Bachelor of Business (Law)

• General information
• Advanced standing (credit for work done elsewhere)
• Course structure
  • Inner core
  • Outer core
  • Strand
    • Business law strand
    • Taxation strand
  • Electives

General information

Course code: 3154 + Course abbreviation: BBus(Law) + Course coordinator: Mr Wayne Gumley
This course is designed to provide a degree structure with a major sequence of units in the areas of business law and/or taxation. The course recognises the fundamental importance of business law and taxation in a rapidly changing commercial world, and seeks to provide graduates with extended skills in these areas. Graduates will gain skills in handling the wide range of complex legal and taxation issues that are commonly faced in many areas of business management and government agencies.
The course provides a strong grounding in core business areas such as accounting, economics, finance, management, marketing, and information technology. It also provides compulsory studies in commercial law, corporations law and taxation law plus a very wide range of more specific business law and taxation electives which students can use to extend their knowledge in particular areas of interest.
The course is offered on a full-time or part-time basis by the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Caulfield campus. It is appropriate for school leavers who have demonstrated a high level of academic ability and also for persons with experience in the business or government sectors who wish to enhance their career prospects. Accreditation of this course with the professional accounting bodies is pending.
Note: The Bachelor of Business (Law) does not provide the basis for admission to practice as a barrister or solicitor.

Advanced standing (credit for work done elsewhere)

Credit transfers for the BBus(Law) have been standardised in accordance with part one, section five of the degree regulations. In addition, credit transfers will normally be given to students who have passed units in the degree of the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at an approved university.

Course structure

Inner core

The following six units are compulsory:

• AFF1110 Accounting for financial decision making
• BTF1010 Commercial law
• ECF1100/ECF2100 Microeconomics
• ETX1100 Business statistics
• MGF1010 Managing people and organisations
• MKF1120 Marketing theory and practice

Outer core

In addition to the two compulsory units below, students must select four from the following list:

• BTF1151 Corporations law and trusts (compulsory)
• BTF2931/BTF3931 Taxation law (compulsory)
• AFF2051 Financial modelling
• AFF2631 Financial management
• ECF1200/ECF2200 Macroeconomics
• ETX2121 Data analysis in business
• MGF2661 Human resource management
• MGF3401 Strategic management
• MKF2111 Buyer behaviour
• MKF3141 Issues in competitive advantage

Strand

Students can choose any six units from the following Business law and/or taxation strand:

Business law strand

• BTF2181 Marketing law
• BTF2223 Corporate crime
• BTF2300 Health law
• BTF2601 Banking law
• BTF2801 Lending law
• BTF2991 Employment law
• BTF3091 Stock exchange and derivatives law
• BTF3100 Environmental law for business
• BTF3201 International trade law
• BTF3641 Information technology law

Taxation strand

• BTF2250 Comparative Asian taxation
• BTF3131 Capital gains tax
• BTF3191 Singapore income taxation
• BTF3430 Electronic business taxation
• BTF3461 Superannuation and retirement benefits
• BTF3491 International taxation
• BTF3951 Business taxation

Electives

In addition to the above 18 units in the 144-point program, students must choose six electives from any discipline within any faculty, subject to approval from other faculties.
The new course structure introduces greater flexibility and the following additional regulations must be observed:

• The number of first-year-level units must not exceed 10 (60 points).
• A minimum of six third-year-level units (36 points) must be completed of which at least four must be offered by the faculty on the campuses delivering the program.
• At least two (12 points) of the electives must be taken outside the main field of study.

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