Bachelor of Business (Accounting)

A rewarding career – professionally and financially – awaits you upon completion of your Bachelor of Business at Stott’s College.

The course is designed to give you a solid foundation in business disciplines, ensuring you can work in a number of roles across organizations or run your own business. It will also allow successful graduates to become eligible for membership to CPA Australia and the Institute of Public Accountants.

Through both theoretical and practical examples, you will be taught the skills to be adaptable and proactive in the rapidly changing world of commerce. You will gain a comprehensive knowledge of the industry, with subject studies in a broad range of areas including Business, Human Resources, Information Systems, Law, and Marketing.

The Bachelor of Business is a fully accredited Australian higher education degree completed over a three-year period. The structure of the degree with a major in Accounting provides students with the knowledge and information to move directly into a career as an Accountant either as an employee or a small business owner, or go onto further study at post-graduate level.

Get set to take your pick of the many jobs on offer in the business world as you launch your career with a degree from Stott’s College.

Course Structure

To be eligible for the award of Bachelor of Business (Accounting), a student must acquire 24 units (360 credit points) as prescribed below: 14 core units, 9 major units, and 1 elective unit.

Units

Core 14 units:

• ACC103 Accounting and Business Decisions 1
• ACC302 Corporate Finance
• BIS101 Business Information Systems
• COM201 Business Communication
• ECO101 Foundations of Economics
• HRM101 Introduction to Human Resource Management
• LAW101 Fundamentals of Law
• LAW202 Company Law
• MAN101 Introduction to Management
• MAN204 Organisational Behaviour
• MAN301 Strategic Management
• MAN302 Preparation of the Business Plan
• MRK101 Introduction to Marketing
• MRK201 Marketing Mix

and a major stream of 9 units (135 credit points) and 1 elective unit (15 Credit points)

• ACC104 Accounting and Business Decisions 2
• ACC202 Management Accounting
• ACC203 Accounting Information Systems
• ACC204 Corporate Accounting
• ACC303 Taxation
• ACC304 Auditing and Assurance
• ACC305 Accounting Theory
• ACC306 Strategic and Sustainable Accounting
• BST201 Business Statistics

Course Outcomes

Graduates may apply for associate membership of CPA Australia and the Institute of Public Accountants.

Requirements

International students must also demonstrate that they have English language ability equivalent to IELTS level 6.

Competency to IELTS 6 means that the student has documentary evidence of having completed an IELTS exam at an official IELTS testing centre or an equivalent recognised English language test, within the previous twelve months of the student’s proposed start date for the Bachelor of Business and that the student was given an overall score of 6 with no single band lower than 5.5.

Despite the fact that Stott’s College was founded in 1883 (before our famous Melbourne trams and before ‘The Big Australian’, BHP), it has stood the test of time and has evolved over the past 134 years as a quality private education provider , challenging itself to be relevant in meeting the ever-changing needs of industry and students. Stott’s has delivered the VCE program since 2001, and in 2006 was registered and accredited as a Higher Education provider to deliver Undergraduate Programs in Business , Bachelor of Business Accounting and Bachelor of Business Community Services Management . Stott’s Secondary is ranked an impressive 203rd out of all the secondary schools in the state of Victoria . We are proud of our students’ achievements. Good quality educators are critical for academic success, and good teaching is so much about care and support. Our academic staff provides excellence in teaching, and we are serious about our student services and counseling, both academic and first language counseling. Stott’s remains true to its tradition of job-ready graduates, and Acknowledge Education has employed our graduates in accounting, student services, and management. We are proud to be a successful business running business programs and attracting industry partnerships. Stott’s College has both FEE-HELP status and VET FEE-HELP status to assist our students in loans for their academic study. Stott’s also qualifies for Victorian Skills Funding for Certificate and Diploma courses for the courses that qualify and for students who are eligible. Stott’s College meets stringent quality assurance standards in its administrative, delivery, staffing, facilities, marketing, and financial management. Stott’s College ’s operations are regulated by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency , the Australian Skills and Quality Agency , and the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority .