Help me pick Commerce units! (monash)

[kakar0t]

Hey guys,

I intend on completing an Accounting/Finance major and would appreciate some help in my unit selection. Would you guys recommend picking something different for any of the following? Or switching them around?

Semester 1 2011     

    * AFC1000: Principles of accounting and finance
    * ECC1000: Principles of microeconomics
    * ECC1100: Principles of macroeconomics
    * ETC1000: Business and economic statistics

Semester 2 2011    

    * AFC1030: Introduction to financial accounting
    * AFC2140: Corporate finance
    * BTC1110: Business law
    * MGC1010: Introduction to management

Cheers!

[methodsman]

It's recommended you do ECC1000 before you take ECC1100. I suggest swapping MGC1010 in position of ECC1100.

[lynt.br]

Also fair warning, from personal experience MGC1010 may make you ragequit commerce.

[riv]

Also fair warning, from personal experience MGC1010 may make you ragequit commerce.

What's so bad about MGC1010? Would you mind sharing your personal experience...

[lynt.br]

Also fair warning, from personal experience MGC1010 may make you ragequit commerce.

What's so bad about MGC1010? Would you mind sharing your personal experience...

It's like a dilbert comic without the satire. Have fun memorisng the six steps of decision making.

The subject is basically every negative stereotype about management in one subject. It's entirely theoretical, everything you learn is common sense and you get stupid 2500 word essays (which must be fully cited) on the difference between leaders and managers...

[_avO]

Also fair warning, from personal experience MGC1010 may make you ragequit commerce.

What's so bad about MGC1010? Would you mind sharing your personal experience...

It's like a dilbert comic without the satire. Have fun memorisng the six steps of decision making.

The subject is basically every negative stereotype about management in one subject. It's entirely theoretical, everything you learn is common sense and you get stupid 2500 word essays (which must be fully cited) on the difference between leaders and managers...

Wow.. not looking forward to that! sounds like VCE BM though so I doubt it would be very difficult

[lynt.br]

It's not hard at all. It's been my highest mark in uni so far and I only turned up to about 50% of lectures, did barely any study besides skim reading the textbook and about 3-4 days of intensive cramming before the exam. It's just boring as all hell.

[IntoTheNewWorld]

Also fair warning, from personal experience MGC1010 may make you ragequit commerce.

like me.

[kakar0t]

Haha, so would you recommend doing marketing instead?

[TrueTears]

do micro first then macro in another semester, marketing is shit easy you can do that whenever you want

[riv]

From the compulsary commerce subjects, which one is the hardest?

[Fyrefly]

Yeah, switch macro and management around.

Push macro back because you sort of need a good foundation in micro to do well in macro; bring management forward because it's an unbelievably, mind-numbingly boring subject where the enthusiasm of a jaffy is needed if you've **any** chance of rocking up to class.

[Fyrefly]

From the compulsary commerce subjects, which one is the hardest?

The general consensus is Business Law.
My transcript agrees.

I found Business Law to be very interesting but, yes, the most difficult first year subject I've taken.

[kakar0t]

What is everyones opinions on this subject:
    * ETC1000: Business and economic statistics

should i do it in sem1? If not, what should i swap it with?

[methodsman]

What is everyones opinions on this subject:
    * ETC1000: Business and economic statistics

should i do it in sem1? If not, what should i swap it with?

Fairly easy. Easy to understand the concepts since you only need the basics of methods probability. I reckon save it for later (maybe sem2) if you're doing marketing, management or microeconomics in sem1.

IMO balance out the easy subjects with the harder ones like acc + finance, bus law, financial accounting (if majoring in accounting).

Btw, I think that financial accounting and business law together in one semester is a lethal combination (unless you're a gun at these subjects)