FINC19020 - Financial Plan Construction

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This capstone unit applies prior knowledge to produce a statement of advice for a real world case study. You will conduct an initial client interview, research and develop a wealth strategy and learn to present a financial plan to a client. You also gain insights into management of client relationships.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisites - FINC11001 and FINC19011 and LAWS19033

Co-requisites:- FINC19012 and FINC19016 and FINC13001

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2024

Term 2 - 2024 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Online

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Practical Assessment 30%
2. Practical Assessment 40%
3. Practical Assessment 30%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 83.33% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 20% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Students want one word document with the assessment instructions
Recommendation
The unit coordinator will review the assessment instruction document.
Action Taken
From T2 2025, the assessment instructions will be combined into one document.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Students appreciated the knowledge and experience shared by the guest lecturers
Recommendation
Will continue to incorporate guest lecturers into the live weekly Zoom workshops
Action Taken
This practice continues with this unit.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Students preferred the unit coordinator generated case study fact find as it is more realistic than the AMP University Challenge fact find information.
Recommendation
The unit coordinators will review whether the AMP University Challenge case study is appropriate going forwards
Action Taken
AMP University Challenge case study has been replaced by more realistic client case study with real financial products, rather than fictitious financial products.
Source: Feedback given by the Student in the form of MyExperience responses.
Feedback
On the 2 August and 26 August a student gave the following satisfaction scores with the unit, 7 and 8 respectively.
Recommendation
Continue to improve this unit requirements and feedback to meet student expectations
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Recommendations by Learning Design & innovation team, discussions with Discipline colleagues from the Economics, Finance, Property Disciplines
Feedback
Low content engagement, especially pre-recorded content video recordings because they are considered too long
Recommendation
"Chunking" video recordings by topic instead of one long pre-recorded content video
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Evaluations
Feedback
Usefulness of Assessment Feedback is not to student satisfaction
Recommendation
Train staff to provide more useful assessment feedback.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Research and identify client data in developing a statement of advice
  2. Apply professional and ethical principles pertaining to the financial planning process
  3. Employ communication skills to manage client relationships
  4. Apply financial planning software to model client scenarios.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Practical Assessment • • •
2 - Practical Assessment • • •
3 - Practical Assessment •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • • •
2 - Problem Solving • • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • •
5 - Team Work • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence •
8 - Ethical practice • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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1 - Practical Assessment • • • • • • •
2 - Practical Assessment • • • • • • •
3 - Practical Assessment • • • • • •