Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry/Bachelor of Accounting combined degrees

This combined degree allows students to complete qualifications in Laws - Legal Practice Entry and Accounting with a combined study plan to reduce the overall duration of the degree. The Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry aims to provide students with a sound training in law and legal skills and emphasise the acquisition on foundation legal skills through the integration of skills training with the teaching of substantive subjects. The Bachelor of Accounting has a particular focus on application of accounting knowledge, competencies and capabilities to diverse and global commercial business/organisational contexts.

Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry

The Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry instils in students a desire for just outcomes, a broad outlook on law and a commitment to ethical conduct and equips students to develop an innovation and entrepreneurial mindset to respond to 21st century opportunities.

Flinders Law students will be able to demonstrate an extensive and well-founded knowledge of key areas of current Australian law, including new and developing areas with the ability to find, interpret, understand and critique Australian law within its historical and comparative contexts, using effective learning strategies and appropriate methods, including both recent and traditional technologies.

Students will have the ability to use their knowledge to plan, analyse and think critically, logically and creatively, including by reflecting upon and evaluating facts, ideas, options and resolutions to disputes and debates, and considering client instructions and the requirements of procedural and jurisdictional contexts and an awareness of the philosophy and the social and global contexts of law, and willingness to uphold their community responsibility to advocate for justice and to act with integrity in all matters in their professional work and personal lives.

Practical Experience in Law

Flinders Law prepares you to become a lawyer and a leader - receive more support, more placements, and more advanced skills. Students will gain cutting-edge practical experience and build networks with industry years before they graduate. Students participate in Work Integrated Learning as part of this degree. Students will be required to undertake a semester-long placement for one day a week in either the Flinders Legal Centre, Digital Law Lab or with an industry partner.

Successful completion of the Bachelor of Laws - Legal Practice Entry provides direct entry to the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, delivered in collaboration with Leo Cussen in the Adelaide CBD. Successful completion of the Bachelor of Laws and Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice satisfies the academic and practical requirements underpinning eligibility to be admitted as a barrister and solicitor in any state or territory of Australia

Bachelor of Accounting

Accounting is a powerful tool to ensure stability and accountability for people and businesses across the globe. Regardless of size, structure or purpose, businesses are now responsible for more - rightfully accountable for everything from operational integrity, ethical spending, workforce wellbeing and their impact on the environment. Accredited by CPA Australia and the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, this degree provides a strong foundation in accounting principles and processes, management accounting, business law, economics, finance, computer information systems, auditing, and taxation law, international accounting developments and standards, and current issues in financial reporting.

Extensive opportunities exist for Flinders Accounting graduates across business, government and not for profit sectors, both in Australia and internationally. They will develop a strong multidisciplinary focus, giving them a competitive edge in the marketplace. Students will learn about new technologies and be prepared for the ever-changing future of the industry by exploring a degree focused on sustainability, principled practices and Indigenous impact. They can learn how to analyse, interpret and communicate financial information by applying accounting principles, and develop skills in accounting principles, financial accounting processes, financial management and corporations law.

Students will develop the expertise and competencies to adapt and thrive in the fast paced financial, consulting and accounting sectors, and learn to think beyond the traditional definition of accounting: focusing on sustainability, principled practices, new technologies, Indigenous impact, and the ever-changing future of the industry.

Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice

Successful applicants to this degree are also issued a conditional offer to the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, subject to meeting progression requirements. Students who would like to become eligible to apply to the Supreme Court for admission to practise as a barrister and solicitor in South Australia must also complete the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice upon completion of their Bachelor degree.

The Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice is a postgraduate award, and is one year in length of full-time study, or the equivalent part-time. Graduates will have the knowledge and skills to apply theoretical understanding of the law to practical situations, and practice as a legal practitioner.

Students who do not want to complete the Legal Practice component can complete the Bachelor degree without obligation to continue to the Graduate Diploma.