Admission and Unit Information - Master of Business and Commerce

The unit serves as an introduction to human resource management for those considering careers in employment relations and those who will potentially have people management responsibilities. HR processes and practices are studied in contexts and with a consideration of the interests of stakeholders, leading to an appreciation of the contribution of human resource management to organisational success. Students will evaluate particular approaches to human resource management through analysing real-world cases and practical activities.

This unit explores the skills of managers and their effect on organisational leadership. The contemporary organisations in which we work bring together a complex array of relationships and processes that require ongoing development of a broad range of skills for the manager. Management and leadership, and the skills required for both, are not seen as separate in this unit. This unit focuses on building the skills which will best prepare managers and leaders for dynamic and changing organisational environments.

Accounting: A Business Perspective focuses on the analytical uses of accounting information by managers. It emphasizes the role of both financial and management accounting in measuring, processing and communicating information that is useful in making economic decisions

The nature of accounting requires the first unit in accounting to attend to the process and system, which represents what accountants do. Many of the most difficult theoretical, conceptual and practical problems encountered by accountants originate in the basic model A=O+E and the necessity of making data and events conform to that model. Concepts and principles in accounting ultimately must face the test of procedure and relate to the systematic processing of the data. Introduction to accounting regulation and ethics.

This unit introduces students to marketing from a holistic point of view which considers social, economic and organisational marketing systems. The unit also covers the evolution of marketing environments and the corresponding adaptations to marketing. Further emphasis is given to business's capacities to engage in markets and therefore consider areas such as risk management, governance and financial assessments. This unit exposes students to the systematic and analytical approaches expected from them in postgraduate studies in marketing.

This unit concentrates on both Microeconomic and Macroeconomic theories. Microeconomics is concerned with the study of individual units within the economy - the individual consumer, the individual firm, the type of market structure facing the firm and price and output determination. Macroeconomics is concerned with analysis of the factors determining the way in which the economic resources of an economy are utilised or under-utilised.