Program Overview

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Finance and Financial Planning Double Major (BCom)

Overview

Empower yourself, individuals and organisations through expert financial knowledge, and gain a qualification that will allow you to give personal financial advice through this accredited course.

What can I do with a degree in Finance and Financial Planning

Life-changing impact

Research shows that Australians with a financial adviser have a higher overall life satisfaction than those without.

Earn a high salary

Financial Investment Advisors and Managers earn an average of $3120 per week before tax.

Enjoy strong job growth

Employment for Financial Investment Advisors and Managers in Australia is expected to grow strongly, with a projected increase of 14.8% in the next 10 years.

Finance and Financial Planning

Overview

Are you ready to make a positive impact on people’s lives? Financial planning involves understanding budgeting, investing and risk management to help people make informed financial decisions. As a financial planner or advisor, you'll be contributing to people’s financial wellbeing and helping them achieve their life goals as well as plan for their future.

In this double major, you'll learn about financial principles and markets, and become skilled in areas such as tax law, corporate finance, portfolio management, estate planning, ethics and compliance.

You’ll also delve into behavioural finance, learning about the psychology behind people’s financial decisions and behaviours. Through this holistic approach, you’ll learn to provide insightful financial advice tailored to meet each client’s individual goals.

In this industry-aligned course, you’ll have access to professional software, such as XPLAN and LSEG Workspace, and engage with finance experts through guest lectures. In your final year, you’ll apply your skills through a 120-hour internship with a licensed financial planner.

A career as a financial advisor is an excellent opportunity to use your natural flair for analysis and planning to help others. You could also explore career opportunities in fintech, with an increasing market for apps and AI tools that offer quality financial advice.

To practise as a financial advisor in Australia, you’ll need to sit ASIC’S financial advisor exam and complete one year of professional work and training. Curtin's accredited course is the only direct undergraduate pathway in Western Australia to qualify you to sit the financial advisor exam.

Parent degrees

You can study this double major under the following degrees:

• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Advanced Commerce (Honours)

What jobs can the Finance and Financial Planning course lead to?

Careers

• Budget analyst
• Corporate finance analyst
• Financial advisor/planner
• Financial counsellor/coach
• Financial manager

Industries

• Banking
• Brokerage
• Corporate business
• Equity markets
• Financial planning
• Government and non-profit

What you'll learn

• Refer to Course Learning Outcomes of the B-COMRCE

Why study Finance and Financial Planning at Curtin?

Professional recognition

One of the first programs in Australia to be accredited by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (FASEA) and is an approved degree allowing graduates to enter training to be a financial adviser.

Access to professional software

Experience financial planning industry and Wall Street at Curtin, with access to XPLAN, LSEG Workspace software, StockTrack simulations, and leading industry data platforms Capital IQ and DatAnalysis pro.

Engage with industry

Gain 120 hours of work experience to add to your CV, through a final-year internship in a financial planning practice.

Professional recognition and accreditation

This degree is approved by the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority. (Anyone seeking to enter the profession and give personal financial advice must hold an approved degree, undertake a professional year and pass the financial adviser exam.)

You may also be eligible for membership of the Financial Advice Association Australia, CFA Institute, Economic Society of Australia (WA branch) and the Women in Finance Network. Graduates may be eligible to apply as an Affiliate Member of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Admission criteria

What you need in order to get into this course. There are different pathway options depending on your level of work and education experience.

Fees and scholarships

Please view the Bachelor of Commerce degree for indicative fees.

How to apply

Please review information on how to apply for the campus of your choice

Course essentials

• ATAR: Guaranteed ATAR 70
• Qualification: Finance and Financial Planning Double Major (BCom)
• Credit: 450

Course outline

• Overview
• Admission criteria
• Fees and scholarships
• How to apply

Testimonials

Studying Finance and Financial Planning at Curtin has been an enriching experience that perfectly balances the study of investing, financial instruments, and markets with a human-centric approach. The course has allowed me to deepen my skills in numerical analysis while also empathising with the human story behind every financial decision.

Nena-Rae Sutton

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Specialisations

• Actuarial Financial Mathematics Specialisation
• Advertising Design Specialisation
• Animation and Game Design Specialisation
• Anthropology and Sociology Specialisation
• Asian Studies Specialisation
• Chinese Language Specialisation
• Construction Management Specialisation
• Corporate Screen Production Specialisation
• Creative Writing Specialisation
• Design Thinking and Visual Communication Specialisation
• Designing Fashion Specialisation
• Digital and Social Media Specialisation
• Environmental Planning Specialisation
• Fashion Design Specialisation
• Fine Art Specialisation
• Geography Specialisation
• Graphic Design Specialisation
• Graphics Specialisation
• History Specialisation
• Illustration Specialisation
• Interior Architecture – Applied Interior Design Specialisation
• Interior Architecture Specialisation
• International Development Specialisation
• Journalism Specialisation
• Landscape and Natural Resource Management Specialisation
• Photography Specialisation
• Principles of Planning Specialisation
• Professional Writing Specialisation
• Screen Production Specialisation
• Social Inclusion and Equity Specialisation
• Social Justice Specialisation
• Surveying and Spatial Sciences Specialisation
• Theatre Arts Specialisation
• Urban Design and Planning Specialisation
• Web Media Specialisation
• Web Presence Specialisation

Bachelor of Commerce Specialisations

• Actuarial Financial Mathematics Specialisation
• Advertising Design Specialisation
• Animation and Game Design Specialisation
• Anthropology and Sociology Specialisation
• Asian Studies Specialisation
• Chinese Language Specialisation
• Construction Management Specialisation
• Corporate Screen Production Specialisation
• Creative Writing Specialisation
• Design Thinking and Visual Communication Specialisation
• Designing Fashion Specialisation
• Digital and Social Media Specialisation
• Environmental Planning Specialisation
• Fashion Design Specialisation
• Fine Art Specialisation
• Geography Specialisation
• Graphic Design Specialisation
• Graphics Specialisation
• History Specialisation
• Illustration Specialisation
• Interior Architecture – Applied Interior Design Specialisation
• Interior Architecture Specialisation
• International Development Specialisation
• Journalism Specialisation
• Landscape and Natural Resource Management Specialisation
• Photography Specialisation
• Principles of Planning Specialisation
• Professional Writing Specialisation
• Screen Production Specialisation
• Social Inclusion and Equity Specialisation
• Social Justice Specialisation
• Surveying and Spatial Sciences Specialisation
• Theatre Arts Specialisation
• Urban Design and Planning Specialisation
• Web Media Specialisation
• Web Presence Specialisation

Bachelor of Innovation Specialisations

• Advertising Design Specialisation
• Animation and Game Design Specialisation
• Asian Studies Specialisation
• Biological Diversity Minor
• Climate Change Science Minor
• Construction Management Specialisation
• Corporate Screen Production Specialisation
• Creative Writing Specialisation
• Design Thinking and Visual Communication Specialisation
• Designing Fashion Specialisation
• Digital and Social Media Specialisation
• Environmental Management Minor
• Environmental Planning Specialisation
• Fashion Design Specialisation
• Fine Art Specialisation
• Food Science Minor
• Forensic Studies Minor
• Geophysics Minor
• Geospatial Technology Minor
• Go Global – Internship Specialisation 1
• Go Practice – Internship Specialisation 1
• Graphic Design Specialisation
• Graphics Specialisation
• Illustration Specialisation
• Indigenous Australian Cultural Studies Specialisation
• Interior Architecture – Applied Interior Design Specialisation
• Interior Architecture Specialisation
• International Development Specialisation
• Landscape Restoration Minor
• Landscape and Natural Resource Management Specialisation
• Mapping and Land Planning Minor
• Metallurgy Minor
• Mining Minor
• Optimisation Minor
• Photography Specialisation
• Principles of Planning Specialisation
• Screen Production Specialisation
• Social Inclusion and Equity Specialisation
• Social Justice Specialisation
• Strategic Studies Specialisation
• Theatre Arts Specialisation
• Urban Design and Planning Specialisation
• Web Media Specialisation
• Web Presence Specialisation