My name is Natalie Evans I recently completed a Master of Professional Accounting at RMIT University through Open Universities Australia.
I've been married for over 30 years and I live with my husband and my two teenage
children and I needed to do some further study in order to start up my own
business to be a tax agent so I went to OUA and did some courses through there
and that filled in the gap is for me.
I needed to do some study in commercial law and Taxation law that enabled me to
be registered and then I was able to start my own business. I felt as though
the flexibility that Open Universities Australia offered was really the only way I was
going to be able to get this Master's degree done, and that's because I work, I
have a family and I live a long way from the city, so studying flexibly was the only
way that I was really gonna want to do this.
I did find that there was a really supportive group of you know students around me and we often communicate, you know, online or through Skype or whatsapp or email and so yeah, even though I was on my own I never felt particularly isolated but it was the perfect way for me to do this degree. You know you can be shown what to do but you don't necessarily understand why are you doing it that way and so by studying the theory, it's like oh that's why we do it like that, and that's what studying the Master of Professional Accounting enabled me to do and it certainly gave me more confidence.
I honestly have to say that right now I'm where I want to Be. I've got a successful business, I really enjoy what I do and the study that I've done has enabled me to get where I've got to. I'm not answerable to anybody else other than my clients and I love my life and I love what I do.