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Units you can study
Choose from the undergraduate or postgraduate options on offer across a range of business disciplines. As long as you meet the prerequisites, you can choose subjects from any of our discipline areas to suit your interests.
Most units have a lecture and a tutorial each week. Lectures and tutorials for postgraduate units are usually held in the evenings.
Approved units
All students can study these units, regardless of your academic background. These units will be approved on your QUT study plan after you apply.
Accountancy
AYN456 Business and Corporations Law
As many business decisions involve consideration of business and corporate law, as a postgraduate accounting graduate, you will be expected to possess a functional understanding of Australia's legal system. Knowledge of business and company law will equip you with skills for professional practice and enhance your ability to navigate increasingly complex business landscapes. This unit introduces you to Australia's legal environment, developing your knowledge and understanding of core principles of law, while also introducing basic research and analysis skills essential to effective and ethically responsible decision-making in business.
Economics and finance
EFN405 Applied Economics
The economic framework in this introductory unit provides students with a broad understanding of the economic forces that impact business and government, equipping them with knowledge, technical and problem solving skills that they will continue to develop and apply in later units where more complex situations and issues are explored. The unit provides an introduction to both microeconomic and macroeconomic key concepts.
EFN406 Managerial Finance
This is an introductory unit complementary to EFN425 and EFN420. This unit gives students an essential grounding in applied finance, addressing fundamental issues of how we can use finance in a commercial sense and how this impacts critical organisational and managerial decisions in an increasingly complex and demanding financial environment. Subsequent units in this course will build on the knowledge introduced in this unit.
EFN420 Data Analysis for Financial Managers
The field of finance is broad and dynamic. It directly affects the lives of every person and every organisation, financial or non-financial, private or public, large or small, profit-maximising or not-for-profit. In order to make optimal financial decisions, some basic financial skills are necessary. This unit introduces students to key knowledge and skills necessary for financial managers functioning in an increasingly complex and demanding environment. Subsequent units will build on and extend the knowledge and skills gained in this unit.
Management
MGB232 Managing Performance and Rewards
Performance and reward management is a key functional area of HRM and is of critical importance in supporting organisations to maintain a competitive advantage. Therefore, it is imperative that you understand the strategic framework and the underlying psychological principles that maximise employee performance. This unit contributes significantly to your understanding of people management, your HR diagnostic skills and your ability to develop HR policies and procedures to support employee, managerial and organisational effectiveness.
MGB234 Managing Knowledge, Innovation, and Creativity
Managing knowledge and innovation are key drivers of success for many of today's firms and ventures and are integral to an organisation's ability to survive and thrive in a dynamic and competitive marketplace. The purpose of Managing Knowledge & Innovation is to extend your understanding of the human and technical systems of organisations by focusing on how information and knowledge can be harnessed for innovation and competitive advantage. With a focus on the theories and frameworks to inform decisions for organising human and technical systems, this unit develops your understanding of the meso-level responsibilities of management, and parallels.
MGB235 Monitoring and Managing Operational Performance
The production of goods or services is the core activity of all organisations, irrespective of whether the organisation is part of the private sector, the public sector, or the not-for-profit sector. The operational performance of organisations is only made possible by the integrated support of other functional and administrative areas of the organisation. It is essential that you gain an understanding of the central issues of how operations produce organisational outputs, and how other functional and administrative areas contribute to the performance of this core activity. Monitoring and Managing Operational Performance focuses on providing you with a "manager's toolkit" for identifying, monitoring and enhancing the operational performance of organisations' socio-technical systems. By focusing on management tools, you will develop a critical awareness of the interdependence of human, technical, competitive, and financial domains of control.
MGB236 Identifying and Managing Risk
Developing an understanding of risk management, in theory and practice, is essential for ensuring resilient and sustainable organisations. Effective risk management outcomes result from the analysis of uncertainties embedded in human knowledge, systems of management and processes in commerce, and from implementing mitigation strategies generated to address these factors. This unit seeks to develop students managerial toolkit with current Risk Management models and current national and international risk standards. All forms of organisations face and manage risk in different ways, and this unit shares insights for managing risk in an array of private, public, and entrepreneurial contexts.
MGN448 Negotiating Across Borders
In the contemporary global business environment, negotiators who understand how culture affects negotiating processes and outcomes have a decided advantage at the bargaining table. The purpose of this unit is to help you understand and apply the theory and processes of negotiation.
Units requiring approval
Students need specific academic background knowledge to study these units, so the QUT Business School will assess your eligibility and determine if you’re able to take these units after you apply. We will let you know the outcome through the application portal as soon as possible.
Accountancy
AYN411 Audit and Assurance Services
In this unit, you will deepen your understanding of the audit and assurance function and its role in supporting accountability and decision-making in complex business environments. As a final-year student, you’ll consolidate your technical and professional capabilities by applying knowledge from earlier accounting units to evaluate audit risk, assess internal controls, and interpret audit evidence in line with professional and ethical standards. This unit also strengthens your digital capabilities and will cover the responsible use of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, enhancing your readiness for assurance-related roles in a digitally evolving profession.
AYN414 Cost and Management Accounting
The objective of management accounting is to deliver effective business insights to help managers of organisations achieve the strategic goals of their firm. In this unit, you will learn to evaluate data and perform analytical techniques that support decisions, such as costing a firm's products or services, budgeting, and performance management, with consideration for long-term value creation and sustainable organisational practices.
AYN417 Corporate Accounting
A large number of entities are companies rather than, for example, sole traders. Accordingly, a significant amount of the work you will undertake as a practitioner will involve accounting for companies. In your role as an accountant, you will be required to interpret and apply accounting standards and other statutory requirements governing the accounting procedures reflected in the content of a company's financial reports. In this unit, you will integrate and apply academic accounting knowledge to solving problems that arise in practice, thereby developing the knowledge and skills needed to prepare financial reports for companies. This unit builds on the foundational knowledge acquired from your prerequisite studies by applying accounting principles to complex company accounting issues. It also provides a foundation for subsequent units, which develop your critical analytical skills through an examination of theoretical accounting issues, accounting regulation and practice.
AYN438 Taxation Law and Practice
This unit builds on your previous knowledge of Business and Corporations Law to introduce the statutory framework of the Australian taxation system. Elements in the determination of taxable income and the levying of income tax are examined, including general and specific categories of assessable income and allowable deductions, capital gains tax, and administration aspects of the tax system. The unit also provides you with a brief overview of the taxation of partnerships, trusts, and companies, the goods and services tax (GST), and fringe benefits tax (FBT). Emphasis is placed on developing your practical and problem-solving skills through the application, research and analysis of taxation legislation and lodgement software, individually and in teams.
Enrolment restrictions
- Postgraduate students can't enrol in:
- first-year undergraduate core units (BSB-coded units, AYB114, AYB115, EFB106)
- postgraduate honours-level units, which change from year to year.
- Enrolment in capstone units is generally not allowed, as these units require extended knowledge gained throughout the course of a full degree.
- Master of Business (MBA) units have specific additional entry requirements, including a GMAT score and work experience.
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