37M Master of Finance (Specialisation)

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Overview 2020

Entry Requirements: See entry requirements

Duration: Minimum 2 Years, up to a maximum of 5 Years
Duration
Duration refers to the minimum and maximum amounts of time in which this course can be completed. It will be affected by whether you choose to study full or part time, noting that some programs are only available part time.

Location

Hobart: Semester 1, Semester 2

Full Fee Paying places available

This course may not be available to international students. Please see the list of distance courses (i.e. online and taken outside Australia) that are offered to international students

“It is allowing me to broaden my world view and connect to different students and people around the world. I am acquiring the professional skills required to break into the corporate world and finance industry.”

Jerrica Uy – Master of Finance (Specialisation)

The Master of Finance Specialisation is a 24 month full-time or part-time equivalent course offered by the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics. The course is full fee-paying, which means that you will be charged at the full fee-paying rate listed for each unit.

The UTAS MFinS is grounded in a philosophy based on two major premises: to facilitate the acquisition of life-long financial knowledge and skills through sharing and building on the diverse experiences of all stakeholders within the course and to foster empowerment and personal responsibility by encouraging students to challenge the conventional paradigms in finance.

Our MFinS will engage students using teaching materials that link the lectures and workshops to local, national and global case studies. This approach will facilitate self-actualisation and the notion ‘doing and thinking are one’; it will also equip our students with the theories, concepts, and knowledge in finance that are necessary to deal with the rapid changes in finance worldwide by covering a variety of perspectives, including, but not restricted to, the theoretical, empirical, behavioural, ethical, economic, environmental and statistical/mathematical.

Learning outcomes

CLO1	Explain the context and integrate advanced theoretical and technical finance knowledge including research and recent developments.
CLO2	Present, justify and defend, orally and in writing, financial information and decisions in complex collaborative contexts involving specialist and non-specialist audiences.
CLO3	Apply advanced theoretical and technical finance knowledge to critically analyse financial data to solve sophisticated financial problems in complex contexts. Prepare and execute a research-based project, capstone experience or piece of scholarship.
CLO4	Exercise judgement, under minimal guidance, to apply financial solutions using ethical, social, regulatory, economic, sustainability and global perspectives
CLO5	Reflect on and evaluate: * the nature and implications of assumptions and value judgements in analysis, * interactions with other disciplines, * historical and contemporary events affecting the finance profession, * responsibilities of their role in both the finance profession and in the broader society

Career outcomes

The MFinS will instill in students financial knowledge and skills that they can utilise throughout their future professional careers in the broader finance community both at the personal and institutional level including; financial planning, financial institutions, insurance, superannuation funds, not-for-profit organisations, government and local authorities as well as individuals.

Course structure

The Master of Finance (Specialisation) consists of 12 core units and 4 specialisation units (200 credit points).

Specialisations

Business Research
Data Management
Environmental Management

Please note: You may be required to complete BFA526 Financial Reporting if you have not completed the Graduate Certificate of Business Studies or can not demonstrate sufficient related study to BFA526 in your undergraduate degree. If this is the case your study plan will be adjusted to include BFA526 in the place of one of your degree electives.

Special note for students doing the Business Research specialisation

Entry into the Business Research specialisation is by invitation only. To be eligible you must have achieved a Distinction (DN) or higher average in the following core units: BEA602, BEA651, BEA652, BEA653, BEA705 and BEA706. The Course Coordinator will make contact with eligible students to discuss their intentions at the conclusion of their second semester of study.

The Business Research specialisation contains two options:

Option A: Minor Research Project – in this option you will complete a 25 credit point weighted project as well as undertaking BAA710 and BAA704.
Option B: Major Research Project – in this option you will complete a 50 credit point weighted project and will undertake BAA710 and BAA704 in place of the MFINS degree electives. This option is aimed at students intending to go on to a Higher Degree by Research.

Core units

You will complete the following 10 core units plus 2 elective units

BAA746

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 1
Hobart	Semester 2

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 1
Hobart	Semester 2

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 1
Hobart	Semester 2
Launceston	Semester 1

Location	Study period	Attendance options		Available to
Hobart	Semester 1
Hobart	Semester 2
Launceston	Semester 2

Master of Finance (Specialisation) (37M)

Overview 2020

Entry Requirements

Duration

Duration

Location

Career outcomes

Course structure

Specialisations

Special note for students doing the Business Research specialisation

Resource and Risk Management

Derivatives

Corporate Finance

Investment Analysis

Applied Quantitative Finance

Data and Business Decision Making

Economics for Managers

Financial Institutions and Markets

International Financial Management

Business and Corporate Law

If you are not taking the Major Project option within the Business Research specialisation - i.e. you are taking the Minor Project option or you are doing a different specialisation - then you may choose from any of these electives:

International Trade

Environmental Finance

Australian Tax Law

International Human Resource Management

If you are taking the Major Project option within the Business Research specialisation you must complete the following 2 units:

Research Methods and Analysis

Data Analysis and Management

Knowledge and Information Management

ICT Systems Strategy and Management

Enterprise Architecture and Systems

eLogistics

Planning and Managing for Sustainable Systems

Ecosystem Conservation

Protected Area Planning and Management Systems

Planning and Managing for Climate Change

Research Methods and Analysis

Research Project

Data Analysis and Management

Research Project

Entry requirements

Fees & scholarships

Domestic students

International students

International students

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