B2034 Bachelor of Finance

The course develops through the four themes of foundation commerce knowledge, specialist discipline knowledge, capstone experience, and elective study.

Part A. Foundation commerce knowledge

These units will provide you with a comprehensive study of economics and econometrics disciplines and the impact they have on multi-discipline decision-making in organisations. The units consider the impact on the business, professional and public policy communities.

Part B. Specialist discipline knowledge

These units will develop your capacity as a critical and creative professional who is able to apply your knowledge of finance to provide discipline based solutions to commerce. Units contained within the discipline may meet the requirements for professional accreditation bodies.

Part C. Capstone experience

The capstone unit is designed to consolidate the knowledge and skills acquired throughout the study of your specialisation.

Part D. Free elective study

This will enable you to further develop your knowledge of finance, or commerce more broadly, or to select any units from across the University in which you are eligible to enrol including to complete a major or minor from another course. 

You can enrich your degree to hone your academic and professional skills with a range of flagship rich experiences, including the Monash Immersion Guarantee and Global Immersion Guarantee - Study Abroad (monash.edu). These flagship rich experience units may be credited in place of your free electives if approved by the faculty. There are both 6 and 12 credit point unit options available.

Course progression map

The course progression map provides guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study.

You must complete units as specified in Parts A, B, C and D (144 points): including 96 points of study in Parts A, B and C, and 48 points of free electives in Part D.

In choosing their units, you must ensure that they complete no more than 10 units (60 points) at level 1 and at least six units (36 points) at level 3, including four units (24 points) at level 3 offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics.

Units are 6 points unless otherwise specified.

Part A. Foundation commerce knowledge (24 points)

You must complete:

• ECC1000 Principles of microeconomics
• ECC1100 Principles of macroeconomics / ECX1200 Macroeconomics
• ETC1000 Business and economic statistics / ETX1100 Business statistics
• ETC2410 Introductory econometrics

Part B. Specialist discipline knowledge and Part C. Capstone experience (72 points)

You must complete:

• ACC1100/ACX1100 Introduction to financial accounting or ACC1200/ACX1200 Accounting for managers
• BFC2140/BFX2140 Corporate finance 1
• BFC2751 Derivatives 1
• BFC3140 Corporate finance 2
• BFC3170 Management of financial intermediaries
• BFC3240 International finance
• BFC3241 Equities and investment analysis
• BFC3340 Derivatives 2
• BFC3341 Debt markets and fixed income securities
• BFC3540 Modelling in finance
• BFX3999 Finance and society*
• ETC3460 Financial econometrics

* Capstone unit.

Part D. Free elective study (48 points)

Electives can also be chosen from across the University, including to complete a major or minor from another course if you have met the required prerequisites and there are no restrictions on enrolling in the units. Enrolment in Faculty of Business and Economics units at campuses other than the campus of enrolment is subject to there being capacity after students from that campus have enrolled. You should also be aware of travel and timetabling limitations.

No more than two units can contribute towards two majors, or a major and a minor, in the same course (including a double degree course). The same unit is not credited towards two minors.

Electives can be identified using the [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/search][browse units]] tool and [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/][indexes of units]] in the current edition of the Handbook. [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/index-bydomain_type-major.html][Majors]] and [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/index-bydomain_type-minor.html][minors]] can also be identified using the Handbook indexes. The level of the unit is indicated by the first number in the unit code; undergraduate units are those that commence with the numbers 1-3. 

For students in a double degree course, some units required for the other degree are credited as electives towards this Finance degree.

You can enrich your degree to hone your academic and professional skills with a range of flagship rich experiences, including the Monash Immersion Guarantee and Global Immersion Guarantee - Study Abroad (monash.edu). These flagship rich experience units may be credited in place of your free electives if approved by the faculty. There are both 6 and 12 credit point unit options available.