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Program Requirements

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.

 

Program Requirements

The program is 96 units consisting of 78 units of core courses and 18 units of elective courses.

Year 1

  • BUSN7008 Financial Statements and Reporting (6 units)
  • FINM7006 Financial Markets and Systems (6 units)
  • FINM7007 Financial Management (6 units)
  • FINM7008 Applied Investments (6 units)
  • FINM7041 Applied Financial Instruments and Risk Management (6 units)
  • FINM7004 Applied Financial Intermediation and Debt Markets (6 units)
  • STAT7055 Financial Statistics (6 units)
  • Any post-graduate CBE course (6 units) with coordinator approval

Year 2

  • FINM7009 Financial Policy and Corporate Strategy (6 units)
  • FINM8004 Advanced Corporate Finance (6 units)
  • FINM8006 Advanced Investments (6 units)
  • FINM8009 Derivative Instruments and Markets (6 units)
  • STAT8010 Managing the Research Process (6 units) 
  • Either:      
    • FINM7011 Applied Research Project 1 (6 units) and 2 electives from the list below; or
    •  FINM8001 Research Project in Finance (12 units)* and 1 elective from the list below

*NOTE: Enrolment in FINM8001 requires approval of the Program Convenor.

 

Elective Courses

MKTG7003 Financial Services Marketing (6 units)
STAT6006 Marketing Research Methods (6 units)
STAT6038 Regression Modelling (6 units)
STAT6039 Principles of Mathematical Statistics (6 units)
STAT7001 Applied Statistics (6 units)
STAT7007 Advanced Marketing Research (6 units)
STAT7012 Applied Research Project 2 (6 units)
STAT7026 Graphical Data Analysis (6 units)
STAT7029 Design of Experiments and Surveys (6 units)
STAT7030 Generalised Linear Modelling (6 units)
STAT8002 Applied Time Series Analysis (6 units)
STAT8027 Statistical Inference (6 units)

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