NGO Education Survey

ACCT5602 Accounting

This unit develops students' ability to understand, interpret and use financial reports. It is structured to provide an understanding of accounting concepts, issues and problems rather than educating someone to take the role of a professional accountant. The focus of the unit is on accounting for external users and, after developing an understanding of the basic concepts underlying external general purpose financial reports, techniques to analyse such reports are examined. The unit also provides an introduction to accounting for internal users. Basic cost concepts for making operating and strategic decisions within an organisation are discussed.

ECON5503 Economic Management and Strategy

This unit presents a critical set of principles and tools to assist managers to make informed decisions in an environment of economic risk and uncertainty. The unit introduces the basic elements of microeconomics and macroeconomics in terms of understanding the economic basis of business and strategic decision making through the application of economic principles to the role of the modern manager. Built around contemporary business experience and informal case studies, topics include supply and demand; market structures; contemporary market issues; the macroeconomic environment; money and financial markets; interest rates; inflation and unemployment; exchange rates; and a range of topical economic issues.

FINA5530 Managerial Finance

This unit introduces concepts in finance. Topics covered include capital markets; interest rates; valuing projects and financial instruments (bonds, equity, derivatives); capital budgeting; risk and return relationships, diversification and portfolio theory.

MGMT5501 Organisational Behaviour

This unit focuses on individual and group behaviour in organisations. Topics may include personality and behaviour; personal performance and stress; decision making skills; managing power, politics and conflict; team and group dynamics; gender and diversity issues; and interpersonal and group communication.

MGMT5513 Data Driven Decision Making

An important role for managers today is to make sense of the large quantities of data that are readily available by transforming such data to information that improves decision making. This unit provides an understanding of the statistical tools and techniques available to managers to do this. The importance of communicating statistical findings in a non-technical way is emphasised. Topics include research design, sampling and data collection, data visualisation, an introduction to business analytics and examining business relationships through appropriate modelling.

MGMT5514 Demonstrating Social Impact

This unit provides an introduction and overview to social impact evaluation and assessment. It includes discussion of the factors that have been driving the greater focus on social impact assessment as well as the benefits and limitations of evaluation more broadly; a critical discussion of what constitutes robust evidence on social impact; an examination of the underpinning principles of evaluation, cost-benefit analysis and social impact assessment (e.g. stakeholder engagement, theories of change, transparency, ethics, verification and assurance); a detailed focus (concepts and practice) on key social impact measurement approaches—logic models, social impact assessment (SIA), the most significant change (MSG) approach, and the social return on investment (SROI) method; and a discussion of frameworks used to account for social impact in the corporate and not-for-profit sectors such as the global reporting initiative (GRI), the London Benchmarking Group (LBG) initiative and results-based accountability.

MGMT5516 Social Impact: Entrepreneurs and Social Innovation

his unit examines the social economy through the emerging spectrum of organisational forms that generate both social and economic value. It looks at why the traditional boundaries between government, business and the third sector have become blurred and fluid and what that means for the capacity to deliver new forms of social impact. It examines trends and drivers reshaping the dynamics of social impact.

MGMT5517 Leadership for Social Impact

This unit covers current challenges in achieving social benefit; new forms of organisation designed to address failure in the social economy; the challenges and opportunities of leadership; models of leadership that can assist in identifying adaptive challenges for leaders, suggesting ways in which they might intervene more effectively to create positive social outcomes; and governance challenges and diagnosis of leadership challenges.

MGMT5518 Social Investment and Philanthropy

This unit introduces the history, core concepts and current issues in the fields of philanthropy, fundraising and social investment. It includes an international historical overview, social investment and social change drivers and characteristics, principles and techniques of giving and fundraising, ethical and philosophical perspective, current forces shaping fundraising and grant-making and current developments and controversies in social investment.

MGMT5700 Strategic Management

This capstone unit takes a general, integrating perspective and is concerned with setting the strategic direction of organisations. The most important outcome from undertaking the unit is that students better consider how managers and organisations can think and act in a strategic way. The unit predominately uses case studies to improve the strategic thinking capability of students. A number of topics are considered: what strategy is; how strategy happens within organisations; vision, strategy and values; analysing environmental forces and searching for a sustainable competitive advantage; competitor positioning and game theory; the impact of disruptive technologies on business model innovation including forming inter-organisational networks of relationships; entrepreneurial strategies; core competencies; parenting advantage; strategic turnaround; chaos theory; measuring strategy; strategic leadership and ethics; and managing strategic change.

MKTG5550 Marketing Principles

This unit studies the marketing function; marketing decision making and the marketing mix; forecasting demand; market segmentation and related behavioural issues; marketing strategies; product as a marketing variable; channel strategy; promotion budgeting and allocation, promotion and advertising strategies; pricing decisions; and evaluation and control of marketing management.

BUSN1102 Changing the World: Social Innovation, Finance and Enterprise

This unit highlights how innovation and entrepreneurship are solving major global social and economic challenges such as hunger, poverty, homelessness and intergenerational disadvantage and unemployment. It considers the rise of social entrepreneurship, the shift to a focus on collaboration, and the role of corporate social responsibility, philanthro-capitalism, social finance and impact investing in creating new options for positive social impact. New tools for social change in a digital and social media world (e.g. Kiva, Kickstarter, Twitter, Facebook) are considered and trends in the measurement and demonstration of social impact are examined. The aim of the unit is for students to gain an evidence based and rich picture of what works in driving social change in the contemporary world.