Finance Major

[zool3]

I think has been asked before but wat are some good finance unit to take?
Which one are easy/bludge, hard,beneficial?

Here is the list :
AFC2000 Financial institutions and markets
AFC2240 Equities and investment analysis
AFC2340 Debt markets and fixed income securities
AFC3170 Management of financial intermediaries
AFC3230 Financial analysis and valuation
AFC3240 International finance
AFC3340 Options, financial futures and other derivatives
AFC3440 Pension and financial planning
AFC3540 Modelling in finance
AFX3355 Property investment
AFX3871 International study program in banking and finance

and the alternatives i can choose to take:
BTC3130 Stock exchange and derivatives law
BTC3200 Finance law
ECC1100 Principles of macroeconomics
ECC2300 Current issues in macroeconomic policy
ECC3660 Monetary economics
ETC2430 Actuarial statistics
ETC3440 Introductory econometrics
ETC3460 Financial econometrics

Thanks!

[sluu001]

Rule of thumb - any finance subject with the word derivatives in it will be the harder finance subjects - unless you reeeallly like probability and statistics.

[zool3]

ahhh okay, thanks for that tip..

[TrueTears]

Rule of thumb - any finance subject with the word derivatives in it will be the harder finance subjects - unless you reeeallly like probability and statistics.

AFC3340 - hardest finance subject there is at monash.

This sem, apparently for the first assignment 93% of the people got 0/5 and the rest got 1/5, ie, there was a 100% fail rate LOL

Looks like it got even harder since when I did it lol

[sam.utute]

Rule of thumb - any finance subject with the word derivatives in it will be the harder finance subjects - unless you reeeallly like probability and statistics.

AFC3340 - hardest finance subject there is at monash.

This sem, apparently for the first assignment 93% of the people got 0/5 and the rest got 1/5, ie, there was a 100% fail rate LOL

Looks like it got even harder since when I did it lol

Oh wow.... -.-
That is ridiculous....

AFC3140 is proving to be quite straightforward at least.

[tony3272]

Rule of thumb - any finance subject with the word derivatives in it will be the harder finance subjects - unless you reeeallly like probability and statistics.

AFC3340 - hardest finance subject there is at monash.

This sem, apparently for the first assignment 93% of the people got 0/5 and the rest got 1/5, ie, there was a 100% fail rate LOL

Looks like it got even harder since when I did it lol

LOL i was considering doing it at the end of next year. . . May put it off for a year or two >__<

[TrueTears]

lol definitely do the unit though, it's so worth it, by far the most useful and interesting unit in finance.

[zool3]

haha TT, i was planning to do that...is it possible to do all the required finance units to complete the major (other than AFC3340), and then do it as an elective?

[TrueTears]

yeah you can definitely complete a finance major without afc3340 and then do it as an elective, no problems there. But you'll see that if you do afc3340, it'll help with many other units (complements very well with afc3540 and Paul, the chief examiner, takes both these units, so there's alot of similarities)

[zool3]

ahhh okay, so would it be better to do it first then other finance major? Cus i was thinking of doing AFC2140 (obviously) and afc2000 first. Then work out the rest

[TrueTears]

oh yeah defs do them first, id say afc3340 helps most with afc3540, afc3140, afc2340 and afc3240

[zool3]

cool! Thanks TT