You could help people realise their business potential.
Studying at our in-house Greater Bank Finance Lab, you'll be ready to tackle global financial challenges and make a difference in communities here and across the globe. See yourself here.
With a degree in the area of accounting and finance, you’ll develop a dynamic understanding of the world’s fiscal systems and complex economic landscape. Stretch your skill set, so your strategic problem-solving skills can be applied in a variety of roles such as an accountant, financial analyst, investment banker, stockbroker, and more.
Your studies might lead you to work for a global consultancy – assessing the financial validity of future corporations – or to work with the Reserve Bank, providing economic forecasts to drive official interest rates. You’ll gain insight into the global interplay between the financial, legal, political, and economic systems, looking at how these factors influence the contemporary business environment in Australia and across the globe.
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We understand that sometimes you don't know exactly which degree you'd like to pursue, but you know which field or major excites you. Use these areas of interest to narrow down your study options based on your interests and career goals.
Studying accounting as part of your degree will teach you the systematic and comprehensive recording of financial transactions. Within an Accounting major, you’ll learn to measure and analyse not only what is happening in organisations, but also the broader financial environment. As an accountant, you are involved in assessing the financial validity and future of organisations, as well as its investments, acquisitions, taxation, opportunities and threats.
In an Economics major you study the production, consumption and transfer of wealth. This area focuses on things like global economies, government spending, interest rates and government regulations. Economists analyse real-world problems such as sustainable economic growth, economic management and climate change and build models for planning and prediction of future events.
This specialisation is highly valued across industries and opens up doors all over the world.
A Finance major is concerned with the study of managing money efficiently. It focuses on cash flow; asset and risk management; capital markets; portfolio theory; international finance; and forecasting and budgeting. It looks at pricing assets based on their risk level and expected rate of return.
Finance professionals can be involved in a range of industries including the stock market, banking or financial planning.
Studying a combined degree gives you two qualifications at once. The advantage is that you graduate with two degrees in less time than doing them separately. You may also gain a competitive edge in the employment market as employers are increasingly looking for staff with diverse skill-sets.
Watch Julia's story
Are you interested in helping fuel the financial future of communities? Look no further for inspiration than Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) and Bachelor of Business (Leadership and Management) student Julia Weber. She’s pursuing a path that will allow her to practice social entrepreneurship.
“Social entrepreneurship is different to business in that a business is for creating profit, we want to make money,” explains Julia.
“But social entrepreneurship is about creating social impact. So you want to go into communities and solve a problem.”
And as a recipient of the University of Newcastle’s iLead global leadership development scholarship, that’s exactly what Julia was able to do. She travelled to Bandung, Indonesia, where she partnered with local community members to help them find and sustain economic opportunities.
“What that involved was going into villages and looking at how we could empower local people to start their own businesses. What skillsets do they need? What confidence do they need?” says Julia.
Eventually, they found a project where they could make a significant impact on behalf of the citizens there.
“We were able to create project plan and go into a village and assist women in that village to create their own business out of something they were already doing day to day. Producing a food product, and they were able to monetise that through the skills that we taught them,” says Julia.
“Through the skills I acquired through my commerce degree, I was in charge of educating local Indonesians about accounting…the basics of debits and credits, the importance of keeping good records, looking at business performance and where the key areas were that they could improve.”
Julia says that being in Indonesia and seeing firsthand how her work helped to change lives for the better was incredible.
“The profits from that were put towards a library for the local kids in the community. And I can honestly say that was one of the most rewarding emotional experiences of my life, when we opened those library doors, the kids ran in, and held brand new books for the first time.”
She built skills she believes will stay with her for a lifetime.
“Being in Indonesia was one of the most transformative experiences that I’ve had, because it forced me out of my comfort zone. I now know that I can walk into any room with any number of strangers, and be able to hold a conversation and find common ground with anyone.”
Today, Julia works as a Trainee Private Business and Family Advisory at Pitcher Partners. She gets excited about teaching her clients the skills to create more stable financial opportunities for themselves.
“I am extremely passionate about financial literacy. In particular, educating young people about money matters so that they can avoid debt and have a prosperous financial future.”
Over the course of our 55-year history, more than 148,000 students have called Newcastle their home. And why wouldn't you want to? Our laid-back lifestyle, picture perfect beaches and thriving arts scene are just some of the reasons to love Newy.
Are you keen to take your studies around the world? There are opportunities for international experiences across every area of study, whether it’s an overseas exchange program, study tour or work placement.
We have over 100 scholarships available which support around 1000 new students at the University of Newcastle per year.
The Newcastle Business School is accredited with the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), earned by fewer than 5% of the world's business programs. AACSB is the premier, and longest-standing, international accrediting body for business programs and is the international benchmark for excellence in business education.
