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
Graduates who have successfully completed the specialisation in finance will be able to:
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.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, which must consist of:
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 |
| FINM7041 | Applied Derivatives | 6 |
| FINM7044 | Applied Valuation | 6 |
| FINM8004 | Advanced Corporate Finance | 6 |
| FINM8006 | Advanced Investments | 6 |
| FINM8007 | Topics in International Finance | 6 |
| FINM8009 | Derivatives: Markets, Valuation and Risk Management | 6 |
| FINM8014 | Applied Financial Intermediation and Debt Markets | 6 |
| FINM8016 | Applied Portfolio Construction | 6 |
| FINM8017 | Trading and Markets | 6 |
| FINM8100 | Applied Project in Finance | 6 |
| STAT6046 | Financial Mathematics | 6 |
| STAT7055 | Introductory Statistics for Business and Finance | 6 |