Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours)

This major is designed to prepare you for membership with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) Australia.

Courses cover advanced topics, including:

• financial reporting and strategy
• business analysis
• environment and methodology of auditing
• costing systems and cost management
• commercial and taxation law.

The integrative major capstone course will give you insight into how accounting strategy supports organisations achieve their strategic ambitions.

See the Accounting major

The analytics revolution has fundamentally changed business. The Business Analytics major will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to participate in and, indeed, lead the revolution.

You’ll see how analytics is applied to all areas of business, from improving business decision making and organisational processes to strategy making.

The courses in this major cover the powerful tools used by business analysts and data scientists, including data visualisation, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and machine learning and deep learning.

You'll also look at case studies from across the applied business disciplines, including accounting, finance, human resource management and marketing.

Learning how to solve real problems, the project-based capstone within the Business Analytics major uses live case studies from participating businesses. Working closely with academic support and industry decision makers, you’ll work on a project and write and present your project findings to an audience including industry representatives.

See the Business Analytics major

This major will prepare you for a career as an expert business analyst who knows how to combine IT resources with business needs.

You will learn how to first gather requirements, and then to design, implement and manage IT systems to enhance business decision making.

This major covers topics including lean thinking, business data and business processes.

See the Business Information Systems major

This major is for anyone who wants to work in banking and finance, investment and portfolio management, corporate finance, risk assessment or business analysis.

It will teach you to use research methods to understand financial problems, as well as debt and equity capital markets, funds management, real estate as an asset class, and private equity.

You’ll gain an understanding of behavioural finance, and how this underpins financial decision-making, including trading strategies, investment decisions, managerial behaviour, and institutional frictions that influence economic outcomes.

Graduates enjoy careers in corporate finance, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and management and financial consulting.

See the Finance major

Many organisations say their people are their greatest asset. Human Resources helps take this statement from aspiration to reality.

This major focuses on all aspects of people management. It will help you develop an understanding of motivation at work, how HR functions identify talent to match the needs of the business, and how organisations ensure that employees gain the competence required for their roles.

You'll study topics including:

• employment relations and workplace conflict
• selection and recruitment
• organisational change
• performance management
• leadership.

This major covers Australian and international industrial relations and the legal, ethical and evidence-based approaches that underpin decisions about people and stakeholders in organisations. You’ll also develop skills in communication and contract negotiation.

This major will prepare you for a career as an HR manager or consultant in a huge range of industries, designing interventions to support productivity, change or growth, leading (global) teams, and partnering with senior executives to provide advice to boards.

This major is accredited by the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) and you'll be eligible for the AHRI associate student membership for the duration of your studies.

See the Human Resources major

This major will show you how to take a new idea to market by building a new business from the ground up.

You'll first be introduced to basic principles of innovation and entrepreneurship, including the entrepreneurial mindset and process. Then, you'll apply this knowledge in practical courses on digital innovation, social entrepreneurship and growth strategies, as well as technology and innovation management.

Through leadership development you will become a resourceful, creative and resilient innovation leader who delivers sustainable commercial and social value.

Further extending your skill set, you’ll engage directly in a short placement or consulting project in a startup or commercial partner project.

There will also be the option to develop and grow your own business in an incubator or accelerator within the UQ entrepreneurship ecosystem or beyond.

These deep immersion experiences will move you closer to commercially viable business solutions while establishing valuable networks with potential partners, investors, entrepreneurs and mentors.

See the Innovation and Entrepreneurship major

This major will prepare you to work in any business with global operations, or any business that wants to expand.

You'll learn how local conditions can affect global business operations. Plus, you'll study key issues including international trade and investment, international marketing, and how firms operate when they engage in international business, finance and strategy.

In the integrative major capstone course, you will work in teams to evaluate a firm’s business and corporate level strategies, identify issues and ethical implications, and evaluate alternative courses of action.  

This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of businesses, government agencies or trade associations.

See the International Business major

This major will develop you into a dynamic marketing professional.

You'll study marketing strategy and customer behaviour, including how personality, lifestyle and culture affect purchasing decisions.

Your courses will teach you how to create value through brand management, service and relationship management, and digital and market research strategy. You’ll also gain insight into how advertising management operates in the context of artificial intelligence, ethics and micro-targeting.

The integrated major capstone course will help you gain a deeper understanding of the strategic marketing ambitions of organisations, and how customers are central to enterprise success and revenue generation.

Studying this major will prepare you to work in a huge range of marketing teams in industries including tourism, arts and entertainment, sales and retail, and not-for-profit agencies.

See the Marketing major

This major is designed to prepare you for membership with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and Certified Practising Accountant (CPA) Australia.

Courses cover advanced topics, including:

• financial reporting and strategy
• business analysis
• environment and methodology of auditing
• costing systems and cost management
• commercial and taxation law.

The integrative major capstone course will give you insight into how accounting strategy supports organisations achieve their strategic ambitions.

See the Accounting major

The analytics revolution has fundamentally changed business. The Business Analytics major will provide you with the knowledge and skills needed to participate in and, indeed, lead the revolution.

You’ll see how analytics is applied to all areas of business, from improving business decision making and organisational processes to strategy making.

The courses in this major cover the powerful tools used by business analysts and data scientists, including data visualisation, predictive and prescriptive analytics, and machine learning and deep learning.

You'll also look at case studies from across the applied business disciplines, including accounting, finance, human resource management and marketing.

Learning how to solve real problems, the project-based capstone within the Business Analytics major uses live case studies from participating businesses. Working closely with academic support and industry decision makers, you’ll work on a project and write and present your project findings to an audience including industry representatives.

See the Business Analytics major

This major will prepare you for a career as an expert business analyst who knows how to combine IT resources with business needs.

You will learn how to first gather requirements, and then to design, implement and manage IT systems to enhance business decision making.

This major covers topics including lean thinking, business data and business processes.

See the Business Information Systems major

This major is for anyone who wants to work in banking and finance, investment and portfolio management, corporate finance, risk assessment or business analysis.

It will teach you to use research methods to understand financial problems, as well as debt and equity capital markets, funds management, real estate as an asset class, and private equity.

You’ll gain an understanding of behavioural finance, and how this underpins financial decision-making, including trading strategies, investment decisions, managerial behaviour, and institutional frictions that influence economic outcomes.

Graduates enjoy careers in corporate finance, investment banking, mergers and acquisitions, and management and financial consulting.

See the Finance major

Many organisations say their people are their greatest asset. Human Resources helps take this statement from aspiration to reality.

This major focuses on all aspects of people management. It will help you develop an understanding of motivation at work, how HR functions identify talent to match the needs of the business, and how organisations ensure that employees gain the competence required for their roles.

You'll study topics including:

• employment relations and workplace conflict
• selection and recruitment
• organisational change
• performance management
• leadership.

This major covers Australian and international industrial relations and the legal, ethical and evidence-based approaches that underpin decisions about people and stakeholders in organisations. You’ll also develop skills in communication and contract negotiation.

This major will prepare you for a career as an HR manager or consultant in a huge range of industries, designing interventions to support productivity, change or growth, leading (global) teams, and partnering with senior executives to provide advice to boards.

This major is accredited by the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) and you'll be eligible for the AHRI associate student membership for the duration of your studies.

See the Human Resources major

This major will show you how to take a new idea to market by building a new business from the ground up.

You'll first be introduced to basic principles of innovation and entrepreneurship, including the entrepreneurial mindset and process. Then, you'll apply this knowledge in practical courses on digital innovation, social entrepreneurship and growth strategies, as well as technology and innovation management.

Through leadership development you will become a resourceful, creative and resilient innovation leader who delivers sustainable commercial and social value.

Further extending your skill set, you’ll engage directly in a short placement or consulting project in a startup or commercial partner project.

There will also be the option to develop and grow your own business in an incubator or accelerator within the UQ entrepreneurship ecosystem or beyond.

These deep immersion experiences will move you closer to commercially viable business solutions while establishing valuable networks with potential partners, investors, entrepreneurs and mentors.

See the Innovation and Entrepreneurship major

This major will prepare you to work in any business with global operations, or any business that wants to expand.

You'll learn how local conditions can affect global business operations. Plus, you'll study key issues including international trade and investment, international marketing, and how firms operate when they engage in international business, finance and strategy.

In the integrative major capstone course, you will work in teams to evaluate a firm’s business and corporate level strategies, identify issues and ethical implications, and evaluate alternative courses of action.  

This major will prepare you for a career in a huge range of businesses, government agencies or trade associations.

See the International Business major

This major will develop you into a dynamic marketing professional.

You'll study marketing strategy and customer behaviour, including how personality, lifestyle and culture affect purchasing decisions.

Your courses will teach you how to create value through brand management, service and relationship management, and digital and market research strategy. You’ll also gain insight into how advertising management operates in the context of artificial intelligence, ethics and micro-targeting.

The integrated major capstone course will help you gain a deeper understanding of the strategic marketing ambitions of organisations, and how customers are central to enterprise success and revenue generation.

Studying this major will prepare you to work in a huge range of marketing teams in industries including tourism, arts and entertainment, sales and retail, and not-for-profit agencies.

See the Marketing major