BCom (Melb) 2008 Cohort

[brendan]

I can do both an accounting and finance major! UoM said so!

I can't do honours in either. I can drop accounting to do Finance honours, and pick up the remaining acc subject in my honours year to attain accreditation.

We will see what the UoM decides.

first of all majors don't matter. employers care about honors and accreditation not about majors. they will see the subjects u do anyway. these "majors" are a new thing to unimelb. thirdly, i doubt very much that you can do level 300 subjects in your finance honours year.

http://www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/facs/ECO-S11015.html#S14381
"Level-3 subjects may not be taken with the exception of 316-350 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting."

Given that you have not done Spesh then i suppose this is the best program for you:

1st year
Semester 1
306-107 Accounting Reports and Analysis*
316-130 Quantitative Methods 1 (quantitative requirement)
316-102 Introductory Microeconomics* (compulsory)
732-103 Principles of Business Law (breadth requirement)
Semester 2
800-001 Engineering Systems Design 1 (breadth requirement)
306-108 Accounting Transactions and Analysis*
316-101 Introductory Macroeconomics* (compulsory)
306-106 Business Process Analysis

2nd year
Sem1
306-202 Intermediate Financial Accounting*
306-201 Cost Management
325-201 Organisational Behaviour (compulsory)
316-205 Introductory Econometrics  (quantitative requirement)
Sem2
306-208 Accounting for Corporate Entities*
732-202 Corporate Law* (breadth requirement)
333-201 Business Finance
XXX-XXX (breadth), I reccomend you do 800-002 Engineering Systems Design 2

3rd year
Sem1
333-302 Corporate Finance
333-301 Investments
306-301 Financial Accounting*
316-317 Econometrics*
Sem 2
XXX-XXX (breadth requirement)
306-302 Enterprise Performance Management
306-304 Auditing and Assurance Services*
732-303 Taxation Law* (breadth requirement)

As far as I know the above program satisfies accounting accreditation, and you satisfy the level-3 requirements for both finance and accounting. Don't worry whether it satisfies "major" requirements, because compared to accreditation and honours, a "major" is trivial.

[Galelleo]

I heard from dean of mathematics that when majoring in actuarial studies you could do Linear algebra and calculus 2 in first year rather than mathematics 1 and 2.

she said youd meet the same pre-requisite requirements and theyre easier subjects.
Does anyone know any info?

[brendan]

thats probably wrong.

[Galelleo]

Have done, and ive enrolled in mathmatics 1 and 2, just gathering the info

[Ahmad]

looking to do bcom at uom next year but have no interest whatsoever in anything commerce related

This doesn't sound good.

[Collin Li]

You should study Economics for it's application to Law. You don't need to major in it, because that would require you to continue onto third year Econometrics, which may not be something you wish to do (statistics). You'll definitely have a good idea of what it is because you need to do first-year and second-year statistics subjects (compulsory quantitative requirements).

If you wish to major in Corporate Law, studying Finance will be useful too. Otherwise, just do whatever interests you (e.g: don't do accounting).

[AppleXY]

To enter into Actuarial Studies in 2nd year, you must have completed 300-101 which is Introduction to Actuarial Studies.

Prerequisites: One of 620-120 UMEP Mathematics for High Achieving Students, 620-121 Mathematics A (Advanced), 620-141 Mathematics A, 620-155 Calculus 2, and 620-157 Mathematics 1.


Co-requisite: Students who do not meet the pre-requisite may enrol with either 620-155 Calculus 2 or 620-158 Mathematics 2 as a co-requisite.

[Kopite]

that actuarial stuff could be fun.

u might not b able 2 do it. i dunno if the jd requires you to have done law subjects prior to admission. if it were the case, u might not be able to do a actuarial sequence as some of ur subs would be taken up by law subs.

[Eriny]

Hmmm... which area of law are you interested in?

[bubble sunglasses]

 If I'm not mistaken, you could strike a balance by doing Arts -doing 2 Arts subjects, economics as an "Arts" subject and then a breadth in another commerce subject. That's presuming you like Arts, but just see it as superfluous to your career ambitions.

[Eriny]

I think that for some areas of law, arts is more relevant, but in other areas commerce is more relevant. I really don't think you should choose commerce for the sake of it if you have no interest in it at all.

[Kopite]

i dont think so. any undergrad course gives entry into law so they cant really make any prerequisites specific to commerce. my plan is to either get 99.9 which is EXTREMELY unlikely, then get guaranteed entry, or get above 99 and pay full fee for my jd if i dont get in through LSATs. If all of those fail then Monash would surely accept me into law given my completion of a Bachelor of Commerce degree. It would take an extra year compared to just doing a double degree at Monash but I'd say it's worth it.

well thats the melbourne model lol. someone doing agricultural studies could do 2 law subjects a year, which could be used as a pre-requisite into the JD.

how do u noe that monash will accept u after doing a BComm? r u 100% that they will accept u with a BComm from melbourne??