best commerce breadth subject?

[simonhu81292]

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... 

[RTandon]

I'm doing marketing and management because I think they'll go really well with psych. I'm kind of excited for them both.

[Planck's constant]

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.

 

[Greatness]

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.