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Unit description
Covers concepts, principles and tools of business finance and business financial management. It develops students’ knowledge and skills in analysing, evaluating and making business decisions related to capital investment appraisal, financing alternatives, capital structure and dividend policies. The unit also provides an overview of the business’s financial environment, risk and return trade-offs and time value of money applications.
Unit content
Module 1: Finance for Business – An Introduction
Module 2: The Time Value of Money
Module 3: Capital Investment Decisions I
Module 4: Capital Investment Decisions II
Module 5: Financing and Capital Structure Policy
Module 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.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | explain how businesses make financial decisions and the nature of the broader financial environment in which they operate |
| 2 | apply the techniques of financial mathematics to aid in financial management decision-making |
| 3 | analyse and appraise capital investments |
| 4 | compare and evaluate alternative financing sources, capital structures and dividend policies. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- explain how businesses make financial decisions and the nature of the broader financial environment in which they operate
- apply the techniques of financial mathematics to aid in financial management decision-making
- analyse and appraise capital investments
- compare and evaluate alternative financing sources, capital structures and dividend policies.
Prescribed Learning Resources
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- Prescribed resources/equipment information is not currently available.
- Parrino, R, Au Yong, H H, Morkel-Kingsbury, N, James, J, Mazzola, P, Murray, J, Smales, L and Wei, X, 2020, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 4th edn, John Wiley & Son Inc., Milton, QLD. ISBN: 978-0-730-38249-2.
A non-programmable calculator with financial and statistical routines, which can also be used in the examination, is strongly recommended. The unit resources use/refer to Sharp Business/Financial Calculator EL738 or EL735S. At the very least, a non-programmable calculator with a power raising key and a square root key will be required.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
- Prescribed resources/equipment information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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