Students must pass and achieve a grade average of 70% across the first 48 units attempted to progress to the second year of the program or to another Faculty 2 Year Masters program. Students who fail to achieve this requirement will be transferred to the Master of Financial Management program with 48 units of status.

Degree Structure

The program is 96 units consisting of 84 units of core courses and 12 units of elective courses.

The program will be a combination of intensive mode and semester length courses. All 6 unit semester length courses are taught in semester length mode. 3 unit courses are generally taught in intensive mode.

Core Courses (84 units)

Year 1

Candidates exempted from any of these courses are required to substitute the advanced equivalent or substitute an applied statistics or econometrics course from the list of elective courses below.

• BUSN7008 Financial Statements and Reporting (6 units)
• FINM7006 Financial Markets and Systems (6 units)
• FINM7007 Financial Management (6 units)
• FINM7008 Applied Investments (6 units)
  
• FINM7009 Financial Policy and Corporate Strategy (6 units)
• FINM7041 Applied Financial Instruments and Risk Management (6 units)
• FINM7042 Applied International Financial Management (6 units)
• STAT7055 Quantitative Methods (6 units)
  

Year 2

• FINM8001 Research Project in Finance (6 units)
• FINM8004 Advanced Corporate Finance (6 units)
• FINM8006 Advanced Investments (6 units)
• FINM8007 International Finance (6 units)
• FINM8009 Derivative Instruments and Markets (6 units)
• STAT8010 Research Methods and Data Analysis (6 units) 

Elective Courses (12 units)

Elective courses to the value of 12 units are to be chosen from the current postgraduate courses offered within the faculty. Elective courses include:

• EMET8005 Econometric Models and Introductory Econometrics (6 units)
• FINM7003 Continuous Time Finance (6 units)
• FINM7021 Funds Management (3 units)
• FINM7024 International Financial Concepts (3 units)
• FINM7031 Special Topics in Financial Management (3 units)
• FINM7036 Financial Spreadsheet Techniques (3 units)
• FINM7039 Financial Management Systems (3 units)
• FINM7040 Venture Capital and Private Equity (3 units)
• STAT6038 Regression Modelling (6 units)
• STAT7026 Graphical Data Analysis (6 units)

Students are encouraged to take a minor sequence of study (12 units) in quantitative courses in their electives.

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