Table A - Finance
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The units of study listed in the following table are those available for the current year. Students may also include any units of study, which are additional to those currently listed, which appear under these subject areas in the Business School handbook/website in subsequent years (subject to any prerequisite or prohibition rules).
Please note. The following table lists Table A units for the specialisation only. For details of the Table A - Core, Table A - Foundational, Table A - Capstone, Table A - Selective and Table A - Elective units of study, please refer to Table A for the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Commerce or Table A for the Master of Commerce (Extension) sections in this handbook.
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Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Finance |
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Achievement of a specialisation in Finance requires 30 credit points from this table comprising: | |||
(i) 6 credit points of Table A - Foundational units of study* | |||
(ii) 6 credit points of Table A - Finance core units of study; and | |||
(iii) 18 credit points of Table A - Finance selective units of study. | |||
Students completing this specialisation to meet the requirements for the Master of Commerce or as their compulsory specialisation for the Master of Commerce (Extension) must complete a 6 credit point capstone unit related to the specialisation from Table A - Capstone units of study section in Table A for the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Commerce OR Table A for the Master of Commerce (Extension). | |||
Students completing this specialisation as an optional second specialisation for the Master of Commerce (Extension) do not need to complete a capstone unit. | |||
Units of study |
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The units of study are listed below. | |||
Table A - Foundational units of study* |
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* Note. Foundational units count to both the Foundational units of study for the course and the specialisation | |||
FINC5001 Foundation in Finance |
6 | Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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Table A - Finance |
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Core units of study |
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FINC6001 Finance: Theory to Applications |
6 | P FINC5001 Master of Commerce / Master of Commerce (Extension) students must complete this unit before the Capstone subject for this specialisation. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
Selective units of study |
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FINC5090 Finance in the Global Economy |
6 | C FINC5001 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
FINC6005 Advanced Asset Pricing This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P FINC5001 or FINC6000 Refer to the unit of study outline https://www.sydney.edu.au/units |
Semester 1 |
FINC6010 Derivative Securities |
6 | P FINC5001 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
FINC6013 International Business Finance |
6 | P FINC5001 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
FINC6014 Fixed Income Securities |
6 | P FINC5001 |
Semester 2 |
FINC6015 Trading in Modern Financial Markets |
6 | P FINC5001 |
Semester 2 |
FINC6017 Mergers and Acquisitions |
6 | A Calculation of free cash flows, trading multiples, discounted cash flow valuation methodology, valuation sensitivities, regression analysis. P FINC5001 N ACCT6011 |
Semester 2 |
FINC6021 Corporate Valuation |
6 | P FINC5001 |
Semester 1 |
FINC6023 Financial Risk Management |
6 | P FINC5001 |
Semester 1 |
FINC6025 Entrepreneurial Finance |
6 | P FINC5001 |
Semester 1 |
FINC6031 Financial Intermediary Management |
6 | P FINC5001 N BANK6002 |
Semester 2 |