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Corporate Finance
Postgraduate | ACU-BAFN602 | 2020
Course information for 2020 intake
View information for 2021 course intakeA core MBA subject that sets out key financial management skills and knowledge. Prepare for business decision making, drawing on topics including ethics and common good, risk and return, and financing through debt and equity capital.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
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Corporate Finance
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Understand the goals, approaches, and ethical issues related to financial management practices, and role of financing in generating common good
- Analyse the issues involved in raising debt and equity capital for the firm in terms of their impact on the firm’s financial structure and risk
- Apply risk and return relationships to the valuation of financial assets
- Apply capital budgeting techniques to assess the financial benefits and costs of competing investment projects
- Construct the optimal capital structure of firms collaboratively
- Goals and functions of financial management
- Ethics, and common good in financial management
- Ethics and financial management
- Financial planning and working capital management
- Risk and return relationships and the valuation of financial assets
- Capital budgeting
- Cost of capital, leverage and capital structure
- Financing through debt and equity capital
- Dividend policy
This subject provides students with necessary knowledge and skills needed to key business decisions relative to financing, investment and dividend are made. Students will need to understand the concepts of risk and return, raising funds through issuing shares and bonds, investment evaluation, dividend policy, cost of capital, capital structure, leverage, and working capital management. Students will also need to compare and contrast the role of finance managers in financing and investment decisions faced by all firms. You will further develop skills in analysing and developing strategies for making business decisions to generate sustainable shareholder value.
Assessments are used primarily to foster learning. ACU adopts a constructivist approach to learning that seeks alignment between the fundamental purpose of each subject, the learning outcomes, teaching and learning strategy, assessment and the learning environment. In order to pass this subject, you are required to achieve an overall score of at least 50%. Using constructive alignment, the assessment tasks are designed for you to demonstrate your achievement of each learning outcome.
- Individual Report (30%)
- Report 2 (30%)
- Individual Task (40%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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