B2049 (Monash Malaysia)

B2049 - Bachelor of Digital Business

Course Map Planning Guide (For Students Commencing in 2026)

It is your responsibility to ensure that you chose the correct units, and this web page will give you all the information you need to do this. It will take you through each component of your degree and explain the decisions you need to make.

Message from our Head of School

Professor Nafis Alam

The Basics

At Monash we call our degrees “courses”. You are enrolled in a course called the Bachelor of Digital Business. It has a course code: B2049.

To graduate from this course you need to complete a total of 24 units. Most students do this by taking 4 units each semester for 6 semesters (two semesters each year for three years). It is very important that you choose your units carefully because you have to meet the rules of the degree. If you get to the end of three years and have chosen the wrong units you won’t be able to graduate and will have to do another semester of study.

Your degree has three sections:

• Part A. Specialist discipline knowledge
• Part B. Additional discipline knowledge
• Part C. Free elective study

You must complete 14 units in Part A, 2 units in Part B and 8 units in Part C (giving you a total of 24 units). Each part has its own rules. The following sections take you through each part in detail, explaining exactly what you need to do to meet the rules.

• Course progression map

Part A. Core Studies (14 Units)

You must complete fourteen units (84 credit points) from the following units.

Note : You must complete ECM1953 or ECW1101 and ECW1102. If you complete ECW1101 and ECW1102 in Part A, you only need to complete 6 credit points in Part B.

You must complete one of the following units (6 credit points).

You must complete the one of the following options (6 credit points or 12 credit points).

You must complete the following five units (30 credit points).

You must complete the following seven units (42 credit points).

Part A summary

Total of 144 Units

Part B. Discipline Studies (2 units)

You must complete 12 credit points from the following units.

• If you complete ECW1101 and ECW1102 in Part A, you only need to complete 6 credit points in Part B.
• Accounting major students to take ACW2420 and BTW1042 in Part B.

Part B summary

You must complete total of 2 units.

Part C. Elective Studies (8 Units)

This is the most adventurous part of the Bachelor of Digital Business because the choice is yours! Here you have 8 units of “electives'' which means that you can choose what you want to study. Let’s discuss some of the common choices that students make:

• A major from the Bachelor of Business and Commerce. Many students study a major so that they can graduate with a major. If you want to do this, you need to plan early so you can start studying the units from your major early. If you study a major you need to follow the rules of the major as explained above.

• A minor (or two minors) from the Bachelor of Business and Commerce You can also take a minor, or two, from the Bachelor of Business and Commerce. A minor is a set of 4 units that concentrate on a single area of study. You can choose your minor from the following list. Of course, you cannot take a minor in the same area of study as your major. You may find that your minor has a unit (or even two) that you have already studied in your first major. Because you have already completed these units, they become free electives in Part C: you can take any unit you want to fill these elective slots.

• Accountancy minor
• Applied economics minor
• Banking and financial management minor
• Business law and taxation minor
• Business analytics minor
• Digital marketing minor
• Econometrics and business statistics minor
• FinTech minor
• International Business Management minor
• Management minor
• Strategic Marketing minor
• Sustainability minor

• Free electives You can use the units in Part C as “free electives”. That means that you can take any Monash units, provided you meet any pre-requisite requirements or other limitations (such as enrolment caps). If you take a minor, you can combine a minor with four free electives. When you are choosing free electives you need to check that you don’t break two important degree rules:

• You can only count ten 1000 level units in your degree (including the 7 you have completed in Part A and any additional 1000 level units in your major).
• You must complete at least a total of six 3000 level units.

Part C summary

You must complete 8 additional units. This could be one major, or two minors, or a minor plus four free electives, or eight free electives.

Special Advice for students who want to complete an Accounting Major

Part A. Core Studies & Part B. Discipline Studies

You have to complete 7 units in Part A & B.

• ACW1120 Financial Accounting 1
• BFW2140 Corporate finance 1
• ECM1953 Principles of economics
• ETW1001 Introduction to Statistical Analysis
• MGW1010 Introduction to Management
• ACW2420 Accounting Information Systems
• BTW1042 Business Law

Part C. Elective Studies

To gain a major in Accountancy, you need to complete these 8 units:

• ACW2120 Financial Accounting 2
• ACW2220 Management Accounting 1
• ACW3120 Financial Accounting 3
• ACW3220 Management Accounting 2
• ACW3620 Assurance and Audit Services
• ACW3900 Global Issues in accounting
• BTW2213 Malaysian Company Law
• BTW3153 Malaysian Income Tax Law

The accountancy major is accredited and recognised by ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), Malaysian Institute of Certified Public Accountants (MICPA), CAANZ (Certified Accountants Australia and New Zealand), CPA Australia (Certified Practising Accountants Australia), Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), and Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). To be exempted from some modules set by these professional bodies, you must complete all the units in the Accountancy major. Further information is available here.

How will my unit/major selection impact on my exchange program

During your course, you can opt to study a semester or two at any one of Monash's partner universities or study at a Monash campus in Australia for one semester.

You are encouraged to plan for this early in your course, preferably in your first semester, as you will need some flexibility in your course structure if deciding to study in Australia or a partner university.

Studying at a Monash Australia campus is the most convenient as you will find that most units you need for your major (or minor) are also offered in Australia. Apart from the Faculty conditions, you would also need to check if the units you need for your major are offered while you are in Australia.

If you prefer to study at a partner university, the choice of units you can take at the partner university will be dependent if you are substituting it with a Monash compulsory core unit, unit contributing to your major, or free elective unit. There are faculty policies in determining how the partner university subjects are assessed and approved:

• For compulsory core units, an equivalency assessment will be made where the partner university subject will need to share an 80% or greater overlap in learning outcomes, content and assessment.
• Units required for your major offers some flexibility in equivalency assessment and will be determined by the Faculty. This will be approved if the partner university subject is judged to have sufficient equivalent content and equates to six Monash credits on its own or in combination with another host subject.
• The most frequently used type of unit by students who exchange to a partner university are free electives. These units offer flexibility in your choice of study while overseas and can be anything judged suitable for credit at an appropriate learning volume.

Regardless of your study abroad location of choice, you will find that a single major offers greater flexibility in your course plan as you will have more ‘free electives’ to undertake while overseas. The choice is ultimately yours and we encourage you to plan early.

• Back to Current Students

• Back to the School of Business