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309022 (v.1) Practical Financial Modelling 502


Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
 
Syllabus: Introduction to financial modelling, using real world models. The development process - understand, design, build, test, implement and maintain. Using Excel as a modelling tool. Design principles and the user interface. Workshop - design (benefit projection modelling). The analytical process (using workers compensation insurance as an example) Workshop - analysis (workers compensation insurance modelling). Completion - testing, security and maintenance. Introduction to modelling using VBA and advanced VBA techniques. Working with data in Excel. Stochastic asset/liability modelling. Workshop - stochastic (stochastic asset/liability modelling).
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 
Field of Education: 010199 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Funding Cluster: 04 - Mathematics, Statistics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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