Centre, where you can get free advice and support to with your CV and writing job applications, and you'll be job ready!

Are you a natural leader?

The Certificate IV in Leadership and Management provides participants with the skills to undertake the role of first line of management in a wide range of organisational and industry contexts.

Participants may have existing qualifications and technical skills in any given vocation or profession, yet require skills or recognition in supervisory functions. At this level, frontline managers provide leadership and guidance to others and take responsibility for the effective functioning and performance of the team and its work outcomes.

Participants will learn:

• Management strategies
• Implement an operational plan
• How to show leadership in the workplace
• How to promote team effectiveness

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Are you a natural leader?

The Diploma of Leadership and Management provides participants with the practical skills and knowledge required to manage operational areas of an organisation, as well as review management practices, within their respective industry.

The course is focussed around emotional intelligence, leading and managing workplace relationships, workplace effectiveness, and managing an operational plan. Participants will have the opportunity to select from a range of elective units to best suit their organisation's needs. The units focus on customer service, financial management, information management, project management, risk management and human resource management.

Upon successful completion, participants will be able to use initiative and judgement in planning, organising, implementing and monitoring their own workload and the workload of others.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Develop skills in advanced analysis and automation tools using Microsoft Excel.

This course teaches participants how to successfully produce spread sheets for their business management and information analysis needs.

Topics covered:

• Lookup and reference functions
• Modifying Excel options
• Customised formatting of charts
• Labels and names in a workbook
• Data protection
• Summaries using subtotals
• Data linking and consolidation
• Pivot tables, group cells and outlines
• Using the solver tool
• Using macro recorder

Develop your skills in Microsoft Excel with this intermediate level course.

This course covers:

• Fill operations within a data series
• Moving the content of cells and ranges
• Formula techniques
• Logical functions
• Number formatting techniques
• Conditional formatting and borders
• Techniques to enhance charts
• Text formatting techniques

Develop your skills in Microsoft Excel

This course is designed to give participants a thorough understanding of Microsoft Excel 2013 and its uses.

 Participants will learn how to:

• Open, navigate and create new workbooks and worksheets
• Understand and work with ranges in a worksheet
• Understand, create and work with formulas and functions to perform calculations
• Understand and use formula cell referencing to create more complex formulas
• Use font formatting techniques to enhance the look of a worksheet
• Print workbook data
• Use a number of formatting features and create effective charts

Develop your skills in Microsoft Word 2013 with this intermediate level course. 

Participants will learn how to produce more intricate and varied documents. 
This course covers:

• Word options for easy access to files and information
• Enhancing text and paragraphs using formatting features
• Using tabs and numbered lists
• Creating enhanced tables
• Use timesaving features
• Styles and templates
• Headers and footers
• Working with themes
• Mail merges

In order to enrol in this skill set course, participants must have completed Microsoft Word Introduction, or have a basic understanding of it's functions.

Skill Set Pathways
 Microsoft Word Advanced

Learn how to master Microsoft Word with this introductory skill set.

This beginner level course has been designed to provide participants with a thorough understanding in the basics of Microsoft Word 2013.

This cover covers:

• Creating, formatting and printing simple Word documents
• Understanding screens, menus and dialogue boxes
• Working with text and paragraphs
• Page layout and design features
• Working with tables
• Printing documents
• Accessing additional help and services

In order to enrol in this short course, participants must have a general understanding of personal computers and the Windows operating system.

Establishing your own small business?

The Certificate IV in New Small Business covers the essential elements of legal and risk management, marketing, finances and small business planning. This qualification is suitable for those establishing a small business, requiring skills and a broad knowledge base to solve a range of unpredictable problems, and analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources.

Throughout this course, students can use their own business as an example and work through projects to assist them in developing their business plans and strategies. As busy business owners, participants can elect to study areas where they need additional knowledge.

There are multiple elective units covering areas such as finance, networking, managing business operations, team, projects, customer service and marketing research.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Learn how to operate a small business!

If you're currently operating or thinking about starting up a small business, or would like to get job ready for an administrative support position in a small business operation, this is the skill set for you! 

The Operating a Small Business skill set offers a fantastic range of skills and knowledge to get you job ready. You'll learn how to design and produce business documents and publications, digitally design and develop text-based documents,  develop spreadsheets through the use of both cloud-based and non-cloud based applications, identify financial requirements of a business including profit targets, cash flow projections and strategies to garner financial support, and understand workplace health and safety (WHS) legislation and its application to safe work practices. It even covers how to create and build a social networking presence using social media tools and applications. 

Further study pathways

This skill set provides a pathway to further study towards a selection of qualifications, some of which may be eligible for Lower fees, local skills half-price course fees. Please see the list below.

Please note: this course has both an online and a face-to-face component.

Karratha - 20 July - 7 December - DAY classes

Karratha - 22 July - 9 December - NIGHT classes

Manage small and large scale projects.

Gain the skills to manage projects in a variety of contexts and industry areas through a Diploma of Project Management.

Students study online material for each unit and are required to submit assessments in the form of knowledge questions and case studies to ensure a sound theoretical knowledge base. Participants will learn how to use a range of specialised, technical and managerial competencies to initiate, plan, execute and evaluate their own work and/or the work of others.

In this course students will learn to:

• Determine and manage all aspects of projects during the project life cycle
• Integrate all project management functions
• Build and maintain relationships with project stakeholders
• Manage personal work priorities and development
• Lead and ensure team effectiveness
• Facilitate continuous improvement
• Be prepared for projects of different complexity in any industry

The project management field is relevant to most industries, particularly mining and construction in the North West of Australia.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Manage small and large scale projects.

The Certificate IV in Project Management Practice provides participants with the skills and knowledge to manage all aspects of a project's integrative processes in a wide variety of contexts.

Participants will provide solutions to a defined range of unpredictable problems, and analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources.

Students will learn to apply project scope management techniques, such as:

• Time management
• Cost management
• Quality management
• Human resources
• Communications
• Risk management
• Contract and procurement procedures

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Do you have a keen eye for detail?

The Diploma of Quality Auditing provides participants with the skills to use a range of specialised, technical or managerial competencies to plan, carry out and evaluate their own work and/or the work of a team.

Participants will learn all aspects of undertaking a quality audit, from participating in, initiating, leading and managing the process.

Upon successful completion, participants may work as quality assurance managers, quality facilitators, quality and improvement consultants or service quality system support analysts.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Need to know about workplace health and safety?

This five-day course has been designed to provide elected work health and safety representatives with the skills to effectively represent their fellow employees in matters relating to occupational safety and health.

Participants will be guided through:

• Requirements of current occupational health, safety and welfare legislation within the workplace
• Workplace hazards and control methods
• Conducting effective workplace health and safety inspections
• Conducting effective investigations into workplace accidents or incidents
• The role of work health and safety representatives from management and union perspectives
• Issue resolution process

Need to refresh your existing workplace health and safety skills? Check out our Work Health and Safety Reps Refresher Course.

Need to brush up on your workplace health and safety knowledge? 

This two-day refresher course allows participants to revisit and update skills and knowledge gained during the Intro Training for Work Health and Safety Reps course. Participants will be updated on the essential information required to continue to fulfill their duties as their organisation’s elected work health and safety representative. 

Participants will be guided through:

• Recent legislation amendments and how to apply them in the workplace
• Conducting effective investigations into workplace accidents or incidents
• General refresh on the requirements of an elected work health and safety representative

Do you need to complete the full course? Check out our Work Health and Safety Representatives course.

Ensure the health and safety of your colleagues in the workplace.

The Certificate III in Work Health and Safety allows participants to take on a health and safety role within their workplace.

Participants will learn how to:

• Apply work health and safety legislation in the workplace
• Participate in hazard identification, risk assessment and control
• Identify, prevent and report potential workplace emergency situations
• Effectively communicate and consult with people regarding work health and safety issues

This qualification is suitable for people whose main job is not dedicate to work health and safety, but for those who take it on as a voluntary duty.

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Ensure the health and safety of your colleagues in the workplace.

The Certificate IV in Work Health and Safety is suitable for those who wish to work as an occupational health and safety officer within the workplace.

Participants will learn how to:

• Assist with workplace health and safety (WHS) compliance
• Implement and maintain WHS consultation and participation processes
• Contribute to hazard identification, risk assessment and control
• Implement and maintain WHS management systems
• Assist with responding to incidents
• Assist with claims management, rehabilitation and return-to-work programs

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.

Ensure the health and safety of your colleagues in the workplace.

The Diploma of Work Health and Safety is suitable for people who coordinate and maintain an Work Health and Safety (WHS) program in an organisation. It reflects the role of practitioners who apply a substantial knowledge base and well-developed skills in a wide variety of WHS contexts.

This qualification is delivered in an online environment only. Two streams are available to study through and both are online.

• Stream 1: General competency based training
• Stream 2: WorkSafe WA Safety Line Institute program

Participants who undertake this course will gain skills in:

• Effective management of WHS consultation and participation processes
• Systematic management of WHS risks
• Developing, implementing and maintaining a WHS management systems
• Managing rehabilitation and return to work programs
• Managing and monitoring workplace emergency procedures and equipment

This course is available at other campus locations upon request.