The Bachelor of Commerce is designed to prepare students for professional accreditation in accounting, finance or marketing. Students completing an accounting major will be entitled to join the CPA Australia (Certified Practising Accountants) and CA ANZ (Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand); the finance major meets the entrance requirements of the CFA Institute (Chartered Financial Analyst); and the marketing major is accredited with the AMI (Australian Marketing Institute).
The objectives of the Bachelor of Commerce are to provide students with:
- professional business skills, knowledge and experience/analytical tools necessary to be the creators, transformers and leaders of sustainable and innovative enterprises in the modern world;
- broad and coherent procedural and declarative knowledge of contemporary business issues and skills, with specialist discipline-specific depth in their respective discipline;
- opportunities to engage in work integrated learning;
- the capability to demonstrate their understanding of the principles, skills and knowledge of their respective disciplines.
The Bachelor of Commerce is an AQF level 7 program with a standard full-time duration of 3 years.