This course offers a thorough examination of the problems managers face in a world that is changing quickly, including corporate social responsibility, new types of labor, growing workplace diversity, and climate change. In order to demonstrate how best practice managerial practices can enhance corporate environmental outcomes, financial performance, and create new business prospects, contemporary ethical and environmental challenges are investigated. Students will get the chance to put their extensive theoretical and technical expertise to use in creating and expressing solutions to challenging issues. Additionally, students will study some western moral theory and put it to use in an organizational setting.

Covered Units: 

1. Introducing business ethics
2. Business ethics in context: CSR stakeholders and citizenship
   Global trends and their effects on company strategy, accountability, and values
3. Citizenship and CSR stakeholders in the context of business ethics – A review on business ethics
4. Business ethics decision-making: Descriptive ethical theories
5. Corporate accountability, social responsibility, performance, and responsiveness – In charge of business ethics

Course Code: BES113        Credits: 5

This course aims to increase students’ awareness of the value of learning in organizations. It helps students to assess organizational strategies that support learning in organizations as well as the individual and group learning processes. The topic emphasizes the connection between learning and the larger strategic and sociocultural contexts of organizations by merging current Organizational Learning and Learning Organization views. Practically speaking, the course helps students improve their ability to study for both academic and professional goals.

Covered Units:

1. A description of learning organizations and organizational learning.
2. Individual & collective learning theories. (How people learn and how their brains work).
3. Types and styles of learning (How
   learning happens and the best ways to
   learn).
4. The individual as agent of organisational
   learning.
5. Organisation. Knowledge organisations
   and organisational knowledge.
6. Managing learning and knowledge
   through systems, people and technology.
7. Learning organisation.
8. Leadership, ethics and learning.
9. a plan, a shift, and education

Course Code: TLO114           Credits: 5

The theoretical and analytical methods pertinent to the administration of Australian financial institutions in a global economy are introduced in this course. It looks at the main financial risks that Australian banks face, how these risks are measured and managed, and government interventions.

Covered Units:

1. Overview of the current financial system
2. Commercial banks – activities, regulation
   and controls
3. Non-bank financial institutions – their roles
   and characteristics
4. The share market and the corporation
5. Corporations issuing equity in the share
   market – funding alternatives
6. Short-term debt – nature and structure
7. Medium to long-term debt – types and
   features
8. International debt markets and credit rating
   agencies
9. Foreign exchange – factors which influence
   the exchange rate
10. Interest rate swaps, cross-currency swaps
    and credit default swaps

Course Code: BAF115      Credits: 5

From a legal standpoint, the course offers a thorough overview of the Australian taxation system. The fundamental components of the Australian direct and indirect taxation systems are covered, along with the fundamentals of income taxation and deduction rules, timing issues in taxation, capital gains tax regulations, fringe benefit taxes, superannuation tax regulations, the goods and services tax, significant state taxes like stamp duty, and an introduction to tax administration.

Covered units: 

1. Introduction to the tax system
2. Income, residence and source
3. money earned through personal labor, money from property, and money from a business
4. Goods and services tax (GST) and Fringe benefits tax (FBT)
5. Capital gains tax (CGT)
6. Specific deductions

Course Code: TAL116        Credit: 5