Financial Planning Skills

About this subject

What you'll learn

• Topics covered

  • The role of the financial adviser
  • Meeting with clients
  • Introduction to documentation and compliance
  • Effective engagement
  • Advice documentation and fact finding
  • Communicating the Statement of Advice

• Description

  This course focuses on developing skills to engage with clients in a real-world context and is delivered by experienced industry professionals via online learning over twelve weeks. This course maps to a number of National Financial Adviser Curriculum core knowledge areas. In particular, we focus on client relationships and consumer behaviour, which includes coverage of the following: Communication in a professional context, providing information about services to clients (FSG, PDS), collecting information from clients and setting goals, understanding self and others, interpersonal communication skills, the importance of client cues and prompts such as body language, tone of voice, how to create and build trust, fiduciary duty, ethical and professional conduct, legislated 'client best interests' requirement, risk profiling vs investment behaviour, managing the ongoing relationship and conflict resolution.

• Assessments

  • Participation and journal reflections (10%)
  • Client engagement. Workplace based Assessment (60%)
  • Electronic client file audit (30%)

• Textbooks

  For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).

• About Griffith University

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Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• GRF-AFA-DEG-2023 - Bachelor of Applied Financial Advice

Additional requirements

• Equipment requirements - Audio/Visual equipment