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Bachelor of Business and Commerce

Course code: 2224 + Course abbreviation: BBusCom + Total credit points required: 144 + 3 years full-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (South Africa)

Course description

The Bachelor of Business and Commerce provides an international degree in business and commerce. It is designed to provide maximum flexibility and to allow depth and breadth in the study of the major business and commerce discipline areas. Its structure provides the capacity to tailor applications and focus in different contexts and different environments while ensuring knowledge of the theory, principles and core elements in the relevant discipline areas.

Course structure

Areas of study

Students must complete a major in one of the following disciplines taught by the faculty: accounting, management or marketing. All units taken as part of the major are limited to units taught by departments of the faculty on the campus delivering this program.

Other studies may be drawn from any of the disciplines taught on the South Africa campus by the Faculty of Business and Economics. They can also, in some cases, form a second major in a business discipline.

Up to six open electives may also be taken from other campuses or other Monash faculties.

Course requirements

The degree requirements are:

(a) Completion of six compulsory common core units (36 points):

AFW1001 Introductory accounting A
BTW1201 South African business law 1
ECW1101 Introductory microeconomics
ETW1102 Business statistics
MGW1010 Managing people and organisations
MKW1120 Marketing theory and practice

(b) Completion of a major of at least eight units (48 points) in a discipline from the faculty with at least two units (12 points) at each of second and third-year-levels.

(d) A maximum of 10 first-year-level units (60 points).

(e) A minimum of six units (36 points) at third-year level, of which at least four (24 points) must be from those offered by the faculty on the campus delivering this program.

(f) An option to include a maximum of six units (36 points) in disciplines taught by other faculties or from units offered on campuses other than the campus delivering this program.

(g) At least four non-compulsory units (24 points) must be outside the main field of study.

Units required for specified majors

Accounting

AFW1001 Introductory accounting A (core)
AFW1002 Introductory accounting B
AFW2020 Cost information for decision making
AFW2042 South African corporate reporting 1
AFW3004 South African financial accounting issues
AFW3005 Corporate finance
AFW3006 Group statements
AFW3007 Advanced accounting for management information

Graduates of the accounting major will be equipped to pursue careers in professional accounting and related areas. Students who wish to seek membership of the South African professional body, The South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA), are advised to include in their enrolment, in addition to all units listed in the accounting major, the following units (graduates wishing to seek membership of the (SAICA) will be required to complete a Certificate in the Theory of Accountancy (CTA) or a fourth-year equivalent at a SAICA-accredited university, until such time as the Monash South Africa fourth year has been SAICA accredited. This is currently pending):

AFW2041 South African auditing A
AFW3941 South African auditing B
AFW3942 South African auditing C
BTW1201 South African A business law 1 (core)
BTW2121 South African taxation of individuals
BTW2122 South African taxation of businesses
BTW2201 South African business law 2
BTW3301 South African business law 3
BTW3300 South African administration of deceased and insolvent estates*
BUS1010 Introductory computing for business applications
BUS1021 Business information systems
ECW1102 Introductory macroeconomics

* Unit under review.

Management

MGW1010 Managing people and organisations (core)
MGW1100 Managerial communication
MGW2230 Organisational behaviour
MGW2430 Human resource management
MGW3351 International business
MGW3130 Organisational change and development
MGW3401 Strategic management
MGW3681 International management

Marketing

MKW1120 Marketing theory and practice (core)
MKW2402 Consumer behaviour
MKW2420 Marketing research methods
MKW2460 Integrated marketing communication
MKW3121 Marketing planning and implementation
MKW3440 Marketing strategy
MKW3444 International marketing

Plus one additional unit chosen from the elective units offered by the Department of Marketing from the following:

MKW2431 Business marketing
MKW3881 Electronic marketing

Units required for a sub-major

Optional specialisation sequences have been developed to provide students with guidance towards vocational professional outcomes. Sub-majors include:

Business law and taxation

BTW2121 South African taxation of individuals
BTW2122 South African taxation of businesses
BTW2201 South African business law 2
BTW3301 South African business law 3
BTW3300 South African administration of deceased and insolvent estates

Business systems

BUS1010 Introductory computing
BUS1021 Business information systems

Elective units offered by the faculty

ECW1102 Introductory microeconomics
ECW2111 Business data modelling

Professional recognition

Students who wish to obtain professional recognition should refer to 'Professional 'recognition' in the 'Faculty information' section of the Faculty of Business and Economics entry.

Contact details

Inquiries: telephone + 27 11 950 4009, fax + 27 11 950 4004 or email inquiries@monash.ac.za.

Course coordinator

Professor Brian Brooks

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