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
- Recognise the important role of financial principles and their application;
- Demonstrate the necessary analytical skills for interpreting and analyzing financial information;
- Demonstrate well developed insight into the Australian and international financial markets;
- 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,
- Demonstrate the skills necessary to critically engage with and evaluate financial problems.
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
24 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| BUSN7008 | Financial Statements and Reporting | 6 |
| ECON8069 | Business Economics | 6 |
| FINM7006 | Applied Foundations of Finance | 6 |
| FINM7007 | Applied Corporate Finance | 6 |
| FINM7008 | Applied Investments | 6 |
| FINM 7041: Applied Derivatives | ||
| FINM 7044: Applied Valuation | ||
| FINM8004 | Advanced Corporate Finance | 6 |
| FINM8006 | Advanced Investments | 6 |
| FINM8007 | Topics in International Finance | 6 |
| FINM 8009: Derivatives | ||
| FINM8014 | Applied Financial Intermediation and Debt Markets | 6 |
| FINM 8016: Applied Portfolio Construction | ||
| FINM8017 | Trading and Markets | 6 |
| FINM8100 | Applied Project in Finance | 6 |
| STAT6046 | Financial Mathematics | 6 |
| STAT7055 | Introductory Statistics for Business and Finance | 6 |