Recommended Study Sequence

This unit provides an introduction to the Human Resource Management (HRM) function in business and government organisations within the Australian socio-political context. It provides an overview of the function; an examination of its relationships with other business functions; a review of its foundation disciplines (psychology, sociology, law, economics, management and organisation theory); a study of the concept of professional HRM practice; and an examination of trends in HRM practice, taking into account projected legal, technological and economic change. Various models of the HR function are reviewed and an attempt is made to integrate HR and industrial relations activities into an HR employment relations model.

This unit provides an overview of Australia's traditional system of industrial relations and the forces for change; discussion of strategic responses to change such as award restructuring, enterprise bargaining, career development and skill formation and implications for industrial relations participants; and development of skills for the new workplace relations including negotiating skills, grievance handling skills, the role of consultative mechanisms and establishing consultative processes and productivity bargaining at the workplace.

The nature of accounting requires the first unit in accounting to attend to the process and system, which represents what accountants do. Many of the most difficult theoretical, conceptual and practical problems encountered by accountants originate in the basic model A=O+E and the necessity of making data and events conform to that model. Concepts and principles in accounting ultimately must face the test of procedure and relate to the systematic processing of the data. Introduction to accounting regulation and ethics.Students wishing to take this unit as an Elective need approval from either the Head of Program or the Course advisor.

Accounting: A Business Perspective focuses on the analytical uses of accounting information by managers. It emphasizes the role of both financial and management accounting in measuring, processing and communicating information that is useful in making economic decisions.

This unit introduces marketing management to post-graduate students whose previous studies and current occupations can be quite diverse. It provides students with an appreciation of marketing concepts and principles as part of their marketing studies. In addition, it exposes students to a systematic thinking approach expected from them in postgraduate studies in marketing.

This unit concentrates on both Microeconomic and Macroeconomic theories. Microeconomics is concerned with the study of individual units within the economy - the individual consumer, the individual firm, the type of market structure facing the firm and price and output determination. Macroeconomics is concerned with analysis of the factors determining the way in which the economic resources of an economy are utilised or under-utilised. Students wishing to take this unit as an elective will need to seek approval from either the Head of Programs or Course advisor.

This unit provides an introduction to the Human Resource Management (HRM) function in business and government organisations within the Australian socio-political context. It provides an overview of the function; an examination of its relationships with other business functions; a review of its foundation disciplines (psychology, sociology, law, economics, management and organisation theory); a study of the concept of professional HRM practice; and an examination of trends in HRM practice, taking into account projected legal, technological and economic change. Various models of the HR function are reviewed and an attempt is made to integrate HR and industrial relations activities into an HR employment relations model.

The nature of accounting requires the first unit in accounting to attend to the process and system, which represents what accountants do. Many of the most difficult theoretical, conceptual and practical problems encountered by accountants originate in the basic model A=O+E and the necessity of making data and events conform to that model. Concepts and principles in accounting ultimately must face the test of procedure and relate to the systematic processing of the data. Introduction to accounting regulation and ethics.Students wishing to take this unit as an Elective need approval from either the Head of Program or the Course advisor.

Accounting: A Business Perspective focuses on the analytical uses of accounting information by managers. It emphasizes the role of both financial and management accounting in measuring, processing and communicating information that is useful in making economic decisions.

This unit provides an overview of Australia's traditional system of industrial relations and the forces for change; discussion of strategic responses to change such as award restructuring, enterprise bargaining, career development and skill formation and implications for industrial relations participants; and development of skills for the new workplace relations including negotiating skills, grievance handling skills, the role of consultative mechanisms and establishing consultative processes and productivity bargaining at the workplace.

This unit introduces marketing management to post-graduate students whose previous studies and current occupations can be quite diverse. It provides students with an appreciation of marketing concepts and principles as part of their marketing studies. In addition, it exposes students to a systematic thinking approach expected from them in postgraduate studies in marketing.

This unit concentrates on both Microeconomic and Macroeconomic theories. Microeconomics is concerned with the study of individual units within the economy - the individual consumer, the individual firm, the type of market structure facing the firm and price and output determination. Macroeconomics is concerned with analysis of the factors determining the way in which the economic resources of an economy are utilised or under-utilised. Students wishing to take this unit as an elective will need to seek approval from either the Head of Programs or Course advisor.