Students spend four to six hours a week over four weeks on the class as they wish. There are live online classes every Wednesday and Thursday from 7 to 9pm AEST (Melbourne/Sydney time) with 12 months' access to all class recordings and lecture notes.
The course will provide practical training and opportunity to explore the key principles of Islamic finance, which AusCIF says is now a A$1.7 trillion-dollar global industry. The centre says those who want to understand more about the rules concerning wealth-related issues in Islam, Islamic banking and finance, are likely to benefit, including, but not limited to practitioners, professionals, lawyers, analysts, regulators, students and imams.
Almir Colan, Director of AusCif and an adviser to several institutions that provide Islamic finance and investment, will deliver the course. He was a consultant lecturer and board member for the Master of Islamic Banking and Finance Course at La Trobe University and a member of the Advisory Reference Group for the Bachelor of Accounting/Associate Degree of Accounting at NMIT. Most recently, he advised the Securities & Investments Institute Asia-Pacific in the area of sukuk and Islamic capital markets. Colan holds an MBA from Deakin University and a Master of Islamic banking and finance degree from La Trobe University.
“The AusCIF course is spectacular; it provides the student with a concise yet holistic understanding of the vastly growing Islamic finance industry and its innovative shari'ah compliant products... what I mostly found intriguing was its practical approach on dealing with everyday transactions," said Sheikh Moustapha Sarakibi in a testimonial online.
The course is A$197, with an early bird discount of 25% if the registration is made with the using promotion code AUSCIF25 by 1 December 2014. More about a students' discount is available here.
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