Bachelor of Corporate Finance (BCorpFin)
Bachelor of Corporate Finance (BCorpFin)
Program Code
BCOFI
Program Faculty
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Academic Year
2020
These Program Rules should be read in conjunction with the University's policies (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies).
Overview
The Bachelor of Corporate Finance provides students with a solid foundation in the tools and techniques that financial managers use to make investment and financing decisions and how they use financial instruments and capital markets to enhance returns and manage risks. The program introduces management theory, business mathematics, business law and economics; additionally students develop advanced analytical and decision-making skills needed for leadership roles. Alongside the professional knowledge and skills, students have the opportunity to enhance their critical thinking, communication skills and reflective practice. Graduates will be career ready for the business world of today and have the interpersonal skills to adapt to the demands of a future economy.
The Bachelor of Corporate Finance is an AQF Level 7 programs with a standard full-time duration of 3 years.
Conditions
Condition of Enrolment
Interruption of program: Students must apply for permission from the Faculty before taking a Leave of Absence. Any extension of the leave without approval will result in the loss of place in the program but an application may be made to be re-admitted to the program subject to the admission procedures in place at the time.
Academic Program Rules for Bachelor of Corporate Finance
There shall be a Bachelor of Corporate Finance.
Qualification Requirements
To qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Corporate Finance, the student must complete satisfactorily a program of study not less than 72 units, comprising:
- Core courses to the value of 27 units
- A major in Corporate Finance to the value of 27 units
- Elective courses to the value of 18 units which may include at least one minor as listed below or any other undergraduate courses offered by the University that are available to the student.
Students may choose to undertake at least one Minor to the value of 12 units from the following:
- Accounting
- Business Management
- Creativity & Critical Thinking
- Economics
- Entrepreneurship
- Financial Services
- International Business
- Management Consulting
- Marketing
- Marketing in South Australia
- Organisational Cybersecurity
- Project Management
- Public Administration
- Small and Family Business Management
Core Courses
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Core
To satisfy the requirements for Core students must complete courses to the value of 27 units.
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ACCTING 1002 Introductory Accounting 3 COMMGMT 1001 Managing Organisations and People 3 COMMLAW 1004 Commercial Law I 3 ECON 1008 Data Analytics I 3 ECON 1012 Principles of Economics I 3 ENTREP 1011 Entrepreneurship Foundations and Mindset 3 MARKETNG 1001 Introduction to Marketing 3 PROF 1000 Professional Practices 3 and
Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ENTREP 3900 eChallenge 3 PROF 3500 Undergraduate Professions Internship 3 PROF 3500OL Undergraduate Professions Internship 3 PROF 3501 Undergraduate Professions Internship OS 3 PROF 3510 Industry Project 3
Major
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Corporate Finance
To satisfy the requirements for Corporate Finance students must complete courses to the value of 27 units.
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value CORPFIN 1002 Business Finance 3 CORPFIN 2501 Financial Institutions Management 3 CORPFIN 2502 Business Valuation 3 CORPFIN 2503 Business Data Analytics 3 CORPFIN 3500 Corporate Finance Theory 3 CORPFIN 3501 Portfolio Theory & Management 3 CORPFIN 3502 Options, Futures & Risk Management 3 CORPFIN 3503 Corporate Investment & Strategy 3 CORPFIN 3504 Treasury and Financial Risk Management 3
Minor
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Accounting
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ACCTING 2500 Cost and Management Accounting 3 ACCTING 2501 Financial Accounting 3 ACCTING 2502 Accounting Method 3 ACCTING 2503 Accounting Information Systems 3 -
Business Management
To satisfy the requirements for Business Management students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value COMMGMT 2500 Organisational Behaviour 3 COMMGMT 2511 Business Operations Management 3 COMMGMT 3501 Strategic Management 3 COMMGMT 3502 Human Resource Management 3 -
Creativity & Critical Thinking
To satisfy the requirements for Creativity & Critical Thinking students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ARTS 1007 The Enquiring Mind 3 PHIL 1101 Argument and Critical Thinking 3 and
9 units from the following with a minimum of 3 units at level III
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ARTS 2002 Complex Problem Solving 3 ARTS 2301 Social Enterprise Internship II 3 ARTS 3301 Social Enterprise Internship III 3 CRARTS 2002 Creativity and the Adelaide Festival 3 CRWR 2013 The Writer's Voice: Intersections in Writing 3 CRWR 3001 Boundary Riders: Creative Critical Writing 3 MUSGEN 2003 Music, Media & Contemporary Society II 3 MUSGEN 3002 Music and Ideas 3 PHIL 2030 Cognitive Science: Minds, Brains & Computers 3 PHIL 2051 Art, Perception and Creativity 3 PHIL 3014 Epistemology: Knowledge, Truth and Justification 3 -
Economics
To satisfy the requirements for Economics students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ECON 1005 Introduction to Mathematical Economics I 3 ECON 1010 Mathematical Economics I 3 and
Courses to the value of 6 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ECON 2507 Intermediate Macroeconomics II 3 ECON 2514 Managerial Economics II 3 ECON 2515 Intermediate Applied Econometrics II 3 and
Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ECON 3500 Resource and Environmental Economics III 3 ECON 3501 Development Economics III 3 ECON 3503 Game Theory III 3 ECON 3506 International Trade III 3 ECON 3508 Public Economics III 3 ECON 3510 International Finance III 3 ECON 3511 Money, Banking and Financial Markets III 3 ECON 3516 Industrial Organisation III 3 ECON 3519 Mathematical Economics III 3 ECON 3530 Applied Econometrics III 3 -
Entrepreneurship
To satisfy the requirements for Entrepreneurship students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
Courses to the value of 12 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ENTREP 1006 Opportunity Assessment 3 ENTREP 1020 Design Thinking: Problems to Practice 3 ENTREP 2010 Digital Technology Entrepreneurship 3 ENTREP 2014 Exploring Innovation 3 ENTREP 3015 Entrepreneurial Leadership 3 ENTREP 3020 Corporate Entrepreneurship in Organisations 3 ENTREP 3900 eChallenge 3 ENTREP 3901 Tech eChallenge 3 -
Financial Services
To satisfy the requirements for Financial Services students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
Courses to the value of 12 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value CORPFIN 3003 Tax Superannuation and Estate Planning 3 CORPFIN 3004 Global Wealth Management 3 CORPFIN 3005 Fintech and Disruption in Financial Services 3 CORPFIN 3006 Blockchain Crypto and Big Data 3 -
International Business
To satisfy the requirements for International Business students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value COMMGMT 3508 Systems Thinking for a Complex World 3 COMMLAW 2502 Legal Aspects of International Business 3 INTBUS 1000 International Business Environment 3 INTBUS 2001 International Business Operations 3 -
Management Consulting
To satisfy the requirements for Management Consulting students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value COMMGMT 2500 Organisational Behaviour 3 COMMGMT 3005 Small and Family Business Perspectives 3 COMMGMT 3501 Strategic Management 3 MARKETNG 3006 Delivering Customer Insights 3 -
Marketing
To satisfy the requirements for Marketing students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value MARKETNG 1001 Introduction to Marketing 3 MARKETNG 2010 Marketing Strategy 3 MARKETNG 2501 Consumer Behaviour 3 MARKETNG 3004 Marketing Planning Project 3 -
Marketing in South Australia
To satisfy the requirements for Marketing in South Australia students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value COMMGMT 3005 Small and Family Business Perspectives 3 MARKETNG 1001 Introduction to Marketing 3 MARKETNG 3003 Business to Business Marketing 3 MARKETNG 3501 Marketing to the World 3 -
Organisational Cybersecurity
To satisfy the requirements for Organisational Cybersecurity students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value COMMGMT 2507 Information Risks, Threats & Controls 3 COMMGMT 2508 Business Data & Cyber Security 3 COMMGMT 2509 Policies & Procedures in Organisational Cyber Security 3 COMMGMT 2512 Business Information Systems and Management 3 -
Project Management
To satisfy the requirements for Project Management students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
All of the following courses must be completed:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value PROJMGNT 1001 Foundations of Project Management 3 and
Courses to the value of 9 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value PROJMGNT 1002 Project Risk Management 3 PROJMGNT 2002 Systems Thinking and Projects 3 PROJMGNT 2003 Leadership in Stakeholder Management 3 PROJMGNT 3003 Project Procurement & Resourcing 3 PROJMGNT 3004 Project Management Strategy & Competency 3 -
Public Administration
To satisfy the requirements for Public Administration students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
Courses to the value of 6 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ACCTING 1002 Introductory Accounting 3 ACCTING 3013 Public Sector Accountability 3 and
Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ECON 1002 Australia in the Global Economy I 3 ECON 1012 Principles of Economics I 3 and
Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ABORIG 1001 Indigenous People, Country & Protocols 3 COMMGMT 2500 Organisational Behaviour 3 COMMGMT 3508 Systems Thinking for a Complex World 3 PROJMGNT 1001 Foundations of Project Management 3 PROJMGNT 2003 Leadership in Stakeholder Management 3 -
Small & Family Business Management
To satisfy the requirements for Small & Family Business Management students must complete courses to the value of 12 units.
Courses to the value of 12 units from the following:
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value COMMGMT 3005 Small and Family Business Perspectives 3 COMMGMT 3509 Professionalising Small & Family Business 3 INTBUS 3002 Internationalisation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises 3 MARKETNG 3003 Business to Business Marketing 3
Electives
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Electives
To satisfy the requirements for Electives, students must complete courses to the value of 18 units. Electives may comprise any of the courses available as a Minor, or any other undergraduate courses offered by the University that are available to the student. You may also wish to consider one of the following tours as an elective option.
Subject/Catalogue Course Title Unit Value ACCTFIN 3501 International Study Tour - Accounting & Finance 3 ACCTFIN 3502 Domestic Study Tour - Accounting & Finance 3 ACCTFIN 3503 European Study Tour 3 ACCTFIN 3504 New York Study Tour 3 ENTREP 3900 eChallenge 3 ENTREP 3901 Tech eChallenge 3 PROJMGNT 3050 Project Management Study Tour UG 3