Bachelor of Business (Management) - UniSA Online

Course Name UO Business and Society

UO Accounting for Business

Bachelor of Business (Management)

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Course Units

Course Aim

Course Content

Course Objectives

Assessments

Type, Length, Duration, pct%, Objectives met

4.5 The aim of this course is to Business and society provides an introduction to the relationship between society, business, government, 1) Describe different perspectives on the role of 1) Continuous Assessment

develop students'

and the not-for-profit sector. It considers the historical and cultural influences on that relationship and the business in society

2,250 words

understanding of the

responsibilities of professionals as managers, practitioners, employees and customers. It provides the

2)Analyse how these different perspectives

50%

relationship between society, foundation for future study in the Business courses.

impact on the duties and responsibilities of

1,2,3,4,5,6

business, government, and the

business, including responsibilities towards

not-for-profit sector. It also

indigenous peoples

2) Case Study

aims to enable students to

3) Identify ethical issues in business,

2,250 words

identify a range of professional

government, not-for-profits and society

50%

capabilities necessary for

4) Identify the features of their intended

1,2,3,6

participation in a sustainable

profession and professional life in the

society.

community

5) Relate the importance and relevant features

of UniSA graduate qualities in preparing them for

professional life in the community

6) Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills: i) Self-

Management (foundation level); ii) Ethical

Awareness (foundation level); and iii) Written

Communication (foundation level).

Prerequisites

4.5 To provide an overview of the Accounting and the business environment; accounting information and its role in decision-making for

1) Discuss the role of the accounting profession 1) Portfolio

field of accounting and the management and external stakeholders; recording, reporting and analysing business transactions within the in business

1,250 words

conceptual and practical

accounting cycle; preparation and analysis of cashflow statements for business users.

2) Identify accounting as an information process 50%

foundation required to analyse

for business decision making and describe the

1,2,3,4,5,6

and interpret accounting

workings of the accounting cycle

information in the business

3) Explain the accounting equation and the

2) Examination

environment

determination of financial position

3 hours

4) Discuss the basic accounting concepts,

50%

principles and procedures

1,2,3,4,5

5) Analyse and interpret financial accounting

information from a management and user

perspective

6) Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills in the

context of Accounting: Written Communication

(foundation level).

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Course Name UO Business Law

Bachelor of Business (Management)

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Course Units 4.5

Course Aim

Course Content

The course aims to equip

Introduction to the Australian Legal System and Legal Ethics; Forms of Business Ownership; Business

students with a basic

Obligations, Ethics & Privacy; Causing Harm; Contracts - Formation; Contracts - Enforceability and Remedies

knowledge of how the law and for Breach; Employing Staff and the Principles of Agency; Consumer Protection Law; Competition Law; An

ethics affects business decision Introduction to the Law of Property.

making

and operations. It does so by

examining a number of

fundamental legal and ethical

principles that

facilitate yet impinge upon key

business areas such as

establishing a business,

entering into commercial

transactions, and protecting

business assets. It also

considers the relationship

between business and

regulators.

Course Objectives

Assessments

Type, Length, Duration, pct%,

Objectives met

1) Identify sources of business law.

1) Case Study 2000 words

2) Compare and contrast forms of business

50%

ownership, identify and analyse legal issues associated with commercial transactions, and

1,2,3,4

describe the legal requirements of the employment 2) Examination

relationship.

2 hours

3)Evaluate ethical issues for business, government, and the not for profit sector including issues relating

3,4,5,6

to privacy and the integrity of personal data.

4) Identify and analyse the legal responsibilities for

causing harm to persons and property and the legal

principles that businesses must comply with when

dealing with consumers.

5) Explain the legal requirements of creating and

protecting proprietary rights in business tenancies

and assets, including goodwill and intellectual

property rights.

6) Effectively communicate how legal principles

shape the Australian business environment and

affect business practice and decision-making.

7) Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills in the

context of Law: i) Problem Solving (foundation level);

ii) Ethical Awareness (foundation level); and iii)

Written Communication (foundation level).

Prerequisites

UO Quantitative Methods for Business

4.5 To develop students'

Business Mathematics and Statistics for decision making: time value of money and net present value

1) Understand the basis and role of quantitative 1) Case Study

mathematical and statistical calculations with applications, working with equations and graphs of straight lines, linear programming,

information for decision making in business and 3 x 1100 words

skills and a knowledge of the quantitative research principles in collecting, summarising and displaying business data, index numbers, management.

45%

use and relevance of those relations in categorical data, measures of association, fitting straight lines, elementary probability concepts, 2) Perform basic mathematical calculations and 2,3,4

skills in business and

the normal distribution and its business applications, elementary estimation and hypothesis testing,

manipulations, apply descriptive statistical

management

elementary decision making with Excel spreadsheets

methods and interpret the results.

2) Examination

3) Use Excel to carry out calculations and

2 hours

produce diagrams for decision making in

55%

business.

1,2

4) Demonstrate business enterprise skills: i)

Problem solving (foundation level); and ii)

Written communication (foundation level).

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Course Name UO Career Development for Professionals

Bachelor of Business (Management)

For further information on this degree please refer to the degree page:

Course Units

Course Aim

Course Content

4.5 This course will assist students This course introduces students to the concept, and significance, of professional identity and career

to refine career direction,

planning, development and management. It equips students with knowledge and tools to enhance career

recognise opportunities to decision-making capacity through exploration of self, learning about the world of work, and awareness of

enhance employability, make career-focused opportunities and activities. Career development planning theory and strategies; labour

informed career decisions, market information; self-assessment and reflection to inform career decision-making; understanding

develop pre-professional

occupational skills requirements; building professional identity

identity and utilise

verbally, in writing and online; communicating value to employers; recruitment and selection; career

contemporary career planning, planning.

development and

management strategies.

Course Objectives

Assessments

Type, Length, Duration, pct%,

Objectives met

1) Communicate key characteristics of student's 1) Portfolio

professional/pre-professional identity.

2,900 words

2) Investigate targeted ways to enhance

65%

student's career adaptability.

3,4,5

3) Clarify student's career goals/direction by

applying student's self-assessment as a

2) Report

filter/focus to analyse career options and labour 1,600 words

market information.

35%

4) Utilise a career development process to

1,2,4,5

enhance student's employability aligned with

career goals/direction and to plan and manage a

protean career.

5) Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills: i) Self-

Management (intermediate level); ii) Written

Communication (foundation level); and iii) Oral

Communication (foundation level).

Prerequisites

UO Marketing Principles: Trading and Exchange

4.5 To provide students with an This course introduces students to the role and contribution of Marketing to organisations and enterprises 1) Identify the concepts and principles used in 1) Report

understanding of marketing as today. Marketing and marketing people are used in, and by, most types of organisations both big and small; marketing management

1800 words

the study of trading and

for example, commercial, government, educational, artistic and social. The course will cover the main

2) Recognise and critically appraise the use of

40%

exchange in a modern

concepts and principles that underlie marketing thinking and practice. It will require students to understand these concepts and principles by organisations

1,2,3,4,5,6

economy and acquaint them these and also find out how they are applied in a range of enterprises.

3) Explain how contemporary markets function

with the key activities that are

and what influences customer and client

2) Project

involved in marketing.

response

2700 words

4) Demonstrate the ability to find key

60%

information about markets and major

1,4,5,6

organisations' marketing policies

5) Apply the concepts and principles of

marketing in written and oral form

6) Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills: i)

Problem Solving (foundation level); ii) Written

Communication (foundation level); iii) Oral

Communication (foundation level); and iv)

International Perspective

(foundation level).

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Course Name UO Principles of Economics

Bachelor of Business (Management)

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Course Units

Course Aim

4.5 To introduce students to the meaning and application of fundamental economic principles.

Course Content

Course Objectives

Assessments

Type, Length, Duration, pct%,

Objectives met

The economic decisions faced by individuals, households, firms and governments; analysis of prices and 1) Describe and utilise the fundamental tools, 1) Continuous Assessment

output determination in the context of markets and incentives; market structures, competition policy and its methods and language of economics to analyse 50%

implication for the general economy; the strengths and weaknesses of the market mechanism and the role resource allocation issues

1,3,4,6

of public policy; and economic analysis of contemporary economic issues in the macroeconomy.

2) Explain some of the economic factors

underlying individual decision-making, markets 2) Examination

and firms

3 hours

3) Describe the impact of incentives and use

50%

economic models to illustrate how agents and 1,2,3,4,5,6

economies respond to incentives

4) Identify the limitations of the market

mechanism and analyse the role of government

in affecting markets and decision-making in the

general economy

5) Apply economic principles and concepts to

analyse contemporary issues relating to

individuals, firms and markets in the

macroeconomy

6) Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills: i) Self-

Management (foundation level); and ii) Problem

Solving (foundation level).

Prerequisites

UO Foundations of Human Resource Management

4.5 To provide students with an The effects of sociological, legal, economic, ethical, political, strategic and environmental changes, issues 1) Describe the main technical activities and 1) Case Study

appreciation of current

and developments on human resource management processes, practices, programs and policies.

responsibilities of human resource managers

2,000 words

theoretical, sociological and

2) Identify the implications of current and recent 40%

practitioner-based issue and

economic and sociological pressures on human

1,3,4,5,6

developments in the technical

resource management

aspects of human resource

3) Develop effective organisational responses to 2) Continuous Assessment

management.

legal, political and ethical issues and

60%

developments which impinge on human

2,4,6

resource practices and policies

4) Determine the changing roles and

competencies of human resource practitioners in

response to strategic and environmental

modifications

5) Provide constructive feedback in a team

setting

6) Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills in the

context of the Human Resource Management

discipline: Problem Solving (intermediate level).

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Course Name UO Business Intelligence

UO Management and Organisation

Bachelor of Business (Management)

For further information on this degree please refer to the degree page:

Course Units

Course Aim

Course Content

Course Objectives

Assessments

Type, Length, Duration, pct%,

Objectives met

4.5 The course will explore how 1) Motivation for Business Intelligence (BI)

1) Explain the nature and role of business

1) Examination

business information systems - The challenge of turbulent business environments: overview, major issues and needs for business

information systems, of business intelligence and 1.5hours

and business intelligence are intelligence and analytics.

analytics in contributing to the delivery of

50%

used to provide business

- The impact of technology and the internet in the global business environment

business value and competitive advantage in

1,2,3

professionals with the ability - The need for analytics and data mining technologies in competitive business environments

modern organisations.

to conduct analysis of business - The strategic value of information and business intelligence in key enterprise systems

2) Differentiate the concepts of strategic

2) Assignment

operations and performance - Major issues and the need for business intelligence and analytics

information management, business analytics,

2550 words

for enhanced decision making. 2) Fundamentals of BI

business performance management and

50%

Students will be introduced to - The management of organisational information systems

measurement.

1,2,3,4,5

current concepts, processes - Creating, managing and sharing information and knowledge in business through the effective use of

3) Compare and evaluate key analytics methods,

and technologies in business technologies and systems

be able to discuss the pros and cons of data

intelligence and business

3) Theory behind BI and Analytics

mining methods

analytics, and will be equipped - The BI lifecycle model and development approaches, the costs, benefits, return on investment and user 4) Choose appropriate business intelligence and

to use selected analytics, to community.

analytics tools and techniques to implement a

interpret solutions to business - Business analytics and business performance management: linking strategy to execution, the link between business strategy.

related problems, and to

corporate and BI strategy, differences between performance management and measurement.

5) Use business intelligence and analytics

provide relevant business

- Privacy, ethical and legal issues.

software tools to solve real world problems and

advice.

4) Applied BI and analytics

interpret results.

- Data integration and the extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) processes, administration and security

issues

- Data Warehouse modelling and implementation success factors.

- The need for data mining technologies in competitive business environments.

- Modelling and predicting customer behaviours.

- Market basket analysis need for analytics and data mining and association rule mining.

- Use of BI and analytics tools in data analysis and knowledge discovery to solve real-world problems

- Review of contemporary BI applications in various industries;

- Interpreting the results of Business Intelligence and Analytics

Prerequisites

UO Quantative Methods for Business

OR

UO Accounting for Business

4.5 The course introduces students Introduction to contemporary management and the four management functions of planning, organising, 1) Identify and discuss the principles governing 1) Continous Assessment

to the fundamentals of

leading and controlling in the international and local contexts; the influence of External and Internal

effective and sustainable management of

50%

management that shape

environments on organisations including diversity and Aboriginal and other cultural perspectives; the nature individuals, teams and organisations

1,2,3,4,5,6,7

individual, group and

of motivation and decision making, managing risks, and managing organisational change.

2) Explain the functions, roles and skills of

organisational performance in

managers

2) Examination

business.

3) Discuss and evaluate how organisations

2 hours

manage diversity

50%

4) Evaluate the factors influencing individual,

1,2,3,4,5,7

team and organisational performance

5) Discuss, analyse and apply management and

organisational behaviour theory to assist

resolution of organisational issues

6) Outline how organisations innovate and

change

7) Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills: i)

Problem Solving (intermediate level); ii) Ethical

Awareness (intermediate level); iii) Written

Communication (intermediate level); iv) Oral

Communication (intermediate level); and v)

International Perspective (foundation level).

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