Our business core will give you a solid foundation in business theory and practice, ensuring you graduate with the skills needed to thrive in the business world. During these foundational units, you will explore value creation in business, learn to use financial information to make informed and responsible decisions, and develop your business intelligence and analytical capabilities to interpret data in a meaningful way
Markets and Legal Frameworks
You’ll explore how key business disciplines are connected and understand the relationship between a business enterprise and stakeholders including government, customers and the broader community. You’ll also identify the laws and regulations applied to businesses, and learn how business and marketing strategies can impact society and the environment.
Communication Culture and Indigenous Perspectives in Business
You’ll develop an awareness of responsible business practices, and cultural, academic and professional integrity in business. These perspectives will help you in business communications and making business decisions.
Financial Decision Making
You’ll develop the skills and knowledge needed to make informed and responsible decisions using accounting and financial information. You’ll explore basic accounting and financial terminologies, learn how to interpret financial statements and make investment decisions.
Strategic Career Design
You’ll discover the impact of changes in the global labour market and social trends, and how technological innovation will affect career opportunities and the future of work. These changes have implications for individual and organisational career management strategies, and personal and professional branding in a digitised global economy.
Analytics for Decision Making
You’ll learn basic data analysis to derive essential information from numerical, textual and visual datasets. As well as understanding the legal and ethical issues related to the collection and use of data, you’ll examine case study data sets from a range of business disciplines, communicate your findings to an audience and make recommendations based on your analyses.