UoM General Chat

[notveryasian]

I think Business Finance (or Corporate Finance) will be renamed to Corporate Financial Decision Making - which I'm pretty sure people would still call it Corp Fi for short.
http://bcom.unimelb.edu.au/majors/finance

Glad they're changing up the Finance major a little, progression of the content is pretty weird and desperately needed a change. Surprised to see Corp Fi merged with BusFi (or at least it seems that way), would have thought Investments would be the one given that almost all the content in the subject is just rehashed from BusFi.

[spectroscopy]

Some of the sample course plans for the commerce majors have already been updated to reflect this. From next year, Accounting Reports and Analysis is core for BCom.

i would like to thank the lord that this change will not affect me. i still have nightmares about that subject. good to read that they have decided to reduce the content in it.

EDIT: Spelling

[dankfrank420]

Out of the level 3 Finance Subjects (Investments, Derivative securities, Corporate finance) which would you say is the easiest?

[notveryasian]

Out of the level 3 Finance Subjects (Investments, Derivative securities, Corporate finance) which would you say is the easiest?

Haven't done CorpFi and only halfway through DS this semester but I'm finding DS to be harder than Investments.

[tashhhaaa]

is BIOL10005 tute attendance a hurdle??

[Alter]

is BIOL10005 tute attendance a hurdle??

No. Attendance is only recorded in case of special circumstances (e.g. you fail the subject but you're on the cusp and need evidence of trying or something). It isn't an actual hurdle to pass the subject. 

[Cornrow Kenny]

Anyone here doing/planning on doing/completed honours? My careers advisor said it was really common at Melbourne, is this true? Especially curious about what Commerce students are doing

Thanks!

[dankfrank420]

What's the logic behind putting the "mid-semester break" 10 weeks into a 12 week semester?

[spectroscopy]

What's the logic behind putting the "mid-semester break" 10 weeks into a 12 week semester?

the biggest reason is so that it aligns with the australian university games. This is so that the hundreds of kids that need to go interstate for the week to compete do not miss out on class. it sucks from an academic standpoint but alot of people go to the AUG. it is not just to compete but as support staff/helpers/etc. also its one of the biggest events on the australian sporting circuit with a fair amount of olympic and commonwealth games scouting eg; if you jump a certain height in high jump the officials will figure out if you fit the nationality requirements and see if theres an avenue for you to represent the country. similiar with other team sports like rugby 7's they are quite heavily scouted. also it's one of the biggest competitive rivalries that the universities have between each other, although it can be almost invisible if you arent a participant in it. but the universities definitely like to show off their guns in different sports and if you look at some of the sports like swimming it is basically the universities saying to each other "look how good/rich we are this guy is goin to the olympics and he chose to study with us not you "
many unis also have quite lucrative scholarships for elite athletes (especially usyd). it ends up being a huge event with most of the events being livestreamed and available to watch on youtube LOL. but yeah thats one of the main reasons why mid sem break is at the time period where it is.

(on a side note uni games is sooo fun i highly recommend anyone to go if you ever get the chance)

[Adequace]

Sorry to intrude your thread but @spectroscopy, are the Australian Uni games held in different cities every year and do you need to get their yourself (like you won't get flown out by the your uni?). Seems pretty cool.

[spectroscopy]

Sorry to intrude your thread but @spectroscopy, are the Australian Uni games held in different cities every year and do you need to get their yourself (like you won't get flown out by the your uni?). Seems pretty cool.

Yeah different cities every year but Gold Coast have had it every second year for a while.
Also nah you don't get flown out so you have to arrange your own transport but if you are good usually you qualify for some sort of elite athlete scholarship which is designed to offset that cost (and in some cases at places like usyd you get way more money than u need). But if you aren't good enough to get a scholarship I know Melbourne uni has 0 interest loans for students designed to fund their trip (at Melb you can actually access these loans for heaps of different reasons LOL)

[Escobar]

will i lose marks if i miss one intro macro tute throughout the semester?

[Orb]

will i lose marks if i miss one intro macro tute throughout the semester?

1 mark per tute you miss, so it's probably best that you don't

[notveryasian]

1 mark per tute you miss, so it's probably best that you don't

Aren't you allowed to miss one or two tutes and not lose marks for it?

[Orb]

Aren't you allowed to miss one or two tutes and not lose marks for it?

Not with Rob Dixon running it, nope.