Certificate III in Business Administration (BSB30407)

Overview

This Business Traineeship is designed to give you the skills and knowledge you need when working in administrative roles. It is a form of nationally recognised training that is widely accepted by industry as an effective way to develop qualified administrative employees.

The Certificate III in Business Administration consists of the following competencies:

Requirements

Requiring 13 units to achieve this qualification:

• 2 Core Units plus 11 Elective units
• 7 units from Administration Electives (listed below)
• 4 units from the business services training package, of which a minimum of 2 units must be from a certificate III qualification and 2 units may be from a Certificate II or IV qualification

Core Units

• BSBOHS201A: Participate in OHS processes
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to participate in workplace occupational health and safety (OHS) processes to protect workers own health and safety, and that of others.

• BSBITU307A: Develop keyboarding speed and accuracy
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to develop keyboard skills with speed and accuracy using touch typing techniques.

Administration Elective Units

• BSBITU304A: Produce spreadsheets
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to develop spreadsheets through the use of spreadsheet software.
   

• BSBITU302A: Create electronic presentations
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to design and produce electronic presentations for speakers, for self access and for online access.
   

• BSBADM307B: Organise schedules
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to manage appointments and diaries for personnel within an organisation, using manual and electronic diaries, schedules and other appointment systems. 

• BSBFIA302A: Process payroll
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to process payroll from provided data using manual and computerised payroll systems.
   

• BSBFIA303A: Process accounts payable and receivable
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to maintain accounts payable and receivable records, including processing payments to creditors and handling overdue accounts receivable.
   

• BSBFIA304A: Maintain a general ledger
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to maintain a general ledger within an organisation including processing journal entries and preparing a trail balance.
   

• BSBITU303A: Design and produce text documents
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to design and develop predominantly text based documents using advanced features of work processing software.
   

• BSBWRT301A: Write simple documents
  This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to plan, draft and review a basic document before writing the final version.