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Bachelor of Business

Course code: 3806 + Course abbreviation: BBus + Total credit points required: 144 + 3 years full-time, 6 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Caulfield)

Course description

The course is designed to provide graduates with high-level skills in a range of key business disciplines. It blends a conceptual theoretical framework with practical applications and covers basic discipline material through to more specialised strand requirements in the selected discipline. Graduates will be well equipped to seek employment in both private and public-sector enterprises.

Course structure

Areas of study

Students must complete a major specialisation in one of the following disciplines taught by the faculty: accounting, banking and finance, economics, econometrics, human resource management, law, management, marketing and risk management.

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

Course requirements

The degree requirements are:

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

(b) a major specialisation of eight units (48 points) in a discipline or field of study of the faculty, with at least two units (12 points) at each of second and third-year levels. The major must come from the approved list of majors.

(c) a total of 24 units (144 points) over a maximum of 10 years of study.

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

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

(f) at least four non-compulsory units (24 points) must be taken from units offered by the faculty but outside the main field of study.

(g) an option to include a maximum of six units (36 points) from disciplines taught by other faculties or from approved units at a campus other than Caulfield.

Units required for specified majors
Accounting
  • AFF1121 Accounting systems and procedures
  • AFF2391 Cost information for decision making
  • AFF2491 Company reporting
  • AFF2631 Financial management
  • AFF2851 Accounting information systems and financial modelling
  • AFF3431 Performance measurement and control
  • AFF3491 Advanced financial accounting theory and practice
  • AFF3631 Auditing and assurance
Banking and finance
  • AFF1300 Money and capital markets
  • AFF2401 Commercial banking and finance
  • AFF2631 Financial management
  • AFF2851 Accounting information systems and financial modelling
  • AFF3121 Investments and portfolio management
  • AFF3331 International banking and finance
  • AFF3651 Treasury management, or
  • AFX3871 International study program in banking and finance
  • AFF3841 Lending decisions
Economics
  • ECF1200 Macroeconomics
  • Students must complete seven units (42 points) from the units listed below:
  • ECF2331 Monetary theory and policy
  • ECF2450 Sports economics
  • ECF2550/3550 Business in Asia
  • ECF2721 Trade finance and foreign exchange
  • ECF2810 Globalisation and economic systems
  • ECF3120 Consumer economics
  • ECF3731 Managerial economics
  • ECF3900 Business economics
  • ETX 2121 Data analysis in business
Econometrics

Students must complete one unit (6 points) from:

  • ETX2111 Business data modelling, or
  • ETX2121 Data analysis in business

and seven units (42 points) selected from the units listed below:

  • ETF2480 Business modelling methods
  • ETF2700 Mathematics for business
  • ETX2011 Quantitative methods for risk analysis
  • ETF3200 Quantitative business analysis
  • ETX3231 Business forecasting
  • ETF3300 Quantitative methods for financial markets
  • ETF3480 Optimisation for managers
  • ETF3500 Survey data analysis
  • ECF2721 Trade finance and foreign exchange
Human resource management
  • MGF1100/2100 Managerial communication
  • MGF2341 Managing employee relations
  • MGF2661 Human resource management
  • MGF3401 Strategic management
  • MGF3621 Organisational change
  • MGF3681 International management
  • MGF3881 Current issues in human resource management
  • MGX3441 Human resource strategy
Law

Students must complete eight units (48 points) from:

  • BTF2223 Corporate crime
  • BTF2601 Banking law
  • BTF2801 Lending law
  • BTF2991 Employment law
  • BTF3091 Stock exchange and derivatives law
  • BTF3100 Environmental law for business
  • BTF3201 International trade law
  • BTF3491 International taxation
  • BTF3900 Research project in business law and taxation
  • BTF3951 Business taxation
  • BTF3181 Marketing law
  • BTF3641 Information technology law
  • BTF2250 Comparative Asian taxation
  • BTF2300 Health law
  • BTF3131 Capital gains tax
  • BTF3191 Singapore income taxation
  • BTF3430 Electronic business taxation
  • BTF3461 Superannuation and retirement benefits
Management
Marketing
Risk management

Professional recognition

This degree with relevant units is recognised by the following legal entities:

  • Australian Institute of Management
  • Australian Marketing Institute
  • Banking, Finance and Securities Industries
  • CPA Australia
  • Institute of Securities Finance and Banking
  • Risk Management Institution of Australasia
  • Tax Agents’ Board
  • The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia

It is important to note that professional recognition may be dependent upon the correct choice of units. For further details, refer to 'Professional recognition' earlier in this section of the handbook.

Contact details

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 director

Mr David Watson

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