Bachelor of Commerce

• General information
• Professional accreditation
• Course structure

General information

Course code: 0179 + Course abbreviation: BCom + The following describes the course structure introduced in 2000 + For details of the old structure, refer to the 2000 university handbook
The Bachelor of Commerce degree provides coherent sequences of units in the areas of accounting, finance, economics, business law and taxation, econometrics and business statistics, management and marketing. An introduction to all of these areas is compulsory in the first year of the degree. For details of the units available in each area, see the relevant departmental listings. There are also opportunities for combinations with economic history and with units offered outside the faculty, including languages, psychology, mathematics, computing, and any of the sciences, social sciences or humanities.

Professional accreditation

This degree is recognised by both CPA Australia and The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia as meeting academic requirements for membership. This is also true for senior associate membership of the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance. Graduates of this course are recognised for membership of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) and the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI). For all professional bodies, membership is dependent upon the correct choice of units by students.

Course structure

All first, second and third-year units offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics have a value of six points. Full-time students are expected to progress at the rate of eight units or 48 points per year. First-year students normally may not take a second-year unit until at least four first-year units have been completed successfully. It should be noted that units in the later years of the course have prerequisites and corequisites. In addition, students are expected to take units in a yearly sequence even if there are no prerequisite units specified. Specialisations are available in accounting, business law and taxation, econometrics and business statistics, economics, management, and marketing.
Students are required to complete the following compulsory units:

• AFC1021/AFC1022 (Accounting)
• AFC1100/AFC2100 or AFC2140 (Finance)
• BTC1110/BTC2110 (Business law)
• ECC1000 and ECC1100/ECC2100 (Economics)
• ETC1000 and ETC1010/ETC2010 (Econometrics and business statistics)
• MGC1010 and MGC1020/MGC2020 (Management)
• MKC1200/MKC2200 (Marketing)

While students have a choice of compulsory finance units, it is strongly advised that those attempting AFC2140 without having completed AFC1000/AFC2100, or its equivalent, may be seriously disadvantaged. Students wishing to take first-year units other than those on the above list are able to undertake the second-year versions of the appropriate number of compulsory units. This allows students to complete substantial work in related fields such as languages, computing, psychology, or mathematics.
The following are requirements of the course:

• satisfactory completion of 24 units, or units to the value of a total of 144 points, over three full-time years or a maximum of 10 years of study
• a maximum of 10 first-year-level units (60 points)
• a minimum of six third-year-level units (36 points) of which at least four must be from those offered in the faculty at the campus delivering this program
• completion of a major in a discipline or field of study of the faculty. This requires students to complete 48 points of study in a single discipline or field of study with at least 12 points at each of second and third-year level (disciplines are defined by department prefixes and fields of study are those sets of related units that may be defined in the catalogue of courses and units)
• at least four non-compulsory units (24 points) outside the main field of study
• an option to include units to a maximum value of 36 points from disciplines outside the faculty or from an approved list of faculty units offered on campuses other than Clayton.

Students must have their program of study approved by the course coordinator or the course coordinator's nominee prior to commencement of the relevant year.

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