Monash Accounting vs RMIT Accounting

[champorado]

Haha, I've just spent the whole morning going over my preferences. First is still the same, but I've been tossing up between Arts/Commerce and Commerce. In the end, I ended up where I was yesterday, haha. Instead of doing it as a major in an arts degree, I'll do it through a diploma (which means I can double major in commerce instead of having to do a bunch of arts minors). They didn't really confirm if I could do what I wanted (business faculty transferred me to arts, and then arts said I should ask the business faculty xD), but it should all work out.

Roxxii, I don't have seas or anything like that, so I'll be doing Commerce at Clayton for sure.

[*Roxxii*]

Nawww, well you wont really know for sure until all the offers come out, you still have a little chance

But it'd be great if you're gonna do Commerce @ Clayton hehe
What do you wanna major in?

Edit: 600th POST!!!!! Weeeeeeeeee 

[champorado]

I have no idea, but I'd like to keep my options open. I'd like to try everything before I commit, though I'd have to do accounting in the first semester cos that seems to have extra requirements in order to get accredited. How about you?

[Fyrefly]

I have no idea, but I'd like to keep my options open. I'd like to try everything before I commit, though I'd have to do accounting in the first semester cos that seems to have extra requirements in order to get accredited. How about you?

U can actually do that pretty easily.

There r 6 compulsory level 1 subjects that all provide a sort of basis and feel for different majors (like.. core units), as well as an additional 2 compulsory units chosen out of 4 (or 5..?) options.

If u really wanted 2 u could do all of them in ur 1st year, meaning that in most cases u won't *really* have 2 pick ur major until u start ur 2nd year.

[champorado]

Yeah, what I meant was that there are some majors with more than one compulsory level 1 unit. So for accounting, you also have to do financial accounting, which has AFC1000 as a prerequisite. That's the only example I can give, because the page stops listing compulsory units for majors after that (they just start saying x, min of 8 units offered by the department of x), but there are certain units that form prerequistes for further study in a given field. For something like marketing, the other unit is already part of the compulsory six, but if I want to do something like accounting or economics, I'll have to be more careful, I think.

These are the the units you get to choose from, btw. (4 level 1, 1 level 2, so you were right)
    *  AFC1030 Introduction to financial accounting, or AFC2140 Corporate finance
    * ECC1100 Principles of macroeconomics
    * ETC1010 Data modelling and computing
    * MGC1020 Organisations: contexts and strategies

[Flaming_Arrow]

Does accountancy at RMIT offer IBL?

[champorado]

Industry Based Learning?

RMIT seem to have two variants of each of their courses (well the ones I've been interested in, anyway), one goes for three years, the other for four. Looking under the 'A' section on their website only yields their three-year course, but the one with IBL is called the Bachelor of Business (Professional Accountancy).

link to course:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/programs/bp129
link to course outline:
clicky

note: In the VTAC guide, it is only listed as Accountancy. They have four courses listed under that name, but the one with mandatory work experience is '32011'.

[Flaming_Arrow]

thanks

[methodsboy]

Monash FTW!!!!!!!!!!