BACHELOR OF
BUSINESS (BBUS)
The Bachelor of Business at Adelaide Institute of Higher Education will ask you to consider the challenges of contemporary global business environments and encourage you to develop knowledge and skills to embrace cultural diversity and recognise it as an asset to business and the broader community.
Mode of Delivery
On-Campus
AQF Level
7
Duration
3 Years Full Time
Location
Adelaide, SA & Melbourne, VIC
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Course Description
The Bachelor of Business Course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to work and contribute in a range of business-related careers. The Course is built on foundations of core disciplines of Business practice with an emphasis on being future work ready. This Course thus contains fundamental units such as accounting, marketing, statistics and business law as well as later year units in business technology, data analytics and risk management. The course is further characterised by the embedded study of ethics and governance as well as a capstone to encapsulate important aspects of business practice.
Learning Outcomes
Graduates of the Bachelor of Business will have demonstrated achievement of the following Course Learning Outcomes and be able to:
- CLO 1: Demonstrate a broad and coherent body of knowledge in business.
- CLO 2: Critically apply cognitive, analytical, and technical skills in business.
- CLO 3: Communicate in creative, coherent, and effective ways.
- CLO 4: Demonstrate the capacity to plan, problem solve and work individually and collaboratively with a socially responsible perspective.
Career Opportunities
The Bachelor of Business is designed to provide students with the foundational skills and knowledge to pursue entrepreneurial ambitions or pursue careers across a range of business-related areas.
Career paths include:
- Administrator, supervisor and office support
- Business consulting and advising
- Business development officer
- Business ownership
- Client, customer or relationship managers
- Procurement, marketing and sales
Unit and Study Load
The course comprises of 24 units (240 credit points).
Full-time students undertake 4 units of study during a study period. Each unit involves 12 hours of study per week, comprising of 3 hours face-to-face teaching and 9 hours of independent learning per unit.
Full-time students undertaking 4 units per study period will have 12 hours face-to-face teaching and 36 hours of independent study each week. A study period means the intake semester (or intake Summer School) and each subsequent semester.
First Study Period
Unit Description
Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring and communicating information about business activity for decision-making. This introductory unit provides an overview of business and the business environment and introduces the principles supporting the use of an accounting information system for business decision making in a socially responsible manner. The unit covers the relevance and significance of fundamental accounting conventions and addresses applications of the accounting information system from the perspective of a user. On completion of this unit, students should have a clear understanding of the role of financial accounting within a business organisation and how financial accounting helps managers meet business objectives. Students will be able to communicate with accounting professionals, understand the relevance of accounting information for informed decision-making by a wide range of potential users, and have the ability to analyse and interpret accounting information, including to analyse ethical and socially responsible business activity.
Unit Description
Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring and communicating information about business activity for decision-making. This introductory unit provides an overview of business and the business environment and introduces the principles supporting the use of an accounting information system for business decision making in a socially responsible manner. The unit covers the relevance and significance of fundamental accounting conventions and addresses applications of the accounting information system from the perspective of a user. On completion of this unit, students should have a clear understanding of the role of financial accounting within a business organisation and how financial accounting helps managers meet business objectives. Students will be able to communicate with accounting professionals, understand the relevance of accounting information for informed decision-making by a wide range of potential users, and have the ability to analyse and interpret accounting information, including to analyse ethical and socially responsible business activity.
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