Business & Commerce

Stage 2 Units (Core) – 25 Credit Points Each

Introduction to Accounting

This unit delivers the following topics:

• Introduction to business structures and start-up options.
• Development of a strategic plan.
• Cost volume profit analysis and assessment of special orders.
• Appraisal of capital investments using capital budgeting.
• Preparation of cash budgets and loan schedules.
• Preparation and interpretation of financial statements.
• Accounting for basic transactions, (GST) and end-of-period adjustments.
• Investigating the methods and motivations for earnings management.

Introduction to Business Information Systems

This unit provides an overview of Business Information Systems (BIS) and Business Information Technology (BIT), different types of BIS and BIT and their role in organisations and contribution to organisational success. Students will learn how use technology appropriately to develop BIS that effectively support, enable and enhance business and organisational processes. Proves an introduction to the different activities and tools used to develop, maintain and operate effective BIS.

Introductory Economics

An introduction to economic concepts and principles, supply and demand analysis, elasticity, economic efficiency, market failure and macroeconomics. This unit also covers the areas of unemployment and inflation, model of aggregate supply and demand and global markets.

Discovering Marketing

Introducing the topic of marketing, it’s role and importance in any type of organisation. Topics include the marketing concept, marketing environment, marketing information systems, market segmentation, identification of target markets, buyer behaviour, product, place, price and promotion decisions, and the special aspects of marketing. 

Business Law

An introduction to law with a business focus. Students examine the nature and sources of law in Australia. The key aspects of civil law are explored in relation to business, with particular emphasis on contract law.

Fundamentals of Management

This unit outlines management theory and practice. After examining the current landscape of management practice, students analyse the major functions of management and some of the key areas of management practice. This unit also introduces the key skills required of contemporary managers. Specifically, students are required to prepare solutions to management problems and develop team-working skills.

Stage 2 Units (Specific) – 25 Credit Points Each

Consumer Behaviour

Introducing the role of consumer behaviour and how it is shaped by the social and cultural environment and the psychological foundations. This unit focusses on the decision processes in consumption behaviour in different buying situations.

Financial Accounting

Explore financial accounting issues relating to the objective of general purpose financial reporting; the definition; recognition and measurement of financial statement elements; and accounting for business transactions. Success in this unit requires students develop both a theoretical and practical understanding.

Management Accounting

Managerial accounting techniques integrated with statistical methods applied to costing models, profit planning and decision useful information.

Macroeconomic Principles

Classical Macroeconomics: Output, employment, money, prices and interest rates, macroeconomic policy, fiscal policy, monetary policy and policies for intermediate-run growth.
The Keynesian System: Aggregate demand, money, interest rate, income and aggregate supply.
Economic Fluctuations: IS-LM models.
Open Economy Macroeconomics: Exchange rate and the international monetary system, monetary and fiscal policy in the open economy.
Long-run Economic Growth: The neo-classical growth models and recent developments in the theory of economic growth.

Public Relations Foundations

An introduction to the principles, practice, history and evolution of public relations. Learn the importance of ethical practice, how to identify publics, the need for public relations programs and how to plan, manage and evaluate their effectiveness.

Web Communications

This unit will look at the ways in which the internet has changed communication and how this affects individuals, groups, businesses and organisations. Online communication has presented a myriad of opportunities for collaboration with others and it has become common practice to share knowledge and skills via the online space. It is essential that we understand how people communicate and collaborate online and why this is important. This unit will enable you to become an effective and sophisticated internet user, able to deploy its techniques, technologies and underlying concepts for online communication and collaboration.