Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting)

• General information
• Entry requirements
• Course structure
• Further inquiries

General information

Course code: 1715 + Course abbreviation: BBusCom/AdvDip(Acc) + Course coordinator: Ms Wendy Webber

The Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting) double-award program is vocationally oriented and aims to equip graduates for employment in a wide range of occupations in industry and commerce, small business, professional accounting, insurance, banking and finance, teaching and in government and semi-government enterprises.

The Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting) offers students the opportunity to graduate with two separate awards, a Bachelor of Business and Commerce from Monash University and an Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting) from the Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE.

Entry requirements

Applicants must comply with the current Bachelor of Business and Commerce entry requirements.

Course structure

The Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting) is normally taken over four years of full-time study or eight years of part-time study. This course will require students to undertake a mix of Bachelor of Business and Commerce units and Advance Diploma of Business (Accounting) units.

• Year one: 25% university and 75% TAFE
• Year two: 25% university and 75% TAFE
• Year three: 50% university and 50% TAFE
• Year four: 100% university and 0% TAFE

Students will receive the following eight credits and exemptions on the basis of successfully completing the TAFE Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting):

• AFW1001 Introductory accounting A**
• AFW1002 Introductory accounting B
• AFW2020 Accounting for management information
• MKW1120 Marketing theory and practice**
• ETW1102 Business statistics**
• BTW1200 Business law**
• Two unspecified exemptions

To complete the requirements of the Bachelor of Business and Commerce/ Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting), students must complete the following:
(a) a total of 96 credit points towards the Bachelor of Business and Commerce
(b) the following core compulsory Bachelor of Business and Commerce units:

• ECW1101 Introductory microeconomics
• MGW1010 Managing people and organisations

(c) completion of a business major sequence of at least 48 points (eight units), including at least 12 points at each of second and third levels (one core unit from part (a) may form part of the 48 points requirement)
(d) a maximum of 10 units may be taken at first-year level
(e) at least six third-year-level units, of which at least four must be taken from units offered by the Faculty on the Gippsland campus
(f) at least four elective units must be outside the main field of study
(g) the Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE requirements for the Bachelor of Business and Commerce/Advanced Diploma of Business (Accounting).
Bachelor of Business and Commerce major studies are available in the following areas:

• accounting
• economics
• electronic commerce
• management
• marketing

** A core unit in the Bachelor of Business and commerce.

Further inquiries

Information on this course may be obtained by contacting the Faculty of Business and Economics, Gippsland campus, telephone (03) 9902 6380 or (03) 5122 6380. For more specific details on the course, contact a student adviser, telephone (03) 9902 6642 or (03) 5122 6642, or email enquiries.gippsland@buseco.monash.edu.au.

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