Master of International Finance

2017 Deakin University Handbook

Course sub-headings

• Course overview
• Indicative student workload
• Fees and charges
• Course Learning Outcomes
• Course rules
• Specialisations
• Course structure
• Details of specialisations

Course overview

Finance professionals will be especially interested in Deakin’s Master of International Finance as the coursework and research components have been designed to enhance professional practice in a range of financial domains.

The course will give you an understanding of the modern financial techniques underpinning investment, financing and risk management decisions of multinational corporations. You’ll cover international financial markets, international corporate governance, alternative investments, derivative securities and international portfolio management.

You’ll develop analytical skills for making key financial management decisions, including time-value-of money and risk-return analysis, plus you’ll learn how to apply basic mathematics to solve real-world financial decision problems. Through practice, you’ll become adept to various digital technologies used to process complex financial data, information and ideas.

This course aims to provide a high-level education in finance issues and research methodologies. Depending on your unit choice, you may be eligible for membership to Finance and Treasury Association, Financial Planning Association and the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Indicative student workload

As a student in the Faculty of Business and Law, you can expect to participate in a range of teaching activities each week. This could include classes, seminars, practicals and online interaction. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.

Fees and charges

Fees and charges vary depending on your course, your fee category and the year you started. To find out about the fees and charges that apply to you, visit the Current students fees website.

Course Learning Outcomes

Course rules

To complete the Master of International Finance, students must attain a total of 16 credit points, consisting of 8 credit points of core units and 8 credit points of elective units (including 4 from a specified list) that may include a specialisation. Most units (think of units as 'subjects') are equal to 1 credit point.
4 credit points of electives must be selected from the specified list of electives.
The remaining 4 credit points of electives may be selected from:-

• a specialisation (and may form a specialisation), or

• the remaining units in the specified list of electives, or

• any Business and Law postgraduate units, subject to prior written approval of the Course Director, or

• a combination of the above.

Students are introduced to research tools and techniques in core units of the course where they learn analytic skills and the practical application of those skills in professional contexts. They must also complete advanced level units and a capstone unit that require them to integrate the skills learnt over their course of study and produce applied pieces of research with reference to prevailing literature.

Specialisations

Refer to the details of each specialisation for availability.

• Advanced Finance
• Finance Research Project
• Financial Planning
• Risk Management

Course structure

Elective units

Plus 4 credit points of units from:

Select 4 credit points of units from the remaining electives, or from the range of listed specialisations, or a combination of both.

Students may study other postgraduate units offered by the Faculty of Business and Law, subject to approval by the Course Director.

Course structure

Core units

Details of specialisations

Finance Research Project

Campuses

Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online)

Unit set code

SP-M75004

Units

Please note that all 4 credit points under the Finance Research Project specialisation must be undertaken together and cannot be studied separately.

^ 2 credit points

Details of specialisations

Financial Planning

Campuses

Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online)

Unit set code

SP-M75001

Units

plus a 1 credit point unit not previously studied in the Master of International Finance

~ previously coded MAF708

# previously coded MAF709

^ previously coded MAF765

Details of specialisations

Risk Management

Campuses

Burwood (Melbourne)

Unit set code

SP-M75002

Units

plus a 1 credit point unit not previously studied in the Master of International Finance

Details of specialisations

Advanced Finance

Campuses

Burwood (Melbourne)

Unit set code

SP-M75003

Units