Overview 2018
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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
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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
The below course learning outcomes have been mapped across the TSBE mission, the AQF and the UTAS graduate quality statement:
Sub-Course Learning Outcomes (Level 500/600) | Course Learning Outcomes (Level 700) |
ScLO1. Explain the context and integrate theoretical and technical finance knowledge. | CLO1. Explain the context and integrate advanced theoretical and technical finance knowledge including research and recent developments. |
ScLO2. Present and justify, orally and in writing, financial information and decisions in straightforward collaborative contexts involving specialist and non-specialist audiences | CLO2. Present, justify and defend, orally and in writing, financial information and decisions in complex collaborative contexts involving specialist and non-specialist audiences. |
ScLO3. Apply theoretical and technical finance knowledge to critically analyse financial data to solve rudimentary financial problems in straightforward contexts. | 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. |
ScLO4. Exercise judgement, under guidance, to apply financial solutions using ethical, social, regulatory, economic, sustainability and global perspectives. | CLO4. Exercise judgement, under minimal guidance, to apply financial solutions using ethical, social, regulatory, economic, sustainability and global perspectives |
ScLO5. Reflect on: * 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. | 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
Core units
You will complete the following 10 core units plus 2 elective units
This unit introduces you to statistical methods that are useful in the decision making process. It seeks to provide you with basic statistical knowledge for analysing data, and aims to develop your skills in using appropriate statistical methods to make…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for BEA674 Data and Business Decision Making
The unit aims to develop your understanding of economics. This is achieved by identifying significant economic issues and problems facing Australia, with an investigation of possible courses of action for businesses and other organisations. You will examine the role of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
This unit covers a wide range of interesting legal topics and teaches you how to analyse, and solve legal problems, all essential skills for those wishing to work in both the fields of accounting and business management.The unit combines topics…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
This unit is concerned with Corporate Finance, which involves financing and managing the resources of a business. In Corporate Finance, the central issues are how to acquire and employ or invest funds. You will explore concepts as a set of…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Investment analysis requires skills in both analysing the attributes of individual assets, and in knowing how to combine them effectively into portfolios. In this unit you will consider the attributes of individual asset types: equity, fixed income and corporate debt…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
Most businesses operate in global financial markets, and very few facets of financial management are as important as managing exchange rate risk. This unit is designed to provide you with the skills necessary to understand and address some of the…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for BEA706 International Financial Management
Risk Management of organisations is about minimising adversity and maximising the probability that business can continue to operate in periods of unavoidable adversity. This unit will provide an introduction to the principles and processes involved in risk management, and explore…
Credit Points: 12.5
This unit is currently unavailable.
Financial market shocks often spread rapidly across different asset classes and between countries. In this unit you will examine the structural reasons for these interrelationships, including financial intermediation, risk management products and regulatory structure. Attention is paid to the challenge…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for BEA705 Financial Institutions and Markets
Derivative securities are (as the name suggests) derived from other securities. Hence, their role in risk mitigation, is of central importance. The unit is structured into three main modules: Options, Futures and Swaps. Topics covered include currency and futures contracts,…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
There are two main objectives in applied quantitative finance. The first is to understand how prices behave. Tomorrow's price is uncertain and must therefore be described by a probability distribution. This means that statistical and econometric methods are the natural…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Elective units
Students from a non-business academic background MUST complete BFA526 as one of their elective units
The Financial Reporting and Analysis unit aims to develop your ability to understand, analyse and interpret corporate financial statements and financial information. Consideration will be given to the underlying concepts and regulatory requirements that underlie the preparation of financial reports.…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Financing of environmental concerns, such as climate change, is an increasingly important aspect of the international policy agenda. This unit covers the different types of economic and financial instruments relevant to current and proposed markets in ecosystem services. It includes…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
The aim of this unit is to provide an overview of the management of human resources transcending geographical and cultural boundaries. It examines complexities and variances in human resource practices such as recruitment training, staffing and compensation applying in different…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for BMA777 International Human Resource Management
International business, which refers to a wide range of business activities undertaken across national borders, has been growing dramatically over the past several decades and drawing the attention of business practitioners, government officials and academics. Although international business has many…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for BMA534 International Business Management
This unit provides you with an overview of a wide range of issues related to international trade and international economics. We investigate why nations trade, what they trade and who gains from this trade. We then analyse the motives for…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
Data Management Specialisation
This unit aims to present a coherent view on the role of information and knowledge in organisations from a multidisciplinary perspective. Students gain an appreciation of the sources of information, unstructured and semi-structured knowledge and learn current techniques that permit…
Credit Points: 12.5
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for KIT707 Knowledge and Information Management
The unit explores contemporary supply chain logistics for organisations from Informational, Communication and Technological (ICT) perspectives. Specifically, the unit develops conceptual knowledge across the supply chains logistics field, by examining ICTs concepts at the strategic, tactical and operational layers of…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit provides students with an understanding of the management issues surrounding information technology (IT), the knowledge of management functions and responsibilities necessary for IT managers, and the knowledge to apply IT management principles in the organisational environment. Students will…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
| Launceston | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for KIT708 ICT Systems Strategy and Management
Organizations around the world are increasingly using commercial packages instead of custom built software to support their core business processes. In this unit students explore enterprise architecture with a focus on business process integration and process standardization. Students examine major…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Spring school (late) | ||||
| Hobart | 5 Week Session Sep | ||||
View all details for KIT709 Enterprise Architecture and Systems
Environmental Management Specialisation
Choose any two of the following:
Want to learn more about ecology and conservation? Are you interested in the science behind the conservation stories in your daily news? This unit offers you a pathway to understanding the science of ecology and how physical systems interact with…
Credit Points: 25
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit provides you with a practical understanding of key systems for protected area planning and management. Terrestrial, freshwater and marine protected areas are considered. The global context of protected areas is analysed, including issues of definition, scope and governance.…
Credit Points: 25
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
View all details for KGA517 Protected Area Planning and Management Systems
This unit develops an understanding of how instruments of power and organisation can be shaped through effective planning and management, to foster sustainable systems of production and consumption. We begin our journey by examining the concept and interpretations of sustainable…
Credit Points: 25
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 2 | ||||
View all details for KGA514 Planning and Managing for Sustainable Systems
This on-line unit provides a foundation for advanced studies in planning and management for climate change. Development of professional competencies in this field is a core objective. The unit consists of modules that introduce students to basic climate adaptation knowledge…
Credit Points: 25
This unit is currently unavailable.
View all details for KGA518 Planning and Managing for Climate Change
Business Research Specialisation
Please note: you are required to maintain distinction average in the core units in order to undertake the Business Research specialisation
This unit supports students completing MBA Research or Workplace Projects to develop and implement a research program. Seminars and practical activities develop an understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of research, the purpose of research methodology and the evaluation of research…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Semester 1 | ||||
This unit explores the management and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data. Seminars and practical sessions explore the principles and practices of organising and analysing data using software support. The qualitative component explores computer-supported analysis using NVivo. Topics include data…
Credit Points: 12.5
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Winter school (early) | ||||
This unit provides students with the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained in the MBA (Health Management) core units to a significant research project in a relevant setting. It provides students with the opportunity to: formulate a testable research question;…
Credit Points: 25
| Location | Study period | Attendance options | Available to | ||
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| Hobart | Spring school (extended) | ||||
Entry requirements
Admission Prerequisites
For entry into the Master of Finance (Specialisation) students must meet the following criteria:
Either:
- Completed undergraduate degree of an Australian higher education institution or the equivalent standard in any other institution
OR
- Completion of the Graduate Certificate of Business Studies at the University of Tasmania, or an equivalent qualifying Graduate Certificate#
#a qualifying Graduate Certificate is any Graduate Certificate from an Australian higher education institution, or the equivalent from any other institution.
International students must provide one of the following: UTASAccess Level 7 with a minimum overall score of 65% and no individual skill below 60%; or an IELTS score with an overall Band of 6.5 and no band less than 6; or a TOEFL (iBT) overall score of 88 (no individual skill must be lower than: Reading 16; Listening16; Speaking 18; and, Writing 22) or a PTE Academic overall score of 58 with no score lower than 50, or provide evidence that you have studied for 2 years full-time with English as the sole medium of instruction and examination. These tests must not be more than 24 months old.
Credit transfer
Articulation from
Students who have completed a Master of Finance with the University of Tasmania may articulate in the Master of Finance (Specialisation) with full credit.
Students may undertake a pathway via the Graduate Certificate in Business Studies, but the units completed therein do not provide credit toward the MFinS.
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Domestic students enrolled in a full fee paying place are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the fees you pay for each unit you enrol in. Full fee paying domestic students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Domestic students enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place will be charged a fee based on the number of units a student enrols in. In 2018, this fee is $44.70 per unit. In 2018, the maximum charge for full time students is $298.
International students
2018 Annual Tuition Fee (international students): $32,000 AUD.
Annual Tuition Fee is inclusive of the compulsory Student Services and Amenities (SSA) fee.
<default>International students are charged the Student Services and Amenities Fee but this fee is incorporated in the annual rate. International students do not have to make any additional SSAF payments.
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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