The Graduate Diploma of Business (Finance) has been designed for individuals of differing educational backgrounds who find that their careers have led them into financial advice and management and who wish to strengthen the foundations of their knowledge in these areas.  It is suitable both for graduates in business disciplines, who are seeking to acquire a further specialist qualification, and for graduates in other disciplines, who seek to gain specialist knowledge of finance, and more general training in business subjects.

The course provides a systematic coverage of modern finance theory including subjects such as portfolio selection and management; capital  budgeting in conditions of certainty and uncertainty; corporate financing decisions; and the operations of the capital market.  The institutions of the Australian capital market and modern empirical work on price determination on stock exchanges are examined.

An undergraduate degree or equivalent prior learning including at least five years appropriate professional experience.

The Graduate Diploma of Business (Finance) involves a total of 120 credit points which can be completed in 1 year of full time mode of study or 2 years part time mode.