2009 Course Handbook
APFN01 - Applied Finance (Undergraduate Study Pattern)
| Major: | Applied Finance |
| Area of Study: | Finance |
| Degree: | BAppFin - Bachelor of Applied Finance (UAC Preference 300201 CSP) |
| Offered By: |
The Department of Accounting and Finance The Department of Economics The Faculty of Business and Economics |
General Requirements
| Minimum number of credit points | 68 |
| Maximum number of credit points at 100 level | 30 |
| Minimum number of credit points in units at 300 level or above designated as commerce or economics units | 18 |
| and completion of other specific requirements as set out below |
Specific Requirements
| 100 level | ||||
| Required | ACST101 | Techniques and Elements of Finance (3) | 3 | |
| Required | ECON110 | Macroeconomic Principles (3) | 3 | |
| Required | ECON111 | Microeconomic Principles (3) | 3 | |
| Required | ECON141 | Introductory Econometrics (3) | 3 | |
| Required | either | both ACCG100 - Accounting IA (3) and ACCG101 - Accounting IB (3) |
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| or | ACCG105 | Introductory Financial Accounting (3) | 3 | |
| Required | either | STAT170 | Introductory Statistics (3) | |
| or | STAT171 | Statistical Data Analysis (3) | 3 | |
| Required | one of | COMP units | ||
| ISYS units | 3 | |||
| 200 level | ||||
| Required | ACCG253 | Financial Management (3) | 3 | |
| Required | ACST201 | Financial Techniques, Instruments and Markets (3) | 3 | |
| Required | either | ECON200 | Microeconomic Analysis (4) | |
| or | ECON201 | Macroeconomic Analysis (4) | 4 | |
| 300 level | ||||
| Required | FIN310 | Issues in Applied Finance (3) | 3 | |
| Required | two of | ECON335 | The Economics of Financial Institutions (3) | |
| ECON350 | Money and Finance (3) | |||
| ECON360 | International Finance (3) | 6 | ||
| Required | two of | ACCG329 | Security Pricing and Hedging (3) | |
| ACCG352 | Applied Portfolio Management (3) | |||
| ACCG353 | Corporate Financial Design (3) | |||
| ACST300 | Insurance and Superannuation Practice (4) | |||
| ACST305 | Quantitative Methods for Asset Liability Management (4) | 6 | ||
| Electives | ||||
| Balance of credit points required | 22 | |||
| TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM | 68 | |||
Notes
Notes: students completing the double degree of BAppFin BCom-Actuarial Studies are not required to enrol in the unit ECON141. ACST200 may be substituted for (ACCG253 and ACST201).