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Study business & management online with Macquarie University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Macquarie&#39;s Graduate Certificate of Finance (OUA) is a comprehensive Gateway course in graduate finance. This award offers a pathway for non-finance-related degree holders to the Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and the Master of Applied Finance, providing that work experience admission requirements of the higher degree are met. It will also appeal to those students who want postgraduate level learning in finance as a stand-alone award.

Get to know the finance industry and your career options. You’ll study finance theories, concepts and models. Develop fundamental financial skills and start tackling finance problems. Transition to a career in finance or continue with further study.

Graduate Certificate of Finance

Digital marketing is unquestionably an integral activity for any brand that wishes to engage with prospects, drive traffic and generate quality leads. Those with in-demand digital marketing skills in SEO, PPC, display advertising, social media, content marketing and email marketing, are leading the marketing transformation in the digital era.The Graduate Certificate of Digital Marketing will expose you to key digital marketing concepts, principles, strategies and best practices, so you’re skilled to help your organisation optimise its digital marketing presence. You’ll emerge with advanced skills to generate added value for customers across different touchpoints in their journey, as well as generate increased growth for businesses. You’ll learn to exploit the benefits digital technologies and channels offer, and you’ll learn how to generate consumer insights from various digital channels to maximise and optimise return on marketing investment.Key Features<ul><li>Hone your skills in marketing optimisation - Apply the latest technologies in AI, machine learning, marketing automation, experimentation and analytics.</li><li>Explore customer-centric marketing strategies - Learn how to apply consumer insights to enhance customer experience and optimise marketing return on investment.</li><li>Study 100 per cent online for maximum flexibility - Gain a professional qualification while studying online, and fit your studies around your work and life commitments.</li><li>Get the skills you need right now or ladder up to a master degree - Gain credit towards Australia’s number one ranked Master of Marketing and move into a future-proof fast-growing field.</li></ul>

Explore key digital marketing concepts, strategies, and best practices. You’ll build skills in SEO, PPC, display advertising, social media, and eDM. Reach customers across different touchpoints in their journey. Generate increased growth for businesses.

Graduate Certificate of Digital Marketing

Effective leadership and change management skills are essential for professional success in today’s dynamic and competitive business environment. The most effective leaders are those who are trustworthy, decisive, adaptable and positive. They use positivity and perspective to establish and maintain high performance by engaging, inspiring, influencing, empowering and coaching others.The Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Change is designed for busy professionals seeking the skills to motivate and lead people through changing environments. The themes and units you’ll study – which are unique to this course – will help you to develop a deep understanding of how to lead change in uncertain, complex and demanding situations.Key Features<ul><li>Undertake the only graduate certificate of its kind - Study this one-of-kind course and build your leadership skills alongside your change management capabilities.</li><li>Upskill to boost your career or reskill and transition to another - Accelerate your current career or transition to another – leadership and change management skills are in demand in all fields.</li><li>Study 100 per cent online for maximum flexibility - Gain a professional qualification while studying online, and fit your studies around your work and lifestyle commitments.</li><li>Get the skills you right need now or ladder up to a master degree - Apply your learnings to your current role immediately, and gain credit towards one of Australia’s top ranked Masters of Management.</li></ul>

Build your confidence to lead change in complex business environments. You’ll work on contemporary leadership skills, change management, and persuasion. Be ready to tackle contemporary workplace issues with skills employers value.

Graduate Certificate of Leadership and Change

The world’s biggest companies are increasingly using business analytics to help them measure their past performance, improve efficiency, increase profits and innovate. Those with skills in data-driven decision-making and problem solving – who can visualise findings and tell stories with data – are in demand in all industries, both in Australia and across the globe.The flexible Graduate Certificate of Applied Business Analytics has a strong focus on practical and real-world applications of business analytics tools and techniques. You’ll develop your knowledge of computer programming, databases, applied statistics and machine learning techniques applied to big data. You’ll apply data modelling and forecasting methods for analysing data from various sources. And you’ll become adept at recognising the importance of ethical reasoning in the solution of analytics-related problems.Key Features<ul><li>Examine the three key categories of contemporary analytics - Learn how to apply descriptive, predictive and prescriptive techniques to solve business problems.</li><li> Study 100 per cent online for maximum flexibility - Gain a professional qualification while studying online, and fit your studies around your work and life commitments.</li><li> Get the skills you right need now or ladder up to a master degree - Gain credit towards Australia’s longest-running Master of Business Analytics, which is ranked in the top 100 in the world.</li><li> Build practical capabilities alongside theoretical knowledge - Focus on real-world applications of business analytics tools and techniques.</li></ul>

Develop programming, database, and statistics skills. You’ll explore machine learning techniques applied to big data. Use data to problem solve and make decisions. Visualise and tell stories. Get the right skills for an evolving IT industry.

Graduate Certificate of Applied Business Analytics

The Graduate Certificate of Applied Statistics provides you with knowledge and skills to work as a statistician, analyst or data scientist in a range of industries. This degree is an entry pathway to the Master of Applied Statistics.

Learn how to collect quality data and interpret it. You’ll study statistical concepts and data analysis techniques. Become the critical thinker and problem solver that business, government and research bodies need. Work towards becoming a statistician.

Graduate Certificate of Applied Statistics

Finance plays a key role in the growth and development of societies and economies. The marriage of finance and technological innovation – known as FinTech – considerably strengthens this role. Currently a $4 billion industry, Australia has one of the world’s most exciting and dynamic fintech industries.The Graduate Certificate of Digital Finance has been co-designed with industry partners to ensure finance executives are able to anticipate and benefit from fintech innovations including blockchain and cybersecurity. It will equip you with skills and knowledge to solve financial problems using digital finance tools and techniques. You’ll apply skills and knowledge in digital finance to financial decision-making, risk management, problem-solving and opportunity identification. These capabilities will help to future-proof your employability in growing areas of demand in a digital economy.Key Features<ul><li>Develop skills in a growing area of demand - Gain the knowledge and skills to solve business financial problems using emerging technology.</li><li>Undertake a certificate taught by fintech experts - Learn from qualified and experienced lecturers who have solid industry experience and base their teaching on the latest research.</li><li>Analyse contemporary digital finance challenges - Learn how to apply your finance capabilities and professional judgement to digital finance challenges and ethical issues.</li><li>Position yourself for advanced postgraduate study - Undertake this course as a pathway to the Master of Business Administration or the Master of Applied Finance.</li></ul>

A cutting-edge finance course co-designed with industry partners. Unpack the latest in finance and technological innovation. Get ready to solve financial problems using digital finance tools and techniques. Break into the fintech industry.

Graduate Certificate of Digital Finance

Introduction to Psychological Design and Statistics

Statistical Concepts for Science

Ethics, Business and Work

This subject provides a broad introduction to statistical concepts and data analysis techniques. You will develop an understanding of statistical practice through a study of those techniques most commonly used in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. Topics covered in this subject include data collection methods, data quality, data summarisation, and statistical models such as the normal distribution, followed by sampling distributions and statistical inferences about means and proportions. Also studied are methods of analysis relating to comparisons, counted data and relationships, including regression and correlation. Statistical computer packages are used for handling and analysing data. However, no prior computing knowledge is assumed. This subject introduces vital skills for tertiary learning and explores their relationship to success in future careers.

Gain vital statistics skills for your science degree and beyond. You’ll learn how to collect, organise, and summarise data. Explore statistical models. Use statistical software. Get set for science with a rigorous framework for analysing data.

This unit provides students with an introduction to research design and statistical analysis. In this unit, students will learn about common research methods used in psychology and related disciplines, critically analyse these methods, and be able to conduct their own analyses. Both experimental and non-experimental research methods are covered, as well as a variety of statistical tests, including t-tests, correlation, and chi square analyses.Students will learn data management techniques and appropriate methods to summarise data, including both numeric and graphical summaries. Students will also gain hands-on experience using the statistical software Stata.

Learn how to design research and use statistics in psychology. You’ll get to know common statistical techniques and software. Conduct tests, summarise data, and communicate your findings. Think about the role of research in psychological science.

This subject introduces students to psychological perspectives of the world of work, including both individual and organisational aspects. We cover such topics such as personnel selection, job attitudes, stress, personality, and human factors at work. Students discover some of the ways organisational psychologists have used the science of psychology to learn more about the human condition and to assist in the effective management of businesses. This unit provides a valuable background for the application of scientific principles and findings to workplace policies and practices that involve people. Through tutorial exercises and discussions, the unit ensures that students gain an appreciation of job analysis; recruitment and selection techniques; occupational stress management; and other psychological issues in the workplace.

Round off your psychology degree with an exploration of human behaviour within organisations. Topics include stress, personality, and teams. Discover how psychology can help with job analysis, recruitment, and psychological issues in the workplace.

Organisational Psychology

This subject was previously known as PHI230, PHIX201 Business and Professional Ethics. Please note: This subject is available in Macquarie Session 3, which is an intensive semester that spans only 5 intensive teaching weeks, plus a mid-semester recess and an assessment period. Students are advised to enrol in only one or two subjects in Session 3. Students who would prefer to take the unit over 13 teaching weeks should enrol in the Session 1 offering. This unit investigates some of main ethical issues that arise in professional life and from the activities of businesses and corporations. The unit explores the nature and value of work as well as its role in personal identity and social organisation. We also consider the obligations and responsibilities that come with professional work and the management of businesses. We examine the nature of corporations and their responsibilities to individual workers and consumers, stakeholders, groups such as women and minorities, and the environment.

Break down the ethical considerations that can stem from business activities. Firm up your view on a business' social responsibilities. Unpack codes of conduct and whistleblowing. Question the ability of corporations to influence government policies.

We engage in economic activities on a daily basis. We work to earn money, buy groceries, pay rent or mortgages, save for a holiday. In often invisible ways, these everyday activities of production and consumption are underpinned by social structures, cultures and ideologies. You will learn about the workings of the economy, labour markets and finance, and how economic activity is embedded in social relationships. You will be able to understand and address important issues of our time, such as the increasing gap between the rich and the poor, and unequal access to power and resources based on intersecting questions of gender, race and class.

Economic Life, Inequality and Society

In this intermediate statistics unit, you will build upon first-year to continue your journey in both the design and statistical components of experimental and non-experimental research common to psychological science. The importance of interpretation based on both the design and statistical analysis components is emphasised in this unit, as well as the utility of research to achieve positive impact for real-world problems and make informed decisions grounded in scientific evidence. You will learn a range of statistical analyses such as analysis of variance, linear regression, and non-parametric analyses. You will apply design and statistics principles to both academic and non-academic research contexts, including the communication of findings in multiple formats to a variety of audiences. You will continue to develop your practical data analysis skills using Stata statistical software.

In this intermediate course, you’ll cover statistics used for experiments in psychological research. Discover the importance of interpretation and the power of sample size. Learn statistic methods including correlation, regression and more.

Design and Statistics II

This subject examines the forces, which have shaped the economic, political and social transformation of East Asia, which is of critical importance to Australia&#39;s economic prosperity and security. The unit focuses on the growth of East Asia’s economies, democratic transitions, deepening integration of the region in the world economy, and the geopolitical dynamics of the region in the past to the present.

Australia and the Asia-Pacific Century

The subject provides an advanced introduction to the study of international political economy, and to develop students’ research, analytical and problem-solving skills. The subject examines the key questions, concepts, findings and controversies in the study of economic globalisation and considers the role of the state and non-state actors in shaping the regional and global integration of political economies.

Global Political Economy

This unit equips students with financial analysis skills to support advanced study in corporate finance and investment analysis. Emphasis is placed on being able to interpret financial statements in the context of a company&#39;s operational performance and strategy, to assess historical financial performance and to prepare a spreadsheet based financial model capable of forecasting integrated financial statements for a company. After this unit, students should understand the language of financial statements, and be able to use an Annual Report to develop an understanding of a company&#39;s operational performance and strategy, to assess historical performance and prospects. Specific topics include the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement and financial statement analysis using Dupont methodology. Financial modelling applications will also be developed, so students will be able to prepare forecasts for the three financial statements, as well as being able to integrate the three statements.

Financial Statement Analysis and Modelling

This unit provides the important building blocks in microeconomic and quantitative analysis required for advanced study in applied finance. Microeconomic analysis develops tools in demand and supply and critically applies these to the consumer and the firm. It concludes with an analysis of market structure. The second part of the unit develops quantitative skills that are used in finance, including descriptive statistics, probability, statistical inference, correlation and regression analysis. Spreadsheets are extensively used in statistical modelling.

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