In a nutshell
Enter the dynamic world of corporate finance – it’s not just for accountants and bankers. In today’s fast-paced professional environment, knowledge of the finance sector is in high demand – and Kaplan Professional’s flexible online Graduate Certificate in Corporate Finance can set you on the path to career success.
With this qualification, you’ll gain advanced technical and specialist skills that’ll enable you to start or develop your corporate finance career. You’ll equip yourself with essential industry knowledge by studying three core subjects that cover financial markets and economic principles, financial analysis and valuation and business valuation. You’ll also begin developing specialist knowledge by taking one elective—choose from Fundamentals of Asset Valuation, Mergers and Acquisitions and Applied Corporate Finance.
This course opens up your career options and can lead to exciting global opportunities in the corporate finance industry.
What you’ll need
To be eligible to study this course, applicants must meet the following entry requirements:
- An Undergraduate Degree; OR
- A related Advanced Diploma or Diploma; OR
- An unrelated Advanced Diploma or Diploma plus 2 years' related industry experience; OR
- Academic and/or professional qualifications demonstrating the potential to undertake study at this level.
Subject summary
In this finance course, the subjects you may study include:
Core subjects
- FIN101 - Financial Markets and Economic Principles
- FIN103 - Financial Analysis and Valuation
- FIN205 - Business Valuation
Elective subjects (choose one elective subject)
- FIN202 - Fundamentals of Asset Valuation
- FIN330 - Mergers and Acquisitions
- FIN342 - Applied Corporate Finance
Why Kaplan Professional?

Kaplan Professional is a leading provider of education in financial services and real estate. Kaplan Professional’s internationally renowned programs, personalised study experiences, flexible learning options and range of industry partners, all make them highly respected and distinguished.
Kaplan Professional offers a range of professional qualifications and provides learning solutions to 45,000 people a year. Whether you want to undertake a Certificate, Diploma or Masters, Kaplan Professional has the right course to get you where you want to go!
Kaplan Professional aim to make your learning journey as seamless as possible and have put together a student advice team to assist and help you out if any challenges come up.
Student advice representatives will be on hand to answer questions about the system, login and password queries, explaining processes around assessments etc., and to offer advice about study pathways and subject selection.
There are also discussion forums where you can direct questions regarding your studies to subject matter experts.