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Master of Finance (Specialisation)
PostgraduateTAS-FSP-MAS2022
Course information for 2022 intake
Specialise in the corporate world and finance industry
In addition to developing a critical understanding of the complex field of finance, this Masters degree offers specialisations in business research, data management, and environmental management. Specialise and unlock your international career.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Total subjects
- 16
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
Master of Finance (Specialisation)
About this degree
Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- Explain the context and integrate advanced theoretical and technical finance knowledge including research and recent developments.
- Present, justify and defend, orally and in writing, financial information and decisions in complex collaborative contexts involving specialist and non-specialist audiences.
- Apply advanced theoretical and technical finance knowledge to critically analyse financial data to solve sophisticated financial problems in complex contexts. Prepare and execute a research-based project, capstone experience or piece of scholarship.
- Exercise judgement, under minimal guidance, to apply financial solutions using ethical, social, regulatory, economic, sustainability and global perspectives.
- Reflect on and evaluate: • the nature and implications of assumptions and value judgements in analysis, • interactions with other disciplines, • historical and contemporary events affecting the finance profession, • responsibilities of their role in both the finance profession and in the broader society.
Note: This program will not be offered in 2023. Students who wish to study Master of Finance (Specialisation), please check the newly structured Master of Finance program (TAS-FIN-MAS).
The Master of Finance Specialisation is a 24 month full-time or part-time equivalent course offered by the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics. The course is full fee-paying, which means that you will be charged at the full fee-paying rate listed for each subject.
The UTAS Master of Finance (Specialisation) is grounded in a philosophy based on two major premises: to facilitate the acquisition of life-long financial knowledge and skills through sharing and building on the diverse experiences of all stakeholders within the course and to foster empowerment and personal responsibility by encouraging students to challenge the conventional paradigms in finance.
Our Master of Finance (Specialisation) will engage students using teaching materials that link the lectures and workshops to local, national and global case studies. This approach will facilitate self-actualisation and the notion ‘doing and thinking are one’; it will also equip our students with the theories, concepts, and knowledge in finance that are necessary to deal with the rapid changes in finance worldwide by covering a variety of perspectives, including, but not restricted to, the theoretical, empirical, behavioural, ethical, economic, environmental and statistical/mathematical.
Recommended study pattern
For students undertaking full-time study the following study pattern is recommended:
10 Core subjects from the followings:
- TAS-BEA651 Corporate Finance
- TAS-BEA653 Applied Quantitative Finance
- TAS-BEA674 Data and Business Decision Making
- TAS-BEA683 Economics for Managers
- TAS-BEA705 Financial Institutions and Markets
- TAS-BEA706 International Financial Management
- TAS-BFA601 Business and Corporate Law
- TAS-BFA607 Investment Planning
- TAS-BFA746 Pathway to Accounting and Finance Careers
1 Specialisation from one of the following majors:
- Business Research
- Option A - Minor Project
- 2 Electives from the following subjects:
- TAS-BEA704 Sustainable Finance
- TAS-BFA714 Australian Tax Law
- TAS-JNB513 International Human Resource Management
- 3 Major subjects from the following subjects:
- TAS-BAA704 Research Methods and Analysis
- TAS-BAA705 Research Project (equal to 2 subjects)
- TAS-BAA710 Data Analysis and Management
- 2 Electives from the following subjects:
- Option B - Major Project
- 2 Electives from the following subjects:
- BAA704 Research Methods and Analysis
- BAA710 Data Analysis and Management
- 1 Major subject
- BAA739 Research Project (equal to 4 subjects)
- 2 Electives from the following subjects:
- Option A - Minor Project
- Data Management
- 2 Electives from the following subjects:
- TAS-BEA704 Sustainable Finance
- TAS-BFA714 Australian Tax Law
- TAS-JNB513 International Human Resource Management
- 4 Major subjects from the following subjects:
- TAS-KIT707 Knowledge and Information Management
- TAS-KIT708 ICT Systems Strategy and Management
- TAS-KIT709 Enterprise Architecture and Systems
- TAS-KIT710 eLogistics
- 2 Electives from the following subjects:
- Environmental Management
- 2 Electives from the following subjects:
- TAS-BEA704 Sustainable Finance
- TAS-BFA714 Australian Tax Law
- TAS-JNB513 International Human Resource Management
- 2-3 Major subjects from the following subjects:
- TAS-KGA507 Earth, Climate and Life
- TAS-KGA508 Ecosystem Conservation
- TAS-KGA517 Protected Area Planning and Management Systems (equal to 2 subjects)
- TAS-KGA705 Climate Change: Economics, Politics and Planning (equal to 2 subjects)
- 2 Electives from the following subjects:
Award requirements
Successful completion of 16 subjects as outlined in the recommended study pattern within 2-5 years, from the time of first enrolment.
Degrees are usually made up of core subjects and electives. Some degrees include a choice of majors, so you can focus your studies on a specialisation.
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Indicative total fee $42,630
The amount shown here is indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
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Entry requirements
- Successful completion an undergraduate degree of an Australian higher education institution or the equivalent standard in any other institution; OR
- Successful completion the Graduate Certificate of Business Studies at the University of Tasmania, or an equivalent qualifying Graduate Certificate from any other institution (a qualifying Graduate Certificate is any Graduate Certificate from an Australian higher education institution, or the equivalent from any other institution).
Students who have completed a Master of Finance with the University of Tasmania may articulate in the Master of Finance (Specialisation) with full credit. Students may undertake a pathway via the Graduate Certificate in Business Studies, but the subjects completed therein do not provide credit toward the Master of Finance (Specialisation).
The University of Tasmania grants credit and recognition of prior learning that may include formal and/or informal prior learning. More information is available here.
https://www.utas.edu.au/study/apply/admission-requirements/recognition-of-prior-learning
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