Become essential to the success of any business.
Learn about emerging finance, such as cryptocurrency, as well as the traditional finance practices which underpin all businesses. Taught by skilled financial experts, you’ll learn to manage risks, understand the value of shares and bonds, create investments, and use cutting-edge financial programming software.
Through an industry consulting project with a real-life client, such as Acrodyne, Build Pass, Epilepsy Foundation, Inception Point, Inclusion Melbourne and Lend For Good, you’ll gain the confidence to hit the ground running when you graduate. These essential engagements will equip you to jump into the workforce with ease upon graduation.
The Finance major is recognised under the CFA Institute Affiliated University. The course covers at least 70% of Level 1 of the CFA program Candidate Body of Knowledge (CBOK) placing emphasis on the CFA Institute Codes of Ethics and Standards of Practice. This recognition signals to students, employers and the marketplace that that Swinburne’s curriculum is closely tied to professional practice and is well-suited to prepare you for employment in the finance and investment industry, and for sitting the CFA examination. Students of the Finance major may be eligible for CFA Program Student Scholarships.
What will you learn?
- Financial Management: Understand the role of finance within corporate management, focusing on its’ goals and functions, as well as risk and return.
- Economic Principles: Learn how to recognise microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts and how they improve decision making and policies.
- Fixed Income & Debt Markets: Learn to analyse credit and interest risk and evaluate ethical issues relating to investments and financial technologies.
- International Trade & Finance: Examine solutions to current international issues based on research from a variety of sources.
- Management of Investment Portfolios: Examine contemporary issues in the emerging investment markets.
