Graduate Certificate in Management

The overall purpose of the Graduate Certificate in Management (GradCertMgt) program is to develop competent and practical practitioners who add value to the professional business community. The course is designed to provide students an opportunity to develop advanced knowledge and skills in various business disciplines. Students will learn the principles behind an organisation’s structure and operational challenges, along with how organisations and individuals meet these in the context of cultural diversity and in an ever-changing global environment.
Graduates of OIHE’s GradCertMgt will have skills in accounting, marketing, and key communication skills underpinning effective business operations. GradCertMgt graduates should have a range of employment opportunities in roles such as: Business Consultant, Business Development Manager, Entrepreneur, Finance Manager, General Manager, Marketing Manager, Operations Manager, Program Manager and Sales Manager. The course will allow graduates to advance their career over a range of domestic and/or global business management settings.

Study Mode: Face to face

Duration: Full-time, 6 Months (1 Trimester)

Location Ground, 123 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, VIC. 3000

Course Requirements 2 core units plus 2 electives. The Graduate Certificate in Management allows articulation into the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Professional Accounting (MPA).

Entry Requirements General Entry Academic Entry Requirements:  Completion of an Australian Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline; or completion of three years of postsecondary study with a qualification equivalent to an Australian Associate degree or Advanced Diploma;; or A minimum of three years equivalent full-time relevant managerial or professional experience; or A minimum of five years equivalent full-time relevant work experience. Age Entry Requirement Applicants must be minimum 18 years of age prior to commencing a course at the Institute International Students Academic Entry Requirements An international applicant must meet the academic requirements for admission in one of the following ways: Completion of an Australian Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline; or A minimum of three years equivalent full-time relevant managerial or professional experience; or A minimum of five years equivalent full-time relevant work experience. English Entry Requirements Applicants must be minimum 18 years of age prior to commencing a course at the Institute IELTS score of a minimum of 6.0 with no band less than 6.0 or equivalent; or Recognised English Language Course: English for Academic Purposes from Ozford English Language Centre or another CRICOS listed English language qualification studied in Australia with outcomes equivalent to IELTS 6.0 with no band less than 6.0; or Completion of undergraduate or postgraduate degree, including Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Australia within the past two years; or Completion of an AQF Level 7 (or higher) qualification that was studied in Australia in English within the past two years; or Age Entry Requirement Applicants must be minimum 18 years of age prior to commencing a course at the Institute

ACC5901 Financial Analysis and Decision Making

This unit improves the students’ ability to understand the cause and effect of recording business transactions both through manual and computer based systems and produce the relevant accounting reports that are the outputs of the accounting process. It requires the students to use, adapt, evaluate and manage available accounting software that support the overall accounting functions. The students will learn how to use relevant accounting software (e.g., MYOB or QuickBooks or Xero) to record payroll, accounts receivable/accounts payable, inventory, GST, superannuation, PAYE transactions and prepare journal, ledger, trial balance, income statement, balance sheet and other relevant statements using accounting software. The unit also aims at providing students with the skills and techniques to select financial information relevant to particular business decisions and analyse and interpret accounting data to evaluate the financial status of a business. In general, this unit will lay a solid foundation for further studies in accounting.

MKT5961 Global Marketing Management

Globalisation is the process by which firms operate on a global basis, where they view the world as a single market. Global marketing can be defined as the process of adjusting the marketing strategies of a firm to adapt to the conditions of other countries. Marketing strategies are different in different countries reflecting culture, economic and social circumstances of those countries. A marketing strategy that works in one country may not necessarily work in another. The challenge for marketers is to develop strategies that can address global and local markets, taking into account aspects that are similar and those which are different. This unit will investigate cultural and political environments, the important of marketing research, and assessing global marketing opportunities in different global regions.

COM5981 Professional Communications

This unit is designed to give students the skills to effectively communicate clearly and coherently to engage and interact with a range of stakeholders in a business environment using appropriate language and communication strategies. Through class presentations, role-play and interactions in the class, students will develop skills and knowledge for technology-based effective oral and written presentation and articulate the most appropriate communication style that pays due attention to contextual, social, health and safety, ethical and cultural considerations. Students will also be introduced to research methods and writing research reports which will be required for research-related assessment tasks for students who progress to the Master of Business Administration or Master of Professional Accounting. Developing excellent communication skills is extremely important to your career success, whether you are already working or are about to enter today’s increasingly digital workplace. Employers often rank communication skills among the most requested competencies. Communication skills include writing, reading, listening, nonverbal, and speaking skills. This unit is aimed at improving students’ oral and written communication skills and raise their team spirit.

ECO5911 Managerial Economics

This unit examines the operation of the economy at the micro and macro-economic levels. Students will examine the factors that influence the behaviour of consumers, firms and markets. At the micro level, it covers the fundamental economic concepts of scarcity, utility, demand, price, cost, supply, laws of diminishing marginal utility, laws of demand and supply and price, and pricing under monopoly, oligopoly and perfectly competitive markets.
At the macro level the students will examine the factors that affect the whole economy such as, national Income, GDP, GNP, economic growth, inflation and unemployment and the role of the government, the national budget, and the Central Bank in managing economic fluctuations. Emphasis is placed on the interrelationship between real world situations and the application of economic theory to practical scenarios.

ENT5966 Entrepreneurship

This unit introduces students to core entrepreneurship theory and concepts and applies these to the realities of entrepreneurial activity and decision making and a contemporary global context. The unit investigates business strategy and entrepreneurship and provides a framework for understanding relevant theory and its application. This unit focusses on developing skills and knowledge necessary for the planning, development and implementation of entrepreneurial ventures or enterprise. Students will apply advanced knowledge of legal, marketing, and financial principles with reasoning and creative skills to identify business opportunities at venture or enterprise level, and present and develop entrepreneurial propositions.

ICT5941 Business Information Systems

Students will examine how information, knowledge, data and enterprise information systems can be used strategically for improvement of business processes. Students will learn how to develop innovative and practical solutions for business problems, while gaining expertise on e-commerce, information and knowledge management, business intelligence and decision making, and business process management and innovation. This unit will develop students’ ability to design, implement and operate information and enterprise resource planning systems, database management systems, computer-based accounting systems and cyber security systems, within an ethical, legal and social framework.

LAW5916 Business Law

This unit introduces students to the Australian legal environment and examines a number of commercial laws that are central to business, such as, Contract Law, Laws of Agency, Consumer Protection Law, Insolvency Law and Law of Tort. Emphasis will be placed on the understanding of legal reasoning and on the application of legal principles to actual business situations and entrepreneurial activities. It also introduces students to corporate regulation in Australia and a range of legal issues faced by incorporated entities in Australia. Important issues that will be examined include formation, registration and legal status of companies; company constitution, legal rights, duties and obligations of creditors, shareholders and directors; corporate governance, meetings and voting; Disclosure documents and ASIC lodgement; company restructuring and liquidation; rights of creditors and division of assets.

STA5951 Quantitative Business Analysis

This unit introduces students to the concepts of data analysis and data visualisation techniques for solving business problems. The importance of data visualisation as part of data analysis and for the communication of results is also covered. Students will review statistical data including sampling and probability distribution in forecasting from time-series data, hypothesis testing and regression analysis. Students will develop their problem-solving skills by using various mathematical, data analysis and data visualisation techniques with computer software to effectively communicate the results of this analysis.