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CPA Financial Risk Management
Postgraduate | TAS-BFA606 | 2024
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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CPA Financial Risk Management
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, the students should be able to:
- Explain financial risk management strategies to address an organisation’s financial risk taking into account recent developments and apply those strategies
- Professional skills and oral presentation skills used to justify case studies’ financial risk management
- 1. Week 1 - Module 1, 2
- 1.1) Introduction to financial risk management; Management of liquidity, debt and equity
- 2. Week 2 - Module 2, 3
- 2.1) Management of liquidity, debt and equity
- 2.2) Financing and evaluating investments
- 3. Week 3 - Module 3, 4
- 3.1) Financing and evaluating investments
- 3.2) Derivatives
- 4. Week 4 - Module 4, 5
- 4.1) Derivatives
- 4.2) Interest rate risk management
- 5. Week 5 - Module 5, 6
- 5.1) Interest rate risk management; Foreign exchange and commodity price risk management
- 6. Week 6 - Module 7
- 6.1) Accounting for derivatives and hedge relationships
- 7. Week 7 - Module 7, 8
- 7.1) Accounting for derivatives and hedge relationships
- 7.2) Controlling risk
CPA Financial Risk Management is designed to provide you with the skills to assess and manage financial risks and apply appropriate strategies through the use of financial instruments. Financial risks include funding and liquidity risk, market risk from interest rates, exchange rates or commodity price movements, credit risk, and operational risk. This subject provides tuition support for your enrolment in the CPA Professional Level segment: Financial Risk Management. The subject also develops some professional skills such as reporting writing, oral presentation and communication skills
- CPA Exam (100%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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