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Course Code: C7V

Location: Hobart

Duration: 1.5 years full-time. Part-time available*.
*Part-time studies are not available to international students.

Intake: February, July

Entry Requirements: Academic entry requirements: Australian Bachelor degree or equivalent.
This is course is not currently recommended for those with a Finance major in their undergraduate degree.

Additional Pre-requisites Nil

Description

Designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to analyse financial markets, taking into account regulatory principles, risk management and the use of specialised financial instruments. Emphasis will be placed on providing internationally applicable principles of finance and on the use of financial instruments as tools for risk management across a wide variety of situations.

Students are required to successfully complete ten core units and two elective units. 

Core units

  • BEA681  Data and Business Decision Making
  • BFA582 Financial Reporting & Analysis
  • BEA683 Economics for Managers
  • BEA705 Financial Institutions and Markets
  • BEA651 Corporate Finance
  • BEA702 International Financial Management
  • BEA650 Applied Quantitative Finance
  • BEA602 Derivatives
  • BEA704 Environmental Finance
  • BFA722 Risk Management

Elective units

  • BEA652 Investment Analysis                                 
  • BFA726 Corporate Law and Regulation                                 
  • BEA703 International Trade                                 
  • BMA777 International Human Resource Management                                 
  • KXI751 Management of Information Systems                                

This course offers participants from different academic backgrounds a qualification in finance. This will enable careers directly in banking and finance but also importantly contribute to the professional skills of the business, government and corporate world in dealing with the assessment and management of risk and resource distribution. The skills provided are increasingly important in decision making and appropriate management of scarce resources. The course particularly includes study in environmental finance.

Successfully completed postgraduate units in other courses at the University of Tasmania or another approved tertiary institution may be credited towards the degree. Credit is also available for some qualifications attained through professional bodies, where these have been assessed as equivalent to postgraduate study. Please apply for credit at the time of application for admission.

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