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Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: ferrsal on January 23, 2013, 08:59:53 pm
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(when i say 'best commerce breadth' i mean a breadth from the commerce category, im actually doing a bachelor of science)
Im having trouble picking a breadth from this area and was wondering whether people can suggest which ones they enjoy or find interesting/beneficial.
thanks
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-Introductory Microeconomics
-Finance 1
Those 2 are the major useful ones from my point of view :)
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-Introductory Microeconomics
-Finance 1
Those 2 are the major useful from my point of view :)
I second those two as well. And both are introductory and very easy to do well in.
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Does anyone know if Intro Macro is better than Finance 1? Apparently Finance 1 is boring as shit, and I kinda liked Intro Micro last year.
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im also thinking about doing intro macro. does anyone know what intermediate micro and macro are like? how about level 3 micro and macro? are they worth doing or will they harm my gpa?
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You'd have to do Intro Micro before Intro Macro. From what I've heard, Intermediate economics gets calculus-y, so if you're into that sort of thing and you like eco, it'd be a good subject.
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ive already picked intro micro for semester 1 and ill probably pick intro macro. im just interested to see what the workload of intermediate and level 3 micro/macro are
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Does anyone know if Intro Macro is better than Finance 1? Apparently Finance 1 is boring as shit, and I kinda liked Intro Micro last year.
yes, like Hancock said, economics involve more mathematics at higher levels and it's formulas kind of gets to a different level compare to Intro micro, unless you really like numbers and see how things come about.
Despite the fact that I got was higher for Finance 1 than Intro micro,
Finance 1 has a bit of calculation, very simple and logical, the basis of Finance and the principle, time value of money! The rest about each market, such as bond, equity, cash.
What financial instruments we have, treasury bills, bonds. How each market works, such as Over-the-counter, how they place bids....settlement of the cash flows between banks...etc
I think that's about it..LOL :)
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Would you recommend Finance 1 or Intro Macro? I'm thinking of taking Finance after that description haha
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A lot of biomed friends asked me that question as well...
however, Finance exams are more tricky than economics exam in my opinion.
Also, doing going in Finance 1 depends on the lecture because their exam structure will be different...
but the Intro macro lecturer is really good...(still Nills Olekalns?)
what do you enjoy most? knowing more about financial markets or how the economy work?(such as dealing with GDP, growth, unemployment....but macro was fun :)
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I'm kinda tossing up between Intro Macro, Finance 1 and Business Law (just so I can continue Law breadths because I'm looking at doing the JD). I liked Microeconomics but that was just because it all made sense and wasn't too hard. I think I may give a shot at Finance 1 because financial markets interest me a bit more than economies I think. But PBL is a prereq for all other law breadths like corporate law. Hmmm.
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Would you recommend Finance 1 or Intro Macro? I'm thinking of taking Finance after that description haha
Definitely finance 1. The exam is like 55-45 calculations to theory. You get a formula sheet and most calculation question you just need to extract numbers and plug it into the formula or rearrange the formula. The theory isn't too bad, some of it's interesting if you enjoy finance, otherwise it'll be a bore lol
Intro macro is alright, what you learn is more stimulating and interesting than micro. Most of the questions in the exam are based on conceptual understanding with very limited basic algebra, expect a lot of writing, analysis and explanations...
In terms of maximizing your grade I reckon finance, for interest it would depend on what you find interesting.
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Definitely finance 1. The exam is like 55-45 calculations to theory. You get a formula sheet and most calculation question you just need to extract numbers and plug it into the formula or rearrange the formula. The theory isn't too bad, some of it's interesting if you enjoy finance, otherwise it'll be a bore lol
Intro macro is alright, what you learn is more stimulating and interesting than micro. Most of the questions in the exam are based on conceptual understanding with very limited basic algebra, expect a lot of writing, analysis and explanations...
In terms of maximizing your grade I reckon finance, for interest it would depend on what you find interesting.
Swarley, when did you do Finance 1? apparently my friend did it last sem and It had a lot of theory questions....
Hancock, not doing Law subjects won't disadvantage you from getting into JD and the Law stuff you learn is more inclined towards the business side...business law...if you are willing to study, H1 is definitely attainable but Corp law is a tough one even for commerce studens.
:)
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I was wondering if you've taken PBL / Corp Law and what you thought of it. Does it give you a taste of law education or is it basically a commerce subject? I was just gonna take it to decide whether to go for the JD or stick with M.Eng like I originally planned.
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I think it's more personal preference... not any different in terms of difficulty. I did quite a bit better in micro than finance 1 because I hated finance basically. Maybe read the newspaper and figure out which subject you might like better? The assignments when I did finance 1 were ridiculous too but they were better the semester after.
Also intermediate micro only has algebra but I think inter macro uses calculus concepts... not sure though.
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I was wondering if you've taken PBL / Corp Law and what you thought of it. Does it give you a taste of law education or is it basically a commerce subject? I was just gonna take it to decide whether to go for the JD or stick with M.Eng like I originally planned.
Yes I've done both!
hmmm BLAW was Okay, you just need to study consistently and memorise the cases ... not so much of a taste of law education...
Corp law I really enjoyed it and it was fun, you do write like a law report and it's kind of like giving a professional legal advise after anaylysing the given facts, except all in business context. So you use the Corporations Act to assist you, understand these acts well, when you can apply it, are there any exceptions etc...and then provide your recommendations! However..it is really hard to get a H1...I think you have to be really good at explaining and reason it out...I got H1 for the assignment, final grade was H2...
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I'm doing marketing and management because I think they'll go really well with psych. I'm kind of excited for them both.
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Perhaps people should consider a Commerce Breadth Track, rather than random Commerce subjects.
In a Breadth Track, the subjects are grouped together logically.
For instance, the Breadth Track 'Fundamentals of Finance and Accounting' is a very good one.
The three subjects are :
ACCT10001 Accounting Reports and Analysis
FNCE10001 Finance 1
FNCE20001 Business Finance.
With this kind of solid grounding you can use your remaining Breadth to do more advanced Level 2/3 subjects in areas such as Markets or Business Valuation. This way you end up with a valuable skill.
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I did finance 1 in semseter 1 last year. I can't recall the number of theory questions but it was pretty much 1:1 with theory and calculations.
Also, I don't recommend doing any accounting units if you've never done it before, it'll be a lot of work if you want a good grade. Even if you just want to pass or get an average grade you'll have to do some work for it, although I hear that they've changed the first level 1 accounting unit now so it doesn't contain the more complex accounting processes.