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Part A: Specialist discipline knowledge (14 Units)

You must complete the following seven units (42 credit points). You must complete ECM1953 or ECW1101 and ECW1102.

Note : If you complete ECW1101 and ECW1102 you only complete 6 credit points in Part B.

You must complete one of the following units (6 credit points).

You must complete the one of the following options (6 credit points or 12 credit points).

You must complete the following five units (30 credit points).

You must complete the following seven units (42 credit points).

Part A summary

Seven units + seven unit = 14 units.

Part B Additional discipline knowledge (2 units)

You must complete 12 credit points from the following units.
If you complete ECW1101 and ECW1102 in Part A, you only need to complete 6 credit points in Part B.

Part B summary

You must complete Additional discipline knowledge = 2 units.

Part C: Free Elective Study (8 Units)

This is the most adventurous part of the Bachelor of Business and Commerce because the choice is yours! Here you have 8 units of “electives'' which means that you can choose what you want to study. Let’s discuss some of the common choices that students make:

• A major from the Bachelor of Business and Commerce.
  Many students study a major so that they can graduate with a major. If you want to do this, you need to plan early so you can start studying the units from your major early. If you study a  major you need to follow the rules of the major as explained above.

You can choose your major from the following list:

• Accountancy
• Applied economics
• Banking and financial management
• Business analytics
• Digital marketing
• Econometrics and business statistics
• FinTech
• International Business Management
• Management
• Strategic Marketing
In your major you may also find there is a 1000 level unit that you have already studied in Part A. You may also find that there is another 2000 or 3000 level unit that you have already studied in your  Part A or Part B. Because you have already completed these units, they become free electives in Part C: you can take any unit you want to fill these elective slots.

• A minor (or two minors) from the Bachelor of Business and Commerce
  You can also take a minor, or two, from the Bachelor of Business and Commerce. A minor is a set of 4 units that concentrate on a single area of study. You can choose your minor from the following list. Of course, you cannot take a minor in the same area of study as your major.
  
  You may find that your minor has a unit (or even two) that you have already studied in your first major. Because you have already completed these units, they become free electives in Part C: you can take any unit you want to fill these elective slots.
  • Accountancy minor
  • Applied economics minor
  • Banking and financial management minor
  • Business law and taxation minor
  • Business analytics minor
  • Digital marketing minor
  • Econometrics and business statistics minor
  • FinTech minor
  • International Business Management minor
  • Management minor
  • Strategic Marketing minor
  • Sustainability minor

• Free electives
  You can use the units in Part C as “free electives”. That means that you can take any Monash units, provided you meet any pre-requisite requirements or other limitations (such as enrolment caps). If you take a minor, you can combine a minor with four free electives. When you are choosing free electives you need to check that you don’t break two important degree rules:
  • You can only count ten 1000 level units in your degree (including the 7 you have completed in Part A and any additional 1000 level units in your major).
  • You must complete at least a total of six 3000 level units.

Part C summary

You must complete 8 additional units. This could be one major, or two minors, or a minor plus four free electives, or eight free electives.

Special Advice for students who want to complete an Accounting Major

Part A. Business and Commerce Specified Study

You have to complete 8 units in Part A. In your first year, you will be completing these 7 core units:

• ACW1120 - Financial Accounting 1
• ACW2220 - Management Accounting 1
• BFW1001 - Foundations of finance
• BTW1042 - Business Law
• ECM1953 - Principles of economics
• ETW1001 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis
• MGW1010 - Introduction to Management

In your third year, you are required to complete 1 capstone unit: ACW3900 Global Issues in Accounting.

Accountancy students who plan to pursue Applied Economics as their second major must complete ECW1101 Introductory microeconomics and ECW1102 Introductory macroeconomics instead of ECM1953 Principles of Economics.

Part B. Business Listed Major

To gain a major in Accountancy, you need to complete these 8 units:

• ACW2120 Financial Accounting 2
• ACW2420 Accounting Information Systems
• ACW3120 Financial Accounting 3
• ACW3220 Management Accounting 2
• ACW3620 Assurance and Audit Services
• BFW2140 Corporate finance 1
• BTW2213 Malaysian Company Law
• BTW3153 Malaysian Income Tax Law

The BBusCom course is accredited by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), CAANZ (Certified Accountants Australia and New Zealand) and CPA (Certified Practising Accountants). To be exempted from some modules set by these professional bodies, you must complete all the units in the Accountancy major.

Special Note: for Accounting students going for exchange: Students wishing to get professional bodies accreditation are highly advised to NOT enrol for Accounting units while going for Global Intercampus Program or the Inter-university Exchange Program. All accounting units should be taken in Monash University Malaysia to ensure the unit codes match the Monash University Malaysia's unit codes already approved by these accreditation bodies.

Part C. Free Elective Study

There are a number of different options for Part C of the degree. They are summarized here.

Accountancy students who plan to pursue Applied Economics as their second major must complete ECW1101 Introductory microeconomics and ECW1102 Introductory macroeconomics instead of ECM1953 Principles of Economics in Part A.

How will my unit/major selection impact on my exchange program

During your course, you can opt to study a semester or two at any one of Monash's partner universities or study at a Monash campus in Australia for one semester.

You are encouraged to plan for this early in your course, preferably in your first semester, as you will need some flexibility in your course structure if deciding to study in Australia or a partner university.

Studying at a Monash Australia campus is the most convenient as you will find that most units you need for your major (or minor) are also offered in Australia. Apart from the Faculty conditions, you would also need to check if the units you need for your major are offered while you are in Australia.

If you prefer to study at a partner university, the choice of units you can take at the partner university will be dependent if you are substituting it with a Monash compulsory core unit, unit contributing to your major, or free elective unit. There are faculty policies in determining how the partner university subjects are assessed and approved:

• For compulsory core units, an equivalency assessment will be made where the partner university subject will need to share an 80% or greater overlap in learning outcomes, content and assessment.
• Units required for your major offers some flexibility in equivalency assessment and will be determined by the Faculty. This will be approved if the partner university subject is judged to have sufficient equivalent content and equates to six Monash credits on its own or in combination with another host subject.
• The most frequently used type of unit by students who exchange to a partner university are free electives. These units offer flexibility in your choice of study while overseas and can be anything judged suitable for credit at an appropriate learning volume.

Regardless of your study abroad location of choice, you will find that a single major offers greater flexibility in your course plan as you will have more ‘free electives’ to undertake while overseas. The choice is ultimately yours and we encourage you to plan early.