Overview
Overview
Finance professionals operate globally with great flexibility, helping people and companies manage financial matters, set their financial goals and make investment decisions. They work in a range of areas, including corporate finance, financial markets, managed funds, superannuation, banking, and private wealth management.
In this course you’ll learn about the role, structure, and operations of financial markets, and how to make decisions on investments, funding activities and disbursement of profits. You’ll become skilled at providing finance solutions and advice on starting or expanding businesses, drawing on acquired knowledge in capital budgeting, financial risk management, cash flow and profitability analyses.
You’ll develop strong practical skills using the industry-standard Refinitiv Workspace software for trading and analysis, and simulated trading through StockTrak. You could also begin building your professional network, with opportunities to engage with industry professionals through internships, guest lectures and industry events, such as the CFA Institute Research Challenge.
The finance industry is a dynamic area that offers challenging careers with high earning potential. This versatile major can be tailored to suit a particular career, or complemented with other business areas, such as Accounting or Economics, to provide broad career options.
If you wish to pursue a career as a financial planner, we recommend studying our double major in Finance and Financial Planning.
Parent degrees
You can study this major under the following degrees:
- Bachelor of Commerce (as a single or double major)
- Bachelor of Commerce (Advanced) (as a single or double major)
- Bachelor of Innovation (as a single major)
- Bachelor of Arts (as a double major with an Arts major)
Your choice of parent degree can influence the type of career you might have.
Our Commerce degree also offers additional opportunities to customise your course by offering specialisations as well as majors.
Double degree
You can study our Economics major as part of the following double degrees:
What jobs can the Finance course lead to?
- Credit analyst
- Finance manager/consultant
- Innovation consultant/analyst
- Investment banker/analyst
- Portfolio manager
- Stockbroker/trader
What jobs can a Finance double major lead to?
- Financial planner (with Financial Planning)
- Corporate accountant (with Accounting)
- Economist/Economic analyst (with Economics)
- Financial journalist/business writer (with Journalism)
- Tax consultant (with Taxation)
- Property/real estate investment analyst (with Property Investment and Development)
- International trade analyst (with International Business)
- Quantitative analyst (with Data Science or Mathematics)
- Environmental financial analyst (with Coastal and Marine Science or Environmental Biology)
What you'll learn
- identify, understand, and solve complex corporate finance and investment problems to create solutions in a changing global financial environment, GC1, GC3, GC4, GC5, GC6
- communicate complex quantitative and qualitative financial analysis professionally, clearly, and persuasively that contribute to profitable, environmentally sustainable, and ethically responsible financial decisions, GC1, GC3, GC4, GC5, GC6
- acquire and utilise relevant financial technologies, and methodologies to critically analyse financial problems in ways that demonstrate creative thinking and responsible judgement, GC1, GC3, GC4, GC5, GC6
- demonstrate a well-developed understanding of the role the finance industry has on ethical decision making and influencing positive sustainable development goals in culturally diverse societies, GC1, GC2, GC3, GC4, GC5, GC6
- demonstrate industry readiness and emotional intelligence acquired individually and in groups through the use of industry-specific technologies applicable to current and future innovations in corporate, investment, and international finance, GC1, GC2, GC3, GC4, GC5, GC6
