• Total units 24 Units
  • Areas of interest Finance
  • Specialisation code FINM-SPEC

The Finance specialisation is designed for students who wish to:

  • Develop a greater understanding of financial principles and their application;
  • Improve analytical skills for interpreting and analysing financial information;
  • Gain greater insight into the Australian and international financial markets;
  • Increase management skills for dealing with organisations, teams and policy issues; and,
  • Expand their applied knowledge in various specialised areas of finance.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Recognise the important role of financial principles and their application;

  2. Demonstrate the necessary analytical skills for interpreting and analyzing financial information;

  3. Demonstrate well developed insight into the Australian and international financial markets;

  4. Justify and communicate the necessary management skills for dealing with organizations, teams and policy issues, so as to be able to work independently and collaboratively to collect, process, interpret and communicate the outcomes of financial problems; and,

  5. Demonstrate the skills necessary to critically engage with and evaluate financial problems.

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Requirements

This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, which must consist of:


24 units from the completion of the following course(s):

BUSN7008 - Financial Statements and Reporting

ECON8069 - Business Economics

FINM6016 - Applied Portfolio Construction

FINM6041 - Applied Derivatives

FINM7006 - Applied Foundations of Finance

FINM7007 - Applied Corporate Finance

FINM7008 - Applied Investments

FINM7044 - Applied Valuation

FINM8004 - Advanced Corporate Finance

FINM8006 - Advanced Investments

FINM8007 - Topics in International Finance

FINM8014 - Applied Financial Intermediation and Debt Markets

FINM8017 - Trading and Markets

FINM8100 - Applied Project in Finance

STAT6046 - Financial Mathematics

STAT7055 - Introductory Statistics for Business and Finance

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