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Core courses

ACCT 101 Introduction to Accounting for Business Majors [4-0-0:4]
ACCT 188 Professional Excellence Program I [1-0-0:1]
               
   (1) [

or
or
ECON
ECON
ECON
110
111
191
Introductory Microeconomics
Microeconomics
Honors Microeconomics
[3-1-0:4]
[3-1-0:4]
[3-1-0:4]
FINA 111 Financial Management [3-1-0:3]
ISMT 101 Introduction to Information Systems [3-0-1:3]
ISMT 111 Business Statistics [3-1-0:4]
ISMT 161 Operations Management [3-0-0:3]
MARK 112 Marketing Management [3-0-0:3]
MGTO 121 Organizational Behavior [3-1-0:3]

Required courses

ACCT 201 Financial Accounting I [3-0-0:3]
ACCT 202 Financial Accounting II [3-0-0:3]
ACCT 220 Management Accounting I [4-0-0:4]
ACCT 221 Management Accounting II [4-0-0:4]
ACCT 261 Business Law [3-1-0:4]
ACCT 288 Professional Excellence Program II [1-0-0:1]
ACCT 301 Advanced Financial Accounting [4-0-0:4]
ACCT 341 Taxation [4-0-0:4]
ACCT 351 Auditing [4-0-0:4]
ACCT 361 Company Law [3-1-0:4]
ECON 112 Macroeconomics [3-1-0:4]
     (2) LANG 111

Chinese Business Communication I

[0-3-0:3]
 (3)[or MATH
MATH
005
006
Pre-Calculus
Calculus and Linear Algebra
 
[3-1-0:3]
[3-1-0:3]
 
MGTO 222 Business, Society and the Individual [1-0-0:1]
MGTO 321 Corporate Strategy [3-1-0:4]

                                                                                                                                        

See "Important Notes" at the beginning of this Handbook for guidance on selection of general education courses.

Elective types

Minimum
no. of courses

Minimum
total credits

GEE(SCIE) Science General Education Elective 1

]

6
GEE(ENGG) Engineering General Education Elective 1
(4) GEE(H&SS) Humanities and Social Science General Education Elective 4 12

 


LABU 101 Business Case Analyses [0-3-0:4]
LANG 201 Business Communication [0-3-0:3]

 (5)

HLTH  

001

Healthy Life Style 

[0 credit] 

                                                     

           
Notes
:

(1) Students entering with AL Economics take ECON 111; however, those with grade B or above in HKAL Economics will take ECON 191. All other students without AL Economics background, including those entering with AL Business and Economics, take ECON 110.
(2) Students cannot replace this course by LANG 014/015 for graduation purposes. Students recruited from Mainland China will replace this course by a free elective.  For international students who are assessed as having inadequate Chinese background to take LANG 111, they will replace this course by LANG 113.
(3) Students should take one of MATH 005, MATH 006 or a free elective with respect to their prior mathematics background as follows:
 
Prior mathematics background                                Course to be taken
 

HKCEE Mathematics only, or grade C or below in       MATH 006
  HKCEE Additional Mathematics   

_________________________________________________________________________                       
Grade B or above in HKCEE Additional Mathematics;  Free Elective
  OR a passing grade in AS Mathematics and
  Statistics, AL/AS Applied Mathematics or
  AL Pure Mathematics     
_________________________________________________________________________
Qualification apart from the above-students in this     MATH 005, MATH 006 or a
 group are required to take a Mathematics                free elective, subject to School
 Placement Test.                                                    approval on consideration of
                                                                             the placement test result. Details
                                                                             are available at
                                                                             http://www.ust.hk/math-placement
________________________________________________________________________
                                                                                   

(4) Of these courses, at least one course in Humanities and one in Social Science are required.
(5)  Students are required to take and pass this course in their first year of study.  Details of the course and its requirements are announced on the course website http://www.ab.ust.hk/sao/HLTH001 managed by the Student Affairs Office.

A minimum of 102 credits is required for the BBA program in Accounting. Students who are not required to take MATH 005/006 and/or LANG 111/113 must take additional course(s) and/or elective(s) of higher than-required credit value to meet this minimum total of 102 credits.  For students who are required to take both MATH 005/006 and LANG 111/113, the  minimum total required is 103 credits.


Recommended Pattern of Study for the Curriculum

1st year Fall C ACCT 101, ISMT 111, MGTO 121
R HLTH 001, LABU 101, MATH 005/MATH 006/FREE (Total:13-14 credits)
Spring C ACCT 188, ECON 110/111/191, FINA 111,
ISMT 101, ISMT 161, MARK 112
R HLTH 001, LABU 101 (Total: 21* credits)
2nd year Fall R ACCT 201, ACCT 220, ECON 112,
LANG 111/ LANG 113/FREE, MGTO 222
E GEE(H&SS) (Total: 17-18 credits)
         
Spring R ACCT 202, ACCT 221, ACCT 261,
ACCT 288, LANG 201
E GEE(H&SS) (Total: 18 credits)
3rd year Fall R ACCT 301, ACCT 351, MGTO 321
E GEE(ENGG), GEE(H&SS) (Total: 18 credits)
Spring R ACCT 341, ACCT 361
E GEE(SCIE), GEE(H&SS) (Total: 14 credits)
* LABU 101 is a two-semester course. The course credits will be earned on completion of the course at the end of 1st year Spring.

C = core course; R = required course; E = elective course