Bachelor of Business (Finance)
Bachelor of Business (Finance)
Highlights Study capital planning, funds acquisition, stock broking, and investments management Take part in hands-on projects including quantitative data analysis, and practise your skills in our Securities Dealing Room. Prepare yourself for a career as a banking and finance professional, business analyst, corporate secretary, risk manager or investment manager. Meet…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Highlights
- Study capital planning, funds acquisition, stock broking, and investments management
- Take part in hands-on projects including quantitative data analysis, and practise your skills in our Securities Dealing Room.
- Prepare yourself for a career as a banking and finance professional, business analyst, corporate secretary, risk manager or investment manager.
- Meet the academic requirements for associate membership of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia
- You can also study this major as part of QUT’s new Bachelor of Business – International degree, which includes one year of compulsory overseas studies.
Why choose this course?
Finance is a dynamic field, focusing on the borrowing, lending, and investing of money by individuals, financial institutions, businesses and government organisations. Finance professionals analyse and interpret information to forecast cash flows and assess risk. They make decisions that maximise financial wealth. If you are fascinated by foreign investment, exchange rates, stock market fluctuations or corporate finance, consider a finance degree.
QUT’s finance major focuses on authentic learning to prepare you for the real world. You’ll be connected with industry and will benefit from listening to real-world practitioners as they explain how the value of investments changes over time.
Throughout this course you’ll take part in hands-on projects including capital investment appraisal, firm valuation, portfolio allocations and risk management, using up-to-date information from our Economics and Finance Bloomberg Lab.
The major begins with units on quantitative analysis and economics that extend your learning from the core units of our Bachelor of Business degree. You will then be exposed to core concepts and skills in finance, including financial instruments, capital planning, funds acquisition, asset and debt management, financial analysis, and investments management.
The finance capstone unit integrates learning across the major by giving you the opportunity to apply your skills to a variety of simulations of real-world situations in the finance industry.
Securities Dealing Room
QUT’s Securities Dealing Room gives you access to data from Bloomberg, providers of financial data to many of the world’s financial institutions. This comprehensive set of data on companies, commodities and economies will allow you, in your final-year project work, to conduct real-world financial analysis with the theories you have learned.
Careers and outcomes
As all organisations require finance professionals, there are an abundance of career opportunities in finance. Graduates can work in a variety of roles across fund management, investments, brokerage and insurance, or in banks, and private and listed firms.
Graduate positions include:
- financial analyst
- financial markets dealer
- commercial banker
- banking and finance professional
- corporate secretary
- investment manager
- stockbroker.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Study at The University of Queensland. Learn with leading academics in world-class facilities and join the most employable graduates in the state. At UQ you’ll benefit from flexible study options, field trips, lab work, industry placements, research experience, and online study in Brisbane, Australia.
