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Bachelor of Applied Finance

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Faculty:
Faculty of Business and Economics
Department:
Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies
Award:
Bachelor of Applied Finance (BAppFin)
Study Mode:
Full-time, Part-time
Attendance Mode:
Internal
Candidature Length:
Full-time: 3 years
Study Period Offerings:
Session 1 (March), Session 2 (August)
General requirements:
Minimum number of credit points for the degree 69
Minimum number of credit points at 200 level or above 39
Minimum number of credit points at 300 level or above 18
Minimum number of credit points designated as Commerce 42
Completion of a designated People unit
Completion of a designated Planet unit
Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below
Note:
Students must complete one designated People unit and one designated Planet unit. One of those units must be taken outside the Department administering the program of study which the student is admitted to, and the other unit must be taken outside the Faculty administering the program of study which the student is admitted to. Units which are already a required unit of the student's program of study will not satisfy the People unit requirement or Planet unit requirement.

In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.

Specific minimum requirements:

Credit points

100 level

Required
3
Techniques and Elements of Finance (3)
 
Required
3
Macroeconomic Principles (3)
 
Required
3
Microeconomic Principles (3)
 
Required
either
or
 
Accounting IA (3)
 
3
Accounting Information for Decision-Making (3)
 
Required
either
or
 
Introductory Statistics (3)
 
3
Statistical Data Analysis (3)
 

200 level

Required
either
or
 
Applied Financial Analysis and Management (3)
 
3
Investments (3)
 
Required
either
or
 
Financial Modelling (3)
 
3
Mathematics of Finance (3)
 
Required
either
or
 
Microeconomic Analysis (3)
 
3
Macroeconomic Analysis (3)
 
Required
3cp from
 
Introductory Econometrics (3)
 
 
Statistics I (3)
 
3
Probability (3)
 

300 level

Required
3
Issues in Applied Finance (3)
C
Required
3
Financial Econometrics (3)
 
Required
9cp from
 
Quantitative Asset and Liability Modelling 1 (3)
 
 
Financial Risk Management (3)
 
 
Security Pricing and Hedging (3)
 
 
Applied Portfolio Management (3)
 
9
Corporate Financial Design (3)
 
Required
3cp from
 
The Economics of Financial Institutions (3)
 
 
Money and Finance (3)
 
3
International Finance (3)
 

Balance of credit points required:

 
 
24
Electives

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM

69
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.