Unit description
Introduces key concepts, principles, tools, contemporary issues and context of finance and financial management in order to prepare students for participation in making investment, financing and dividend decisions. Topics covered include the time value of money, the risk and return trade-off, capital budgeting, financing alternatives, capital structure and distribution policy.
Unit content
Topic 1: Introduction to finance and financial analysis
Topic 2: Time value of money, bonds and interest rates
Topic 3: Risk and return
Topic 4: Capital budgeting
Topic 5: Capital structure and financing
Topic 6: Distribution policy
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Demonstrate an understanding of business financial decisions, their impacts on value, and the nature of the broader financial and regulatory environment in which these decisions are made. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 2 | Perform a financial analysis of a firm. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 3 | Apply the techniques of financial mathematics to analyse finance problems and opportunities. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 4 | Explain the risk-return trade-off and diversification. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 5 | Evaluate capital investments using appropriate capital budgeting techniques. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 6 | Compare and appraise alternative financing sources, capital structures and distribution policies. | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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