Bachelor of Commerce (Financial Planning)

Overview

Spark your interest for financial planning

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.