Subjects overview
This program can be completed in 2 years (6 semesters)
Required Subjects
Students must complete the following one hundred and eighty credit points (180CP) of subjects.
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ACCT71-100: Accounting Principles (10CP)
This subject introduces students to accounting concepts, procedures, and influences under which basic financial statements are prepared, and focuses on how financial and business information is used for decision-making by various stakeholders. Students are also introduced to concepts of governance, social responsibility, business ethics, and the ethical standards expected of accountants, and they will integrate this knowledge to make decisions and solve problems in a range of complex, contemporary business situations. The use of both manual and computerised accounting systems is explored, and the use of other contemporary business software platforms will develop technology skills which are fundamental to accounting practice.
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ACCT71-102: Management Accounting (10CP)
This subject is designed to develop advanced management accounting skills to address the contemporary business environment imperatives of customer value, technology driven solutions and knowledge-based organisations. The first part of this subject provides students with a framework for analysing a business’s unique cost and revenue structures, to facilitate managerial planning and control decisions. The second part of this subject focuses on the achievement of business objectives in today’s dynamic and complex business environments. Focus is on the strategic implications of managerial accounting information and the essentials of integrating external and internal factors into managerial decision making.
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ACCT71-202: Financial Accounting and Company Reporting (10CP)
This subject provides an in-depth study of the regulation, concepts, applicable standards and processes relevant to financial accounting and reporting. Emphasis is on the integration and critical application of accounting principles, regulation and the applicable standards that underpin the preparation of general purpose financial statements. This subject is useful to students pursuing careers in which a critical understanding of the application of International Reporting Financial Standards from both a preparer and user perspective is beneficial.
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ACCT71-203: Taxation Practice for Accountants (10CP)
This subject provides an overview of the Australian taxation system and the conceptual framework in which it operates. The topics include essential areas of taxation that are most frequently dealt with by accountants working in tax practice, including compliance with statutory and professional obligations, critically analysing real world problems and providing expert judgment. The subject is designed around an applied approach to learning that focuses on authentic professional tasks and situations.
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ACCT71-211: Accounting Information Systems (10CP)
Information technology is an essential accounting tool. Amongst other applications, it is used to automate transactions and business processes, streamline reporting and support business analysis. This subject covers the critical evaluation and design of accounting information systems (AIS) and their use in complex managerial decision-making. It provides both a theoretical and practical understanding of AIS in a broader industry and corporate setting. Emphasis is placed on the integrated nature of AIS and technology, control mechanisms, data analysis and reporting. The applied nature of the subject enables the development of advanced practical skills in using accounting software for transaction processing and decision support.
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ACCT71-303: Advanced Financial Accounting and Reporting (10CP)
This subject focuses on advanced issues pertaining to the preparation of financial statements by reporting entities. The subject also provides a critical examination of the theories underpinning accounting practice and its professional standards. The aim is to develop a high level understanding of the rationale underlying accounting principles and standards. The integration of advanced theoretical and technical knowledge related to contemporary practices regarding accounting standards and their application is emphasised.
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ACCT71-305: Auditing (10CP)
This subject introduces the principles and practices of external auditing in the public accounting domain within the framework of Australian and International Auditing Standards. This subject focuses on the critical analysis and application of the audit risk model, auditing standards and each phase of the audit process. Emphasis is also placed on ethical considerations, independence and corporate governance relevant to the practice of external auditing of corporate financial statements.
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ACCT71-306: Data Analytics for Accountants (10CP)
Data analytic skills are core for accounting practitioners in our data-intensive business environment. In this subject, we build on advanced data and analysis concepts to develop an analytical mindset where students learn to frame complex managerial questions, assemble the data, compute relevant metrics and models, identify actionable insights, and design effective and efficient communication of the outcomes. Students explore and apply these skills in a variety of contexts, including management accounting, tax, audit and assurance, and financial statement analytics to develop practical skills in working with multiple analytics tools and develop skills in critically evaluating which tool is best suited for a particular problem or question. Finally, students will explore how to best interpret and communicate the results from data analytic procedures using visualisations.
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BMBA70-810: Individuals, Teams and Leadership (5CP)
This intensive MBA subject provides a review of the theory, evidence and practice of effective teams and how they are created. It also uses the team context to examine the process of leadership and explores its adaptation to other organisational contexts. Students will learn to apply these principles to the creation and development of their teams and reflect on ways to become a more effective team member and leader.
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BMBA70-820: Interpersonal Dynamics (5CP)
This intensive MBA subject explores the interpersonal dynamics of groups and organisations, with a specific emphasis on effective communication, empathy, understanding and using power and other social and psychological factors affecting relationships.
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BMBA70-830: Effective Decision Making (5CP)
Decision-making is one of the key tasks of a manager. This intensive MBA subject offers a multi-disciplinary perspective on decision-making, with a specific emphasis on ethical, responsible and sustainable considerations for effective decisions. The subject will also explore obstacles and common mistakes to effective decision-making and approaches for overcoming them.
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BMBA70-840: Motivation and Organisation (5CP)
Motivation is a central concept to individual and collective learning and performance. In this intensive MBA subject, students will examine the nature of motivation to more effectively influence individual and collective behaviour. Specific organisational applications of motivation theory will be examined in detail so that students learn to evaluate approaches to employee motivation and to understand how individual and contextual factors interact to affect human effectiveness and well-being.
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BMBA70-850: Managerial Economics (5CP)
This subject is designed to enable students to analyse economic environments and to develop an understanding of the value of economic reasoning to evaluate strategic business decisions. It is also intended to provide an opportunity to apply this understanding to develop fundamental economic analysis and evaluation skills to support managerial decision making.
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BMBA70-860: Marketing for Managers (5CP)
In today’s business world, creating customer value through marketing is essential to a company’s growth strategy. Marketing involves several interrelated processes like understanding the business environment, conducting market research, analysing customer needs and finally providing customer value through the 4Ps strategy (product, price, place and promotion). This subject is designed to enable students to develop a concise understanding of marketing principles and concepts. Students can further apply evidence based knowledge to find solutions to real-world marketing problems.
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BMBA70-870: Accounting for Managers (5CP)
This subject is designed to develop students’ managerial financial literacy and decision-making skills. It is organised around three sets of accounting fundamentals: financial reporting mechanics; measurement; and management. The main objective is to enable students to understand, decompose and interpret financial statements to assess a firm’s business model, operating performance and overall financial health.
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BMBA70-880: Financial Decision Making (5CP)
This intensive MBA subject is designed to enable students to recognise corporate financial problems and opportunities, communicate effectively with finance professionals and participate fully in financial decision making. This subject addresses the key decisions faced by senior managers: determining optimum capital structure, managing financial risk and valuing business opportunities. The primary objective of this subject is to develop analytical frameworks and practical skills through the use of readings, cases, lectures, discussions and role-plays.
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BMBA71-301: Data Analytics for Decision Making (10CP)
This subject develops the student’s facility for evidence-based decision making, by introducing students to the use and application of data. As the business world has increasing access to data, and in the availability of big data sets which allow greater understanding of customers and other business related data, effective use of the data will enable decisions to become more informed. This subject will consider the role of data in an evolving business system, discuss and review common sources of data and processes for developing superior data sets, and will introduce the quantitative methods that are needed for understanding what the data tells us re the decision we need to make. It develops an understanding of modern computational methods to solve quantitative problems in business decision making, using a case-based approach to using data.
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BMBA71-302: Strategic Insight (10CP)
Strategic Insight is the capstone subject concentrating on strategy development and implementation at the top management level where major decisions are made. Advanced problems in determination, execution, and control of the strategic management process in light of complex environmental change will be focused on in this subject. The aim of the subject is to provide students with a broad overview of the basic concepts in strategic management. Students will be exposed to a number of frameworks and models to better understand and analyse the macro-environment, the industry environment and firm-level resources. At the completion of the subject, students should be able to think strategically, as opposed to only having a functional orientation and students should be able to formulate and to implement creative and innovative strategies that are conducive to the demands of the firm and the environment in which it resides.
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BMBA71-303: MBA Capstone (10CP)
In this capstone subject, you will examine a large-scale, complex issue that requires considerable independent study and broad, integrated application of what you have learned in the MBA program to date. Your research project can address an organisational problem or opportunity encountered professionally or a conceptual issue encountered academically. In consultation with the subject coordinator and a chosen academic mentor, you are expected to identify and clearly define the ‘problem’; integrate and apply relevant theory; collect and analyse appropriate data; and formulate reasonable, evidence-based conclusions. The expected deliverables are a professional written and formatted report detailing all aspects of the project and an executive presentation of key elements.
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FINC71-101: Fundamentals of Finance (10CP)
This subject introduces the analytical approaches used by managers when making financial decisions. Core topics include the time value of money, the relationship between risk and return (i.e., CAPM), portfolio theory (i.e., diversification), and capital structure. On successful completion of the subject, students will be able to apply these concepts to value both stocks and bonds, estimate the cost of capital and implement discounted cash flow techniques in order to make capital budgeting decisions. Students will also gain exposure to real-time market data via the Bloomberg database.
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LAWS71-100: Business Law (10CP)
Business Law is a subject offered by the Faculty of Law for Bond Business School students and other non-law students. The subject provides an introduction to the law regulating business in Australia today. It seeks to develop students' knowledge and understanding of the Australian legal system and sources of law in Australia, the commercial legal responsibilities and risks of doing business, key aspects of the law of torts, contracts and consumer protection, and the law associated with starting, managing, financing and closing companies and other business entities. By focusing on the legal responsibilities and risks that have a substantial impact on business, the subject highlights the important role that law plays in business decision-making.
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MGMT71-326: Project Innovation and Change (10CP)
This subject immerses students in a practical, user-centric approach for the creative, evidence-based resolution of problems. This iterative, collaborative process draws heavily from design thinking and is applicable to a broad array of societal, organisational and project challenges. Key elements include a focus on understanding and empathising with the user, challenging assumptions, considering multiple perspectives, generating and exploring creative ideas, making and learning from mistakes, questioning implications and adaptively planning the implementation of validated solutions. It is a way of thinking and working as well as a collection of hands-on methods, and is especially useful in addressing problems that are ill-defined, complex or unknown, leading to innovative change. The approach can help project teams learn faster and achieve more effective and creative outcomes, while reducing the risks associated with launching new ideas or implementing change initiatives. This subject is open to all disciplines and programs to support the interdisciplinary problem-solving nature of this approach.
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Take the guess work out of planning your study schedule. Your program's study plan has been carefully curated to provide a clear guide on the sequential subjects to be studied in each semester of your program. Your study plan is designed around connected subject themes to equip you with the fundamental knowledge required as you progress through your course.
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