Graduate Certificate in Financial Planning

This course is not offered in 2021.

The Graduate Certificate in Financial Planning will help further your career opportunities in financial planning by providing you with the key skills in ethics and specialist areas of financial planning. The flexible course allows you to fit study around your busy work and personal life. You will have the opportunity to work on simulated financial planning scenarios, and extend your knowledge in self-managed superannuation, intergenerational or aged care advice. The practical and work-based nature of the content will provide you with a portfolio of work to demonstrate your professional capabilities.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. demonstrate specialised knowledge in a range of business disciplines;
2. utilise specialist cognitive and communication skills, tools and digital technologies to communicate appropriately and persuasively with a range of stakeholders;
3. apply well-developed creative thinking skills and critical judgement to diagnose and analyse complex business problems, and synthesise material from a range of sources to identify solutions;
4. critically evaluate and demonstrate specialist judgement in formulating responses to complex social, cultural and ethical issues in a range of organisational contexts;
5. demonstrate a preparedness to engage in continuous learning and reflection to develop new insights into professional practice; and
6. illustrate well-developed skills in working autonomously and with others to generate solutions, including the ability to collaborate in a range of contexts to achieve individual and common goals.