Members of the Finance Honours cohort are required to undertake four courses and prepare a finance-related dissertation in order to complete the Honours year. The coursework component usually comprises the core courses FINM8004 Advanced Corporate Finance and STAT8010 Managing the Research Process and two electives chosen from among FINM8006 Advanced Investments, FINM8007 International Finance, FINM8009 Derivative Instruments and Markets and FINM8011 Empirical Finance.  Finance Honours students who have also satisfied the criteria for entry into honours in Actuarial Studies, are also permitted to study STAT4031 Actuarial Control Cycle 1 and STAT4032 Actuarial Control Cycle 2.  Course substitutions may be allowable with the approval of the Convenor.

Students requiring further information regarding the Finance Honours program should contact the Convenor directly.

Students interested in the Honours program must express their interest to the Finance Honours convenor by September 30 in the year before they wish to commence the program. There is no mid-year entry into the Finance Honours program. Typically, a maximum of 10 students will be allowed to enter the program in any given year. Invitations are issued on the basis of student performance in the core finance courses FINM2001 Corporate Finance and FINM2002 Financial Instruments and Risk Management, as well as in at least one of the advanced pairings of FINM3001 Investments and FINM3005 Corporate Valuation or FINM3003 Continuous Time Finance and FINM3007 Advanced Derivative Pricing and Applications. Further, to be eligible for invitation to join the program, students must have attained at least a mid-credit in either STAT2008 Regression Modelling or EMET2007 Econometrics I: Econometric Methods.

For further information please refer to http://ecocomm.anu.edu.au/courses/course.asp?code=FINM4004