COMM1100 Business Decision Making - 2025
General Course Information
Course Code : COMM1100
Year : 2025
Term : Term 1
Teaching Period : T1
Course Details & Outcomes
Course Description
This is the frst course in the Integrated First Year of the Bachelor of Commerce, which introduces you to business decision making. You will learn about economic, corporate responsibility and legal principles to understand what organisational actors need to consider and what actions they might take. Fundamental economic principles inform decision makers to ask and answer questions about how the economy works, and how these principles infuence the decisions that individuals and organisations make. Core legal principles guide decision makers to protect value for owners and other stakeholders and protect both managers and organisations from public and private legal actions arising from their decisions. Corporate responsibility principles direct decision makers to meet the organisation’s responsibilities to a range of stakeholders
Course Aims
COMM1100 gives students an understanding of the interplay of economic, legal, and corporate responsibility principles in business decisions. Students learn to identify relevant economic models and analyse how they are used in business decisions; identify legal issues that arise in commercial situations and analyse how they infuence business decisions; and identify the key features of corporate (social, environmental) responsibility, and how the business world can contribute to the greater good.
Relationship to Other Courses
COMM1100 is a prerequisite for COMM1150 Global Business Environments.
Course Learning Outcomes
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Course Learning Outcomes
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Program learning outcomes
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CLO1 : Explain the interplay of economic, legal, and corporate responsibility principles in
business decisions
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• PLO1 : Business Knowledge
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CLO2 : Identify appropriate economic models and analyse how they are used in business decisions
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• PLO1 : Business Knowledge
• PLO2 : Problem Solving
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CLO3 : Identify legal issues that arise in
commercial situations and analyse how they infuence business decisions
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• PLO1 : Business Knowledge
• PLO2 : Problem Solving
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CLO4 : Identify the key features of corporate (social, environmental) responsibility, and how the business world can contribute to the
greater good
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• PLO1 : Business Knowledge
• PLO5 : Responsible Business Practice
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CLO5 : Apply appropriate search strategies to research and summarise relevant and valid information from a range of suitable sources
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• PLO3 : Business Communication
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Course Learning Outcomes
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Assessment Item
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CLO1 : Explain the interplay of economic, legal, and corporate responsibility principles in
business decisions
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• Tutorial participation
• Problem Set
• Case study analysis
• Final exam
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CLO2 : Identify appropriate economic models and analyse how they are used in business decisions
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• Tutorial participation
• Problem Set
• Case study analysis
• Final exam
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CLO3 : Identify legal issues that arise in
commercial situations and analyse how they infuence business decisions
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• Tutorial participation
• Problem Set
• Case study analysis
• Final exam
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CLO4 : Identify the key features of corporate (social, environmental) responsibility, and how the business world can contribute to the
greater good
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• Tutorial participation
• Problem Set
• Case study analysis
• Final exam
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CLO5 : Apply appropriate search strategies to research and summarise relevant and valid information from a range of suitable sources
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• Tutorial participation
• Case study analysis
• Final exam
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