Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting)

Remaining students are to complete as outlined in the currently published course plan.

The Financial Planning Major has been removed from all Programs of Study, including for students admitted under Rule (a) and all articulation programs.

Program of Study – Overview

Core Units:

• Credit points have changed from 96 cps to 90 cps
• AFM272 code changed to AFM275
• COSC100 has been deleted
• FIN101 code changed to AFM103

Majors:

• Students may elect to complete ONE Major (42 cps) with 12 cps or Elective Units, or 54 cps of Elective Units.

Elective Units:

• Credit points have changed from 6 or 48 cps to 12 or 54 cps

Advanced Accounting Major:

Listed Units

• FIN302 code changed to AFM367
• WORK300 has been added

Agribusiness Major:

Prescribed Units:

• ECON335 title changed to Price Analysis in Food and Fibre Markets

Listed Units

• ECON334 title changed to Risk Management in Agibusiness
• WORK300 has been added

Finance Major:

Listed Units

• ECON303 and QM264 have been withdrawn
• ECON203, QM262 and WORK300 have been added

Withdrawn – Financial Planning Major

Prescribed Units:

• FIN200, FIN302, FIN303, FIN304, and FIN305 have been deleted. Students wishing to remain in this Major may complete these units cross-institutionally.
• MM110 title changed to Fundamentals of Marketing

Note withdrawal of Financial Planning Major. Continuing students in the Financial Planning Major are able to transfer majors, or complete units at other institutions to replace deleted units if they choose to stay in the Major.

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course.

The Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) has been renamed to the Bachelor of Accounting from 2016

Program of Study – Overview

Core Units:

• Credit points have changed from 42 cps to 96 cps
• COMP100 code and title changed to COSC100 Introduction to Informatics
• QM161 title changed to Business Statistics
• AFM211, AFM305, AFM319, AFM231, AFM272, AFM301, LSSU251, LSSU391, and LSSU392 have been added

Majors:

• Change from one Mandatory Major or one Mandatory Major and one Approved Major, to only one Approved Major
• Credit points have changed from 42 or 84 cps to 42 cps
• Mandatory Major Professional Accounting has been withdrawn
• Applied Finance Major has been renamed to Finance Major
• Advanced Accounting Major has been added
• Agribusiness Major has been added
• Financial Planning Major has been added
• Minimum units at 300-level changed from 24 cps to 6 cps

Elective Units:

• Credit points have changed from 18 or 60 cps to 6 or 48 cps
• “Complete 30 or 66 cps depending on whether candidates undertake ONE or TWO Majors”
  changed to
  Complete 6 or 48 credit points depending on whether candidates undertake ONE or No Major:
  (i) students undertaking an approved Major complete 6 credit points of Elective Units;
  (ii) students not undertaking an approved Major complete 48 credit points of Elective Units with not more than 18 credit points at 100-level and at least 6 credit points at 300-level.

New – Advanced Accounting Major

Prescribed Units:

• Complete the following units:
  AFM202, 306, 340, 372

Listed Units:

• Complete 18 cps from the following units:
  AFM242, 302, 304, 322, 324, 332, 335 and FIN302

New – Agribusiness Major

Prescribed Units:

• Complete the following units:
  BUS301, ECON221, 223, 335, MM403

Listed Units:

• Complete 12 cps from the following units:
  AFM242, ECON334, ECON329

Applied Finance Major renamed Finance Major

Prescribed Units:

• Change from 24 cps to 18 cps
• AFM231 has been withdrawn

Listed Units:

• Credit points changed from 18 cps to 24 cps
• ECON203/303 – ECON203 has been withdrawn
• ECON271/371 – ECON371 has been withdrawn
• ECON374 has been withdrawn and replaced with QM264 Introduction to Business Forecasting

Elective Units:

• Elective units have been withdrawn from the Major

New – Financial Planning Major

Prescribed Units:

• Complete the following units:
  FIN200, 302, 303, 304, 305, MM105, MM110.

Professional Accounting Major has been withdrawn

Prescribed Units:

• AFM311 code change to AFM305

Note course name change from 2016

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2016 course rules.

Note unit, unit code and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course.

Note change from one Mandatory Major (Professional Accounting) and one Approved Major (Applied Finance) to four Approved Majors: Advanced Accounting; Agribusiness; Finance; and Financial Planning.

Note credit point changes

Note Elective Unit credit point and requirement changes

Note new Majors

Note renamed Major

Note withdrawn Major

Program of Study – Overview

Majors:

• Credit points have changed from 36 or 72 cps to 42 or 84 cps
• Each major credit points changed from 36 cps to 42 cps

Elective Units:

• Credit points have changed from 30 or 66 cps to 18 or 60 cps

Applied Finance Major

Prescribed Units:

• AFM232 code changed to AFM242

Listed Units:

• Credit points changed from 12 cps to 18 cps
• AFM302, AFM324 and AFM340 have been added
• AFM331 code changed to AFM304
• ECON326 has been withdrawn

Professional Accounting Major

Prescribed Units:

• Credit points changed from 36 cps to 18 cps
• AFM211 title changed to Intermediate Financial Accounting
• AFM312 code changed to AFM319
• AFM202, 231, 272, 301, 302, 324, 340; LSSU251, 391 and 392 moved from Prescribed Units to Listed Units

New - Listed Units:

• Complete at least 24 cps with at least 12 cps at 300-level from the following units:
• AFM372 has been added

New – Elective Units:

• Complete either the Approved Major to the value of 42 cps and Elective Units to the value of 18 cps which includes at least 6 cps at 200-level and 12 cps at 300-level
  OR
  Elective Units to the value of 60 cps which includes at least 12 cps at 200-level and 18 cps at 300-level.

Note unit code and/or title changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course.

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2015 course rules.

Program of Study – Overview

Core Units:

• Credit points have changed from 36 cps to 42 cps
• FIN101 has been added

Elective Units:

• Credit points have changed from 36 or 72 cps to 30 or 66 cps

Professional Accounting Major

Prescribed Units:

• AFM302 has been added
• AFM340 title changed to Fraud Prevention and Investigation

Note unit and/or title changes

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2014 course rules.

Applied Finance Major

• There are no changes for 2013

Nil

Professional Accounting Major

Prescribed Units:

• AFM324 has been added

Note unit change

Applied Finance Major

• ECON226 has been withdrawn – ECON326 remains

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Students who wish to do so will complete ECON326 instead of ECON226

Professional Accounting Major

Prescribed Units:

• AFM340 has been added

Students may choose this unit as one of their Prescribed Units in this Major

Core Units

• COMP100 title changed to Introductory Information Technology

Note unit title change

Professional Accounting Major

Prescribed Units:

• LS251 code changed to LSSU251
• LS391 code changed to LSSU391
• LS392 code changed to LSSU392

Note unit code changes

Rule change

Student can undertake either One Mandatory Major (Professional Accounting) or

The Professional Accounting Major and the new Applied Finance Major

Elective Units – the number of credit points will vary depending on whether candidates undertake ONE or TWO Majors

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2010 course rules.

New – Applied Finance Major

Prescribed Units:

• AFM231 Corporate Finance
• AFM232 Financial Instruments and Markets
• AFM332 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
• AFM335 International Financial Management

Listed Units – Complete 12 credit points from the following units:

• AFM322 Small Business Finance
• AFM331 Financial Statement Analysis
• ECON203/303 Banking and Finance
• ECON226/326 Benefit-Cost Analysis
• ECON271/371 Introductory Economics
• ECON374 Econometric Analysis of Financial Markets

These course rule changes only apply to students who commence or transfer to 2010 course rules.