Bachelor of Business (Law)

• General information
• Advanced standing (credit for work done elsewhere)
• Professional accreditation
• 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 Brendan Sweeney

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.
On completion of this degree (depending on the choice of units), graduates may satisfy the tertiary education requirements for the CA program of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) and associate membership of CPA Australia. Note that 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.

Professional accreditation

Units offered by the Department of Business Law and Taxation in the BBus(Law) assist students to meet the educational requirements of CPA Australia; The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia; the Australasian Institute of Banking and Finance (Banking specialisation); the licence and membership requirements of ASIC, the ASX and the SFE; registration as an auditor or liquidator with ASIC; and registration as a tax agent. Candidates should check with the Department of Business Law and Taxation for advice on the appropriate units.

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:

• BTF2220 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 open electives must be taken outside the main field of study.

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