Course Title: Apply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5324

Course Title: Apply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry

Portfolio: BUS

Nominal Hours: 30.0

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
EMPL5973C	Bundoora Campus	TAFE	650T Vocational Business Education	Distance / Correspondence or Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace
EMPL5892C	City Campus	TAFE	650T Vocational Business Education	Distance / Correspondence or Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace

Course Contact: Doug Gourlay

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925-5944

Course Contact Email: doug.gourlay@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to identify industry professional approaches to procedures, guidelines, policies and standards, including ethical requirements and model and meet expectations of these in all aspects of work.

This unit has application to a variety of financial services sectors and is applicable to individuals working within enterprises and job roles subject to licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements so the varying Commonwealth, State or Territory requirements should be confirmed with the relevant body.
 

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	FNSINC401A Apply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry
Elements:	1. Identify the scope, sectors and responsibilities of the industry
	2. Identify and apply financial services industry guidelines, procedures and legislation
	3. Identify sustainability issues for the financial services industry
	4. Manage information
	5. Participate in and facilitate work team activities
	6. Plan work to be completed taking into consideration time, resources and other constraints
	7. Develop and maintain personal competency

Learning Outcomes

Overview of Assessment

Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of the requirements in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks, for example: 

• direct questioning combined with review of portfolios of evidence
• role plays
• verbal or written questioning on underpinning knowledge and skills
• observation of processes and procedures
• oral or written questioning to assess knowledge of software applications

Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.