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To whoever is doing commerce at UNI I'm interested what kind of books you guys read/have on your booklist?
Commerce undergraduates, which books?
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first year, 2nd year, 3rd year if thats alright...
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These are the first year texts I'm currently using:RobinHood said:
Financial institutions and markets (4th ed) - Hunt & Terry
Principles of Macroeconomics - Bernanke, Olekalns & Frank
Accounting, Information for Decisions - Juchau et al.
Australian Business Statistics (3rd ed) - Selvanathan et al.
The first two texts are great, and regularly referred to by us students.
If you're looking for 2nd year and beyond texts, you should have a look at the subject pages on the University of Melbourne site.
Hope that helps,
scsl
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My son plans to do commerce in a year or so. Loves Economics in Year 11, and has always, from the age of four has been interested in all things money! Used to loan his older brother his pocket money and charge interest from the age of six! We thought then he would end up being a merchant banker.
How do you find it? Interesting?
How do you find it? Interesting?
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thanks scsl thats great
Im at UTS, also using Financial Institutions and markets, Hunt, the author is my lecturer for that subject.scsl said:
Using a book called Macroeconomics by Dornbusch, for MacroEconomics, used Principles of Economics by Bajada for Intro to Economics(Bajada was the lecturer)
Used Essentials of Modern Business Statistics for our intro stats subject, using College Mathematics and Undergraduate Econometrics for our Quantitive Business Analysis subject this semester
The Marketing and Management books i cant remember, plus a bunch of Accounting text books.
maffu, I'm curious what UTS stands for? And whereabouts is it?maffu said:
It's interesting that you have a few authors as your lecturers. Olekalns (author of my Macroeconomics text) is my lecturer. He's very proud of his book but luckily for us, it's not to the point that he's arrogant about it. He's a great lecturer, very engaging and enthusiastic - his lectures are always full. And he's even told us to let him know what we think of the text and if there are any mistakes!
LOL! Sounds like he'd love finance subjects...Prospector said:
Commerce has been pretty enjoyable so far. For a person that wanted to be a physiotherapist or chiro back in Year 10, I'm really liking most aspects of the course. Having not done a single commerce related subject in high school, some aspects are totally new and I've had to study a bit harder than mates who have say done accounting in high school.
Commerce at Melbourne Uni (and I'm guessing at most others) is really good in that apart from the few core subjects, you get to choose what subjects you're interested in. For example, in this semester, my two core subjects are Macroeconomics and Quantitative Methods (statistics) and I've chosen to do Finance and Accounting subjects.
Macro's been very interesting, with topics being covered at the moment that are very relevant in what's happening in Australia e.g. interest rates, what's behind economic growth and the importance of it, key indicators etc. QM is extremely dry and there's no chance I'll be doing any statistics related subjects beyond this. Finance is my most enjoyable subject and as for Accounting, it's quite boring and I'm not looking to major in it.
And for a teenager, 12 hours a week of uni isn't too bad at all!
Some of my friends in science had 28 hours a week in the first semester.Cheers,
scsl
UTS is University of Technology Sydney.scsl said:Commerce at Melbourne Uni (and I'm guessing at most others) is really good in that apart from the few core subjects, you get to choose what subjects you're interested in. For example, in this semester, my two core subjects are Macroeconomics and Quantitative Methods (statistics) and I've chosen to do Finance and Accounting subjects.
QM is extremely dry and there's no chance I'll be doing any statistics related subjects beyond this. Finance is my most enjoyable subject and as for Accounting, it's quite boring and I'm not looking to major in it.
And for a teenager, 12 hours a week of uni isn't too bad at all!
Cheers,
scsl
Haha, got to agree with nearly all that you said. Im doing Accounting/Finance majors and i think ill drop down to an Accounting sub-major as its so boring compared to finance. Also find the statistics subjects slightly boring, but they are a neccessary evil i guess. Im also doing the 12 hour week which was awesome until i started working so much, but at least now i have enough money to trade, so it all works out well.
