Business - Finance Swinburne Online

Overview

Within the Business - Finance BA degree from Swinburne Online you'll 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.

What you will 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.

Career outcomes

• Accountant

• Stockbroker

• Entrepreneur

• Business Analyst

• Analyst

• Financial Analyst

• Business Development Manager

Accreditation

• 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.