The Diploma of Commerce is your stepping stone to a wide range of career options across private and public-sector organisations. Enter directly into the second year of Bachelor of Commerce (many majors available), Sport Management, Business Analytics, Law, or Property and Real Estate.
You’ll gain all the foundational knowledge to pursue further study in areas like accounting, business law, economics, finance, international business, marketing and management at Deakin University. Completing a degree in one of these fields is a huge advantage to your future career.
Employment and career options upon completing your Bachelor degree:
On completion of this Diploma you can pathway into the following degrees at Deakin University:
Majors: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Financial Planning, Human Resource Management, Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing
Bachelor of Business (Sport Management)
Bachelor of Business Analytics
Bachelor of Property and Real Estate
Majors: Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Event Management, Organisational Psychology, People Management, Project Management, Business and Digital Communication, Retail and Supply Chain Management, Sustainability and Development
For further details about Diploma of Commerce units, unit availability and trimester structures, please download the course and unit outline.
To successfully complete the Diploma of Commerce, students are required to complete and pass 8 core units (1 credit point each) and 1 compulsory module (zero credit points).
The unit covers: the impact of accounting in society; business planning and budgets for management decisions; classification, analysis and summarisation of business transactions; preparation of classified accounting reports; techniques to analyse and interpret financial statements.
Assessment: 40% internal, 60% final examination
This unit addresses the theory of competitive markets,and the need for and effects of government intervention. This includes a consideration of the nature of economics, consumer behaviour and market demand, the firm –its technology and costs, market structures, markets for input, public goods and externalities. This unit also provides the microeconomic framework required to develop an appreciation and understanding of the pricing and output by firms and their implications for economic efficiency.
Assessment: 50% internal, 50% final examination
This unit aims to introduce students to finance and provide an introductory knowledge of the Australian financial system. The unit will discuss some of the fundamental financial concepts such as the time value of money and the concepts of risk and return. Students will learn to apply these fundamental concepts in the areas of investments in equity and debt. These issues will be discussed in the local and international context.
Assessment: 40% internal, 60% final examination
The digital revolution has changed the practice of business. Data to support business decisions (data collected by business systems as well as through the Internet and Social Media such as Facebook and Twitter) are growing exponentially and becoming increasingly difficult to understand and use. Business Analytics is the broad use of quantitative reasoning skills in business decision making. Business Analytics helps managers to solve complex business problems, improve business performance, anticipate and plan for change while managing and balancing risks. This unit will provide students with the analytical knowledge and skills to explore data to find patterns and relationships in data; assess uncertainty and risk of business decisions; evaluate decisions; and forecast and predict trends.
Assessment: 50% internal, 50% final examination
The unit provides the underlying concepts and purpose of Law for Commerce and the Australian legal system. The unit covers the law relating to contract, consumer protection, business entities and relationships, and torts with a focus on negligence.
Assessment: 60% internal, 40% final examination
Marketing focuses on the creativity involved in the marketing process, ranging from understanding consumer needs to designing customer-driven integrated marketing strategies using the marketing mix. It is the intention to build the knowledge on the marketing planning process and how this is successfully implemented in market and computer-oriented organisations that include profit-oriented companies, government and the not-for-profit sector.
Assessment: 60% internal, 40% final examination
The aim of this unit is to provide students with a critical understanding of the intellectual foundations of the study of management. The unit will provide the opportunity to analyse how the solutions to management ‘problems’ have developed under different conditions throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. The unit also explores how management practice influences, and is influenced by, the external environment. This will involve examining how managerial action impacts on and is shaped by the environment, through a consideration of, ethics, social responsibility, and the social and cultural context of management.
Assessment: 60% internal, 40% final examination
The Personal Insight unit is a compulsory unit offered in Deakin’s Bachelor of Commerce program and is also available to students from other programs and faculties within the University. The University recognises the importance of students gaining professional identity skills to enable them to understand them through Personal Insight. The unit aims to broaden students’ self-awareness and understanding of the sophistication their career preparedness and means of communication necessary to be successful in both their business and personal lives.
Assessment: 100% internal
The Academic Integrity module is a compulsory 0 credit point module in all Faculty of Business and Law courses. The module's learning and assessment activities provide students with guidance on what constitutes academic integrity. It will allow students to develop knowledge, skills and good practice principles to avoid plagiarism and collusion and thereby maintain academic integrity.
This module consists of approximately 3 hours of online learning experiences delivered through Moodle.
There are no classroom or scheduled learning activities. Students undertake independent learning activities at their own pace.
Assessment: 100% (Individual Quiz) – Online multiple-choice questions
Weighted average mark (WAM) required for transfer, by campus:
| Course | Trimester Intake | Melbourne Burwood | Geelong Waterfront | Warnambool | Cloud | Maximum Credits |
M300 Bachelor of Commerce ≠ (B, WF, WB, C) Major sequences: |
T1 T2 T3+++ |
50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 8 |
| M391 Bachelor of Business (Sport Management) (B, C) |
T1 T2 T3 |
50 | 50 | 8# | ||
| M340 Bachelor of Business Analytics (B, C) |
T1 T2 |
50 | 50 | 8# | ||
| M312 Bachelor of Laws (B, WF, C) |
T1 T2++ |
70 | 70 | 70 | 8# | |
| M348 Bachelor of Property and Real Estate (B, C) |
T1 T2 T3 |
50 | 50 | 8# | ||
M325 Bachelor of Business (B, WF~, C) Major sequences: |
T1 T2 T3 |
50 | 50 | 50 | 8# |
Cloud (Online) option is not available to international students
T1 (Trimester 1 entry); T2 (Trimester 2 entry); T3 (Trimester 3 entry)
* See Diploma to Degree transfer criteria
++ Offered at Burwood (Melbourne) and Cloud (Online) only
+++ Offered at Cloud (Online) only
≠ Choice of majors limited and not available on all campuses
# These degrees require you to take additional first year degree units when you transfer to Deakin University. The degree may therefore take longer to complete
^^ Students will be required to undertake units in Cloud (Online) mode
~ Waterfront (Geelong) students will undertake some units of study at Waurn Ponds (Geelong).
International students must be able to demonstrate English language proficiency before being admitted to this course.
Online and on-campus classes run between 11am and 9pm on weekdays (Melbourne timezone, AEST). Most units run as 2 x 2-hour classes each week. You can also expect between 4-6 hours of private study per unit, per week.
View the transfer requirements for the Diploma of Commerce below.