Diploma of Business

The relationship between business and the wider community continues to change in new and significant ways. This unit allows students to understand the purpose and nature of business activity and the factors that influence and constrain business behaviour and decisions, as well as the commonalities and differences across various regions and countries.

This unit aims to show students how quantitative analysis facilitates personal and corporate financial decisions by focusing on financial mathematics to value debt and equity securities. The unit introduces techniques used to collect, calculate, and interpret information used as the basis for pricing mortgage loans, evaluating superannuation performance and quantifying and selecting investment alternatives.

This unit o ers an introduction to the discipline of management and governance. Workshops emphasise generic skill development for report research, writing, group work and techniques that improve individual skill acquisition. Topics include business ethics, governance, the contemporary workplace and cross-cultural management.

This unit provides a valuable foundation of how economies operate, how businesses and individuals use economics in their decision making, and why governments implement certain economic policies. These include policies on employment, inflation, the environment, interest rates and the welfare of society. The unit also covers international issues including international trade, foreign debt and the global economy.

This unit provides an introduction and broad overview of fundamental financial and management accounting concepts. The unit is suitable for anyone undertaking a commerce degree as it introduces students to concepts and practices necessary for a basic understanding of business reports. The topics addressed in financial accounting include the accounting equation, cash vs accrual accounting, Australian Accounting Standards, and financial statement analysis.

This unit provides a range of generic learning skills specifically for Bachelor of Business students. It aims to equip students with competency in communication skills in literacy, numeracy, and information technology in the context of Business Studies, including summarising academic papers, essay writing, cogent argumentation, referencing and information evaluation.

This unit aims to produce a critical understanding of global affairs. This unit’s major assumption is that what we see as comprising ‘international politics’ is not determined exclusively by what is out there, but also by something in our own heads. It examines various theoretical approaches and explores such issues as globalisation, development, environmentalism, and the global economy.

This unit outlines the structure of the tourism system and the multiplicity of sectors and industries within those systems, with a focus on events. Students are introduced to models of tourism, the global and regional dimensions of tourism and event developments. Tourism for sustainable development, policy and planning for tourism and events is also an important topic covered.

This unit provides an appreciation of how marketing creates value for business, society and customers. As the foundational Marketing unit, it introduces students to the marketing organisation and planning process, marketing research and information gathering methods and some of the analysis tools marketers use.

This unit introduces students to the Australian legal system, its operation and development, and to the principles of law applicable to core areas of business, such as contract law, tort law and agency law. Students studying Business will usually find this unit essential and prerequisite to further studies.