Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Business (Accounting)

Course code: 0550 + Course abbreviation: BA/BBus(Acc) + Total credit points required: 204 + 4.25 years full-time, 8 years part-time + Managing faculty: Arts

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Course description

This double degree course allows students to qualify with both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Accounting) degrees. The Bachelor of Arts is a general, flexible degree which allows students to match academic interests with career aspirations to create a personalised course progression. Studying humanities will develop general knowledge and specific intellectual skills relating to human thought and relations, such as the way we communicate or how the past has affected the present. Social science analyses and explains societies and the relationships of individuals within those societies.

The Bachelor of Business (Accounting) component of this double degree is designed to enable graduates to pursue careers in professional accounting and a wide range of business fields. The Business component blends a conceptual framework with practical applications and covers basic discipline material through to more specialised accounting strand requirements.

Course objectives

This course provides specialist skills in accounting and general skills in business management, combined with the broad teaching and learning objectives of the Bachelor of Arts degree. Graduates will be well equipped to seek employment in both private and public sector enterprises.

Course structure

Students must complete 96 points in the Bachelor of Arts component and 108 points in the Bachelor of Business (Accounting) component.

Areas of study

For information on arts majors and minors, refer to the ‘Areas of study’ section on the Arts faculty website at www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/study_areas/.

Course requirements

Arts component

(a) an arts discipline major (48 points)

(b) an arts discipline minor (24 points)

(d) a further 12 points in arts units.

Business component

(a) Inner core – completion of six compulsory units (36 points):

AFF1110 Accounting for financial decision making
BTF1010 Commercial law
ECF1100 Microeconomics*
ETX1100 Business statistics
MGF1010 Managing people and organisations
MKF1120 Marketing theory and practices

(b) Outer core – completion of six outer core units (36 points), including the two compulsory units (12 points) listed below and a further four units (24 points) from the remaining units listed:

AFF2631 Financial management (compulsory)
AFF2851 Accounting information systems and financial modelling (compulsory)
BTF2220 Corporations law and trust
BTF3931 Taxation law*
ECF1200 Macroeconomics*
ETX2121 Data analysis in business
MGF2351 International business
MGF3401 Strategic management
MKF2111 Buyer behaviour
MKX1500 Retail management principles

* Required for accreditation by professional bodies.

AFF1121 Accounting systems and procedures
AFF2391 Cost information for decision making
AFF2491 Company reporting
AFF3431 Performance management and control
AFF3491 Advanced financial accounting theory and practice
AFF3631 Auditing and assurance

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

(e) A minimum of four third-year-level units.

The degree requires the equivalent of four-and-a-quarter years of full-time study, but can be completed in four years by accelerating with an overload of 12 points.

Note that students have a maximum of 10 years to complete this course.

Professional recognition

This program is accredited with CPA Australia and with The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA). Provided students complete all units specified by these bodies, they will qualify for associate membership of CPA Australia and entry to the CA Program of the ICAA.

Contact details

www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/contact_us/

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