Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Planning, Core Major in Commerce and Accounting

University of Canberra - Canberra Campus

Australia,Australian Capital Territory

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36 Months

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CAD 35,800/year

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CAD 0 FREE

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Australia, Australian Capital Territory

Type: University

Location Type: Semi-Urban

Founded: 1990

Total Students: 17,500 +

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11 Kirinari St, Bruce ACT 2617, Australia

Bachelor of Commerce in Financial Planning, Core Major in Commerce and Accounting

Program Overview

With a Bachelor of Commerce (Financial Planning) you’ll gain a solid grounding of critical concepts and issues in commerce while studying the specifics of the financial planning industry. The course is delivered using a practical focus and you’ll learn how to undertake a selection of real-world activities, including creating risk management strategies, preparing best-practice Statements of Advice, and helping individuals plan for retirement by developing essential strategies for wealth creation and protection.

You’ll engage in a range of authentic, Work Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunities to help improve your professional practice and will graduate work-ready, with the skills and ambition to progress your career or study plans to the next level.


Study a Bachelor of Commerce (Financial Planning) at UC and you will:

  • Evaluate the concepts and theories acquired in financial planning
  • Exercise critical thinking skills when dealing with ambiguous and incomplete information
  • Identify and obtain relevant information for decision making and providing advice to stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds
  • Utilise discipline-specific technologies to analyse complex problems in a variety of contexts
  • Communicate a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas to a variety of stakeholders, addressing a diverse range of business/commerce problems
  • Develop the capacity to exercise initiative and professional judgement in an ethically and socially responsible manner.

 

Work Integrated Learning

The Bachelor of Commerce (Financial Planning) sees academics and industry working together to develop a range of diverse WIL opportunities for students, including internships, work placements, industry projects, competitions, exhibitions, study tours, virtual real-world learning experiences and more.

Through the WIL experiences across the course, you’ll acquire the necessary professional skills consistent with industry expectations for your future career in the worlds of commerce and financial planning. Previous Financial Planning students have undertaken internships with organisations including National Australia Bank, Legal Aid ACT, International IDEA, eChoice and the US Embassy.

The course culminates in a capstone project, which aims to integrate what you’ve learned across your degree and prepare you for the transition to either successful future employment or further studies.


Core Major: Commerce and Accounting
The BGL Core Major is a cohesive and scaffolded stream of professional education units that will enable students to integrate theoretical learning with practice throughout their degrees through authentic, real-world learning experiences.

The new world of work requires agile, multi-skilled professionals with the transferable employability skills and critical and creative abilities to work across their industries and to craft diverse and new employment paths. This Professional Core stream will equip students to succeed in this fluid environment. Academics and industry will work together to facilitate a range of diverse opportunities for students - from internships and placements to industry projects and competitions, exhibitions, study tours, virtual real world learning experiences and more ¿ to ensure an iterative and fully integrated professional and academic education. Through this dedicated focus our students will be professional, career-ready graduates: collaborative, self-aware, critical thinkers with contemporary and theoretical knowledge and practical skills.

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