Financial Planning Skills
UndergraduateGRF-AFE3202025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 26 Oct 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $4,248
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Financial Planning Skills
About this subject
After successfully completing this course you should be able to:
- Apply advanced communication skills and professional competencies in financial planning and business contexts
- Compose a compliant client file that would pass an AMP independent audit
- Integrate compliant and ethical practice in the provision of financial advice
- Practice self-reflection, reframing and gratitude by adopting positive psychology techniques
- Display an advanced level of knowledge and skills in critical analysis and decision making
- The role of the financial adviser
- Meeting with clients
- Introduction to documentation and compliance
- Effective engagement
- Advice documentation and fact finding
- Communicating the Statement of Advice
This course focuses on developing skills to engage with clients in a real-world context and is delivered by experienced industry professionals via online learning over twelve weeks. This course maps to a number of National Financial Adviser Curriculum core knowledge areas. In particular, we focus on client relationships and consumer behaviour, which includes coverage of the following: Communication in a professional context, providing information about services to clients (FSG, PDS), collecting information from clients and setting goals, understanding self and others, interpersonal communication skills, the importance of client cues and prompts such as body language, tone of voice, how to create and build trust, fiduciary duty, ethical and professional conduct, legislated 'client best interests' requirement, risk profiling vs investment behaviour, managing the ongoing relationship and conflict resolution.
- Participation and journal reflections (10%)
- Client engagement. Workplace based Assessment (60%)
- Electronic client file audit (30%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- GRF-AFA-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Applied Financial Advice
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Audio/Visual equipment
Study load
- 0.25 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 20 to 24 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Applied Financial Advice
UndergraduateGRF-AFA-DEG