Job Restart Program
For people with overseas qualifications or experience who are ready to get back into accounting in Australia. Both streams, every core module and all four Platinum AI Accountant modules, so you understand the work and can supervise AI doing it.
Who it's for
- Overseas qualified accountants working outside the field
- People returning to accounting after a career break
- Career changers who want both corporate and public practice experience
- Anyone who wants AI skills on top of solid accounting
Roles it prepares you for
- Graduate or Assistant Accountant
- Financial or Management Accountant
- Tax Accountant
- Bookkeeper (advanced)
- Junior Auditor
Entry requirement: basic accounting knowledge or prior experience.
The Platinum AI Accountant modules
Each module shows the traditional way first, then the AI way, so you understand the work and can supervise the AI doing it.
Corporate accounting
Invoice processing, bank and credit card reconciliations, journals, month end, payroll and STP, and BAS.
The accounting firm
Individual, partnership, trust, company and SMSF returns, prepared and reviewed with AI.
Accounting roles in the AI era
What each role now involves, and the skills that make you the person employers want.
The AI solopreneur
Why the human still matters, and how products, marketing, delivery and registration work for an AI powered practice.
Both streams, every core module
Commercial sector
- Accounts payable and accounts receivable
- Credit card reconciliation
- Bank reconciliation
- Inventory management
- Prepayments
- Fixed asset register
- Accruals
- Cost centre analysis
- Business Activity Statement (BAS)
- Payroll and Single Touch Payroll (STP)
Public practice sector
- Tax entities and planning
- Individual tax return and case study
- Partnership tax return and case study
- Trust tax return and case study
- Company tax return
- Company tax return case study and SMSF introduction
- Interview coaching and career preparation
AI fundamentals
- Using ChatGPT for resumes and cover letters
- Securing job opportunities on LinkedIn with AI
- Using AI tools to improve bookkeeping quality
- Using AI tools for business analysis
- Using AI tools to plan and test business ideas
Hands on projects, AI enhanced
Internal accounts
AP, AR, petty cash and reconciliations with AI matching.
General ledger
Fixed assets, BAS and cost centre dashboards.
Year end accounts and tax
AI tools to extract and check tax data.
Year end closing
AI assisted profit and loss analysis.
Tax returns
Individual, sole trader, trust, partnership and company.
What we offer
- CPA qualified trainers
- Xero and Hubdoc certified supervisors
- Xero, MYOB and Xero Tax access for practice
- Corporate month end procedures
- Full cycle case studies from engagement to lodgement
- Online internship
What you gain
- Certificate of completion and Xero certificate
- Professional reference letter and phone reference check
- Resume makeover, interview coaching and job support
- 1 on 1 career guidance and a job hunting action plan
- Internal positions for standout candidates
- CPD hours
Get back into accounting, AI ready
Book a free consultation and we'll map your experience to the right starting point.