Help!Choosing 2nd year B.Comm optional subjects

lukiej

hi,
i am about to register for 2nd year b.comm and have to choose 2 optional subjects. I dont really know much about them. Would anyone be able to fill me in on what each one is like if they have chosen them in previous years?

The following are the choices: Financial Accounting I, Comparative Economic Thought, Cost Benefit Analysis, Introduction to Financial Economics, Consumer Behaviour, Information Systems Management, Advanced Statistical Methods for Business, Management of Organisational Change, Quality Management.

I a leniency towards economics as it is my favorite so far.
Would be great to hear what each subject is like, whats involved, difficulty, career paths etc.
thanks

narwog81

if you wish to go the charterted accountancy route after the bComm then Financial Accounting I would be a good choice, as far as i know to get the full exemptions from the professional exams you need to do the following subjects during the bComm:

business finance, 2nd year (mandatory)
Fin Acc I, II, III 2nd/3rd year
Man Acc I, II , III 2nd/3rd year (Man Acc I mandatory)
Taxation I, II 3rd year

also there is a law exam that can be taken externally.

Myself, im actually going into 3rd year, last year i took Consumer Behaviour and Man. of Organisational Change.

Both i found relativley easy compared to some of the more technical subjects, i got 71% in both actually.

Consumer behaviour is basically an extension of your 1st year marketing. Last year 40% of the course was examined by a workbook. Basically after each lecture you would have to work on a case study or answer theory questions. Good idea bt if you take the subject make sure you actually work on it throughout the semester and not leave it to the last weekend as i did and nearly killed myself getting it in. Its a popular option as its seen to be handy and i'd estimate nearly 75% of my class took it.

Managment of Organisational Change again will be very similar to the Organisational Behaviour module in Semester 1. Michael Campion will probably be lecturing this. again 40% of the course is assessed by a group project and the exam is straightforward enough.

I plan on taking mainly HR options for final year and doing a masters in HR/Org behaviour.

Hope that helps. If you have any other questions about 2nd year fire away!

lukiej

narwog81 wrote: »

if you wish to go the charterted accountancy route after the bComm then Financial Accounting I would be a good choice, as far as i know to get the full exemptions from the professional exams you need to do the following subjects during the bComm:

business finance, 2nd year (mandatory)
Fin Acc I, II, III 2nd/3rd year
Man Acc I, II , III 2nd/3rd year (Man Acc I mandatory)
Taxation I, II 3rd year

also there is a law exam that can be taken externally.

Myself, im actually going into 3rd year, last year i took Consumer Behaviour and Man. of Organisational Change.

Both i found relativley easy compared to some of the more technical subjects, i got 71% in both actually.

Consumer behaviour is basically an extension of your 1st year marketing. Last year 40% of the course was examined by a workbook. Basically after each lecture you would have to work on a case study or answer theory questions. Good idea bt if you take the subject make sure you actually work on it throughout the semester and not leave it to the last weekend as i did and nearly killed myself getting it in. Its a popular option as its seen to be handy and i'd estimate nearly 75% of my class took it.

Managment of Organisational Change again will be very similar to the Organisational Behaviour module in Semester 1. Michael Campion will probably be lecturing this. again 40% of the course is assessed by a group project and the exam is straightforward enough.

I plan on taking mainly HR options for final year and doing a masters in HR/Org behaviour.

Hope that helps. If you have any other questions about 2nd year fire away!

thanks for all that!really helped. do u know anything about the two optional economics subjects?

narwog81

sorry man don't know anything about the optional economics subjects, not really my scene.:D

in semester II you'll have macroeconomics with either ashley piggins or probably brendan kennelly now that alan ahearne is gone to save the government, this is a good course,very interesting and topical especially with the current goings on. Brendan kennelly took managerial economics in semester I last year aswell.

if you like economics you should enjoy both the mandatory subjects, you probably already had ashley piggins but check out brendan kennelly aswell, he's very funny and sarcastic, did basic game theory with him last year and found it interesting and easy to understand when he taught it.

qwytre

Information Systems Management & the Organisational Management one are both heavily text based i.e. just learn off loads of essay type topics and then write it all down in the exams.

rose_2

I didnt take the intro to financial economics myself but i know a few people who did and they didnt seem to have any problems, the class size was pretty small which makes everything easier and there was a fairly big assignment that took up a lot of the marks..think the assignment was excel based..graphs etc and it was all covered in tutorials. I took mgt of organisational change, Michael Campion was actually pretty sound for it and I also did fin acc which was fine as well. You have time to change your subjects so maybe try going to a few different lectures and at least you'll get a second chance to change your options so don't worry about it too much!!