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Program Code

BCOM

Academic Year

2023

Program Faculty

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Special Notes

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These Program Rules should be read in conjunction with the University's policies (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies).

Overview

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.

Conditions

Condition of Enrolment
Interruption of program: Students must apply for permission from the Faculty before taking a Leave of Absence. Any extension of the leave without approval will result in the loss of place in the program but an application may be made to be re-admitted to the program subject to the admission procedures in place at the time.

Academic Program Rules for Bachelor of Commerce

There shall be a Bachelor of Commerce.

Qualification Requirements

Academic Program:

To qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Commerce, the student must complete satisfactorily a program of study consisting of the following requirements with a combined total of not less than 72 units, comprising:

Level I courses not exceeding 30 units
Core courses to the value of 12 units
One major from the following:
- Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Marketing
- Accounting and Corporate Finance (double major)
- Accounting and Marketing (double major)
- Corporate Finance and Marketing (double major)
Capstone course to the value of at least 3 units
Broadening electives to the value of 9 units

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Core Courses

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
ECON 1008	Data Analytics I	3
ENTREP 1000	Business Lifecycles	3
ENTREP 1002	Personal Professional Development	3
ENTREP 1011	Entrepreneurial Foundations and Mindset	3

Capstone

All students, except those in the Corporate Finance and Marketing double major, must complete at least one course from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PROF 3500	Undergraduate Professions Internship	3
PROF 3501	Undergraduate Professions Internship OS	3
PROF 3505	Undergraduate Professions Virtual Internship	3
PROF 3510	Industry Project	3
ENTREP 3900	eChallenge	3
ENTREP 3901	Tech eChallenge	3
ENTREP 3902	Project Abroad UG	6

Students completing a major in Marketing including a double major must complete the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
MARKETNG 3004	Marketing Planning Project	3

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Accounting

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
ACCTING 1004	Accounting Foundations	3
ACCTING 2500	Cost and Management Accounting	3
ACCTING 2501	Financial Accounting	3
ACCTING 2503	Accounting Systems and Data Analytics	3
ACCTING 3500	Accounting Theory	3
ACCTING 3501	Corporate Accounting	3
ACCTING 3502	Auditing	3
COMMLAW 2503	Company and Business Law	3
COMMLAW 3500	Income Tax Law III	3
CORPFIN 1002	Business Finance	3
ECON 1012	Principles of Economics I	3

Corporate Finance

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
ACCTING 1004	Accounting Foundations	3
CORPFIN 1002	Business Finance	3
CORPFIN 2502	Business Valuation	3
CORPFIN 2503	Business Data Analytics	3
CORPFIN 2506	Options, Futures & Risk Management	3
CORPFIN 3501	Portfolio Theory & Management	3
CORPFIN 3505	Corporate Regulations and Ethics in Finance	3
CORPFIN 3506	Takeovers, Corporate Restructuring and Governance	3
CORPFIN 3507	Topics in Corporate Finance	3
ECON 1012	Principles of Economics I	3

and

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
CORPFIN 2501	Financial Institutions Management	3

or

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
CORPFIN 2505	Alternative Investments	3

Marketing

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
COMMLAW 2503	Company and Business Law	3
MARKETNG 1001	Introduction to Marketing	3
MARKETNG 2006	Delivering Customer Insights	3
MARKETNG 2010	Marketing Strategy	3
MARKETNG 2501	Consumer Behaviour	3
MARKETNG 3002	Marketing Analytics	3
MARKETNG 3501	Marketing to the World	3
MARKETNG 3504	Service Design and Marketing	3

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Accounting and Corporate Finance

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
ACCTING 1004	Accounting Foundations	3
ACCTING 2500	Cost and Management Accounting	3
ACCTING 2501	Financial Accounting	3
ACCTING 2503	Accounting Systems and Data Analytics	3
ACCTING 3500	Accounting Theory	3
ACCTING 3501	Corporate Accounting	3
ACCTING 3502	Auditing	3
ECON 1012	Principles of Economics I	3
COMMLAW 2503	Company and Business Law	3
COMMLAW 3500	Income Tax Law III	3
CORPFIN 1002	Business Finance	3
CORPFIN 2502	Business Valuation	3
CORPFIN 2503	Business Data Analytics	3
CORPFIN 2506	Options, Futures & Risk Management	3
CORPFIN 3501	Portfolio Theory & Management	3
CORPFIN 3505	Corporate Regulations and Ethics in Finance	3
CORPFIN 3506	Takeovers, Corporate Restructuring and Governance	3
CORPFIN 3507	Topics in Corporate Finance	3

and

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
CORPFIN 2501	Financial Institutions Management	3

or

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
CORPFIN 2505	Alternative Investments	3

Accounting and Marketing

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
ACCTING 1004	Accounting Foundations	3
ACCTING 2500	Cost and Management Accounting	3
ACCTING 2501	Financial Accounting	3
ACCTING 2503	Accounting Systems and Data Analytics	3
ACCTING 3500	Accounting Theory	3
ACCTING 3501	Corporate Accounting	3
ACCTING 3502	Auditing	3
COMMLAW 2503	Company and Business Law	3
COMMLAW 3500	Income Tax Law III	3
CORPFIN 1002	Business Finance	3
ECON 1012	Principles of Economics I	3
MARKETNG 1001	Introduction to Marketing	3
MARKETNG 2006	Delivering Customer Insights	3
MARKETNG 2010	Marketing Strategy	3
MARKETNG 2501	Consumer Behaviour	3
MARKETNG 3002	Marketing Analytics	3
MARKETNG 3501	Marketing to the World	3
MARKETNG 3504	Service Design and Marketing	3

Corporate Finance and Marketing

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
ACCTING 1004	Accounting Foundations	3
COMMLAW 2503	Company and Business Law	3
CORPFIN 1002	Business Finance	3
CORPFIN 2502	Business Valuation	3
CORPFIN 2503	Business Data Analytics	3
CORPFIN 2506	Options, Futures & Risk Management	3
CORPFIN 3501	Portfolio Theory & Management	3
CORPFIN 3505	Corporate Regulations and Ethics in Finance	3
CORPFIN 3506	Takeovers, Corporate Restructuring and Governance	3
CORPFIN 3507	Topics in Corporate Finance	3
ECON 1012	Principles of Economics I	3
MARKETNG 1001	Introduction to Marketing	3
MARKETNG 2006	Delivering Customer Insights	3
MARKETNG 2010	Marketing Strategy	3
MARKETNG 2501	Consumer Behaviour	3
MARKETNG 3002	Marketing Analytics	3
MARKETNG 3501	Marketing to the World	3
MARKETNG 3504	Service Design and Marketing	3

and

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
CORPFIN 2501	Financial Institutions Management	3

or

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
CORPFIN 2505	Alternative Investments	3

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Elective Courses

Students may include electives from any undergraduate courses offered by the University that are available to the student. All students must include 9 units of Broadening Electives except for students completing a double major in Accounting and Corporate Finance, Accounting and Marketing, or Corporate Finance and Marketing.

Published on: 30 November, 2022 | 10:16:49