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Bachelor of Business (Accounting) (Honours)

Course code: 0510 + Course abbreviation: BBus(Acc)(Hons) + Total credit points required: 48 + 1 year full-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Course description

The honours degree in accounting provides students with the opportunity to undertake a further one year’s education in accounting and finance and to provide a framework for more in-depth study of areas covered in the ordinary three-year Bachelor of Business degree. The fourth year comprises eight semester units which include the completion of a research project. The extra material covered in fourth year allows honours students to tackle practical problems from a broader intellectual perspective. The honours degree allows students to complete a research report, a major piece of investigation and writing which has no counterpart in the pass degrees. Increasingly, major employers of accounting graduates are supporting honours programs and encouraging eligible students to tackle the fourth year.

Entry requirements

A bachelors degree consisting of an accounting major from an approved tertiary institution. Applicants need to have attained a minimum average grade of 65% in the relevant disciplines in the final two years of undergraduate studies for consideration.

Course structure

Areas of study

The degree provides more in-depth study in accounting. All studies are confined to the accounting discipline.

Course requirements

The degree requirements are:

(a) Completion of three compulsory units (24 points):

• AFF4050 Research project (12 points)
• AFF4060 Research methods I (6 points)
• AFF4061 Research methods II (6 points)

(b) Completion of four units (24 points) from the units listed below:

• AFF4010 Advanced financial accounting, or
  AFC4120 Capital markets and other empirical financial accounting research
• AFF4013 Financial reporting and statement analysis, or
  AFC4170 Analysis of financial statements
• AFF4020 Advanced management accounting, or
  AFC4130 Management accounting
• AFF4021 Advanced topics in finance, or
  AFF4030 Advanced finance
• AFF4040 Advanced investments
• AFC4160 Issues in auditing and assurance

Contact details

Inquiries: telephone +61 3 9902 6011, fax +61 3 9903 2955, email enquiries.caulfield@buseco.monash.edu.au, or visit www.buseco.monash.edu.au.

Course coordinator

Mr Roger Love

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