Gain in-depth knowledge of accounting, financial management, banking and business analytics, along with an understanding of how people make decisions and organise societies, and how to predict human behaviour. By combining two areas of study in this dual degree program, you'll gain the essential skills and understanding of commerce, along with the broad knowledge and human insights found in the field in economics. During your commerce studies you'll complete a range of compulsory courses that cover concepts relevant across the financial services sector, including topics such as accounting, business information systems, business analytics and finance. You'll gain a combination of core and specialist knowledge, and the skills to apply what you've learned wherever your career takes you. With the economics program you'll challenge your personal thinking and current ideas of people and the world, learning how economics is central to decision-making in business, markets, trade, government, health and more. You'll undertake a variety of courses that will build your knowledge about key economic principles, theories and tools, and study topics including microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics.
Accounting is a dynamic profession that is concerned with so much more than just number crunching. As an accountant, you will develop the skills to provide professional advice to managers in industry, government and the not-for-profit sector on issues such as organisational performance, capital structure, and how best to communicate financial as well as non-financial data to interested stakeholders. As a graduate from the Business School at the University of Queensland, you will be eligible for professional recognition from ACCA, CPA Australia, the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ) and the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA). Study accounting and build the foundations for a life-long, rewarding career.
