1999 Business and Economics Handbook - Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Business Systems

Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Business Systems - BCom/BBusSys

General
Professional accreditation

General

Course code: 1320
The following should be read in conjunction with the statement on the Bachelor of Commerce and the Bachelor of Business Systems in the Faculty of Information Technology handbook.
The double degree course of Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Business Systems requires a minimum of four years full-time study, or five years for a degree with honours, or the equivalent in part-time study. Entry to this combination is based on the entry requirements for the Bachelor of Commerce degree. Students must complete subjects to the value of a minimum of 192 credit points over the length of the course, of which ninety-six to 108 points should come from subjects offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics (Clayton). The course structure is shown in chart 10 in the section 'Charts of degree structures'.
Whilst there is a degree of flexibility in the course structure, students must normally complete the six compulsory first-year commerce subjects and the five compulsory first-year business systems subjects in the first two years of the course. The exception to this arrangement, however, is for those students wishing to undertake a management studies specialisation in their degree. In this case, students may delay the completion of one of the first-year compulsory commerce subject sequences to a later year, in order to complete the subjects MGC1020 and MGC1030 in first year. Management studies would then become the category A specialisation for such students and the remaining first-year compulsory subjects would be counted as supporting subjects (category B) in a later year.

Professional accreditation

This degree is recognised by both the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia as meeting academic requirements for membership. This is also true for senior associate membership of the Australian Institute of Banking and Finance and for membership of the Australian Computer Society. For all professional bodies membership is dependent upon the correct choice of subjects by students.