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Accounting employers test candidates on a real file, not on theory. This program mirrors that: you work one client file across four weeks, from raw transactions through reconciliation and compliance to statements and analysis, and you are marked on whether an accountant could review your work without redoing it.
Every week has its modules, a learning outcome, and an assessed submission with a deadline.
Week 1
Double entry as a discipline rather than a rule to memorise; the chart of accounts and why a bad one costs months; accrual versus cash and when each is used; business structures — sole trader, partnership, company, trust — and how each changes the books; the cycle from source document to trial balance; source document standards and record-keeping obligations.
By the end of this week you can
Process a month of transactions from source documents and produce a trial balance that balances for the right reasons.
Assessed this week
Manual transaction set to trial balance, marked on treatment as well as arithmetic. Quiz on business structures and accrual treatment. Due end of week 1.
Week 2
Setting up a file properly in Xero or MYOB; bank feeds, rules, and their failure modes; reconciling a feed with duplicates, missing receipts, and personal expenses in it; accounts payable and receivable and chasing debtors; payroll fundamentals — pay runs, PAYG withholding, superannuation guarantee, leave accrual; fixed assets and depreciation.
By the end of this week you can
Reconcile a deliberately messy bank feed and produce a written note explaining every adjustment you made.
Assessed this week
Reconciliation of a supplied client file with a schedule of adjustments and their justification. Due end of week 2.
Week 3
GST — taxable, GST-free, and input-taxed supplies, and the ones people get wrong; BAS preparation and lodgement mechanics; period-end adjustments, accruals, prepayments, and provisions; producing profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow; reading them for what is off; ethics, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and what you do when a client asks you to do something you should not.
By the end of this week you can
Prepare period-end statements and a lodgement-ready BAS from a live ledger, and identify the transaction that was coded wrong.
Assessed this week
Period-end pack — adjustments, statements, and BAS — plus a written ethics response to a client request. Due end of week 3.
Week 4
Excel for finance — lookups, pivots, scenario tables, and models that do not break; cash flow forecasting and why profitable businesses fail; variance analysis and commentary; explaining numbers to a manager who does not want a spreadsheet; automation and where cloud add-ons help; the accounting interview and the practical bookkeeping test most employers set.
By the end of this week you can
Present a client file and its numbers to someone who will make a decision, and answer the follow-up questions.
Assessed this week
Capstone: the complete client file from week one to statements and forecast, presented to a tutor panel, plus a timed practical bookkeeping test under interview conditions. Due end of week 4.
A Genutive Industry Ready Certificate for this pathway, showing the assessed components and your Merit Score, plus a published project showcase and a rebuilt resume.
Yes — all modules, live sessions, and assessments are online. Where a program has a supervised practical component, that part is arranged with a partner provider and is explained in the curriculum for the week it falls in.
It depends on the program, and the consultation is where that gets checked properly. Some pathways assume an existing qualification or trade background; others are entry points. We would rather turn you away than take a fee for a program you cannot complete.
You can enrol from anywhere. Employment, internship, and any supervised practical component depend on your work rights and location, which your advisor will go through with you before you commit.
Based on consultation
Confirmed in your consultation — see Pricing for why we do not publish a single figure.
Book a consultationSign in to EnrolCandidates who reach Career Ready become visible to employers in the Genutive network, with their Merit Score and capstone attached. Introductions depend on employer demand and on your right to work in that market. No placement is guaranteed.
Consultation-led — not instant enrolment
Programs listed here are delivered through partner providers and advisor-led consulting pathways. Certification outcomes depend on program completion and assessment requirements. Genutive does not guarantee employment or visa approval.
Four weeks, online, with the same rhythm every week so you can plan around it.
Two scheduled live sessions each week with the program tutor — one teaching session and one working session for questions, code or case review, and feedback. Sessions are recorded. Tutor time is deliberately limited: it is there for the parts that need a person, not to re-read the modules to you.
Each week releases a set of modules with readings, walkthroughs, and practice tasks. Expect eight to twelve hours of self-paced work a week on top of the live sessions.
A short knowledge check closes each week's modules. You see your result immediately, and you can retake it until you pass — but only the first attempt counts toward your Merit Matrix quiz score.
Every week has a submitted piece of work with a deadline. Tutors mark it and return written feedback. Late submissions are accepted and marked, but on-time submission is what the Merit Matrix rewards.
The final week is a capstone reviewed by a tutor panel. It becomes the centrepiece of your project showcase, which is visible on your Genutive profile.
You are placed in a small peer group for the four weeks. Some tasks are collaborative and peer-reviewed, and collaboration is a scored component of the Merit Matrix — because it is the part of the work employers complain is missing.
Your Merit Score is calculated from four components. It is not a participation award, and it follows you into the job marketplace where employers can see it.
Tutor-marked weekly tasks and the capstone. The largest component, because it is the closest thing to the actual job.
Attendance at the scheduled live sessions. Recordings help you catch up on content, but they do not earn attendance.
First-attempt results on the weekly knowledge checks.
Peer review you give and receive, and contribution to group tasks.
A Merit Score of 70 or above moves your enrolment to Career Ready. That is the point at which the employer network, internship consideration, and marketplace visibility open up. Below 70 you keep the certificate of completion and can be reassessed, but Career Ready is a threshold, not a formality.
Internship placement is offered to successful candidates only. "Successful" means you complete the program and reach the Career Ready threshold of 70 on the Merit Matrix. Even then, a placement depends on a partner or employer having a suitable position open at the time, in a location where you hold the right to work. Genutive does not guarantee an internship, and does not guarantee a job. What we do guarantee is that you will be visible to the employers in our network with real, assessed evidence attached to your name rather than a claim on a resume.
A Genutive Industry Ready Certificate naming the program, the assessed components, and your Merit Score. It records what you actually did, which is why we can put the score on it.
Your capstone is published to your Genutive profile with the tutor panel's review, so an employer can look at the work rather than take your word for it.
A resume rebuilt around what you can now evidence, plus interview practice for the specific roles the program targets.
Career Ready candidates become visible to employers in the Genutive network and can be matched to roles in the job marketplace.
Program fees are set during your consultation. They depend on the program, your starting point, and whether a partner provider is delivering a regulated component alongside it — so a single advertised price would be misleading more often than it was accurate. The consultation is where you find out the fee, and there is no obligation attached to it.
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