Department of Finance
Finance professionals are concerned with the management of assets to create wealth for investors or companies. The finance discipline examines how individuals, businesses and institutions raise funds to implement investment strategies and how they allocate these funds to a variety of investment opportunities.
Announcement
Casual Tutor Applications - Semester 2, 2018
Applications for semester 2, 2018 Casual Tutor and Tutor Assistant positions are now open and close it on Sunday 27th May 2018. Apply at www.online.fbe.unimelb.edu.au/ctrs
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Meet our People
Search our database of Academic Staff with expertise in Finance, research students, honorary and visiting academics.
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Our Research Centres
Our academics are active collaborators in multi-partner centres which bring together researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines and industries.
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Events
The Department of Finance hosts a variety of events throughout the year providing a platform for students, academics, industry professionals and accounting practitioners to engage in contemporary finance issues.
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What we teach
Find out more about our BCom and Post Graduate programs, subjects, keystones and honours options.
Finance News
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A Matter of Trust: The Practice of Ethics in Finance
A new book co-authored by Professor Paul Kofman, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics, explores how the finance sector can stand as a true profession.
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Changing lives one sip at a time: tales of a coffee entrepreneur
German-native Tina Wendel always wanted to be an entrepreneur. After completing her Masters of Finance at the University of Melbourne in 2007, the Management Consultant and part-time university lecturer decided to take the plunge and start an ethical coffee company with one of Melbourne’s most eminent coffee roasters.
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Greater skills diversity on boards might actually be worse for business
Having directors with diverse skills doesn’t necessarily lead to better firm performance. Using US data, our research found that increasing the amount of skills on a board from 10 to 13 reduces firm performance by about 2.4%. The boards with more skills performed worse than boards with less.
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Australia's Housing: Hard Crash or Soft Landing?
After 25 years recession free - could our complacency about Australia’s euphoric house market be coming to an end?
Accreditation
A variety of professional accreditations, memberships and subject exemptions are available for finance students, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
