Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Business Administration

Accounting is the method of evaluating and reporting the financial health of businesses and individuals. In studying the accounting minor sequence, you’ll learn to analyse, research and make informed recommendations about a broad range of accounting problems and issues. You’ll also become proficient in internationally-recognised accounting principles, practices and techniques and apply them to a variety of situations, and you’ll prepare for a rewarding career as a professional accountant, tax professional, business advisor or manager.

Choose accounting and you’ll be given the skills, knowledge and accreditations you need to embark on a career that can provide value to almost any kind of organisation or business. – regardless of whether the wider economic outlook is a boom, bust, bull market, or recession.

Studying the data analytics minor sequence at ACU will give you insight into the fundamental concepts behind data and databases and the state-of-the- art techniques and technologies required to analyse large volumes of data. You’ll be introduced to real-world applications that can be derived from a thorough understanding of the data at your fingertips.

Careers in data analytics are in great demand in Australia and around the world. These skills are highly transferrable and continuously growing and developing. Good data analysts have more than a knack for numbers. They have an excellent eye for detail, possess good computer skills, and can identify key trends and patterns from a sea of information. They play an important role in their organisations – collecting and analysing a wide range of data types to gain game-changing insight. Data analysts can make informed recommendations to management to help improve and optimise the business – potentially changing its fortunes in the process. In an increasingly digital world, good data analysts are instrumental to their organisations.

Don’t just rewrite the rules, throw the rulebook away. If you like to think big and immerse in possibility, you’ll find tremendous value in the entrepreneurship minor sequence with its focus on new ventures, innovation and disruption – not just in technology and start-ups, but also family businesses, existing small businesses and social enterprises. Study the entrepreneurship minor sequence and you’ll get a firm foothold on how entrepreneurship is shaking up traditional industries like education, transport, food production and sustainable construction. You’ll also enhance many of your innate abilities, including your creativity, focus, resourcefulness, risk evaluation, determination, ability to communicate and willingness to work hard.

Oversee once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Learn how to take an occasion from concept to execution. Graduate with the flexibility to enter a range of industries, whether you’re interested in wedding planning, sports events, concerts, festivals, awards ceremonies, corporate events, or tourism. By choosing the event management minor sequence, you'll build a diverse set of skills including branding, media relations, logistics, regulatory compliance, client and stakeholder management, marketing and communications. You’ll also hone a range of highly transferable soft skills, such as the ability to organise, attention to detail, creative vision, leadership, and high-level abilities in communication and collaboration.

Everybody needs basic finance knowledge whether you’re making decisions involving borrowing money, making investments or assessing financing options. Study the finance minor sequence to learn the fundamentals of financial management and decision-making – including in times of uncertainty – and how to apply this expertise to sectors such as banking, consulting, planning, fund management, merchant banking, treasury or the share market.

Along the way, your experience will be enhanced by our small class sizes, allowing you to form close ties to your lecturers and tutors. After graduating, you’ll be prepared for financial management roles in private enterprise, government, the not-for-profit sector and trans-national corporations.

A business is only as good as its employees – and employees only thrive when there’s a good human resources team behind them. Human resource management (HRM) plays a critical role in every organisation. As an HRM professional, you’ll work to get the best from your people for the entire employment cycle. It’s a broad field, touching all parts of an organisation. It’s also a rapidly growing profession, with both jobs and income levels forecast to increase in the future. So why not get in on the ground floor with this human resource management minor sequence?

To succeed in business today, you need to develop a global mindset. When you study the international business minor sequence at ACU, your eyes will be opened to how globalisation continues to connect businesses, markets, people and information across countries and continents. Alongside such interconnectedness, a qualification in international business can open up career opportunities in a variety of sectors, in countries around the world. It’s time to make your mark on the ever-changing global economic landscape.

Scale up your career in management. As a manager in the making, you’ll empower your organisation, and its people, to succeed. From providing strategic guidance to supporting and motivating your team, you’ll make sure everything goes according to plan. Combining theory with practice, your studies in management will also teach you how to build trust, manage with empathy, promote sustainability, and align your teams towards good business and the good of society. Our courses have a global emphasis, so you’ll be prepared to take on a number of roles and enter a wide range of industries and businesses, including administration, operations, international trade – even a CEO – anywhere in the world.

Be the go-between in the business world, connecting brands, products and services to new markets and customers. As a graduate of the marketing minor sequence, you’ll use your creativity and insight to understand consumer behaviour, communicate brand and product value, monitor dynamically changing trends, find new markets for products and services, develop business strategies and work with a range of cutting-edge digital technologies.