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Corporate Finance
Undergraduate | CUR-BAN26 | 2019
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Develop the skills to ask the big financial questions. Gain insight into finance theories. Learn the tools and techniques that facilitate decision making. Understand economic concepts, and get familiar with the financial sector.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Corporate Finance
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- examine Theories of Corporate Finance and their Limitations
- apply financial management tools and techniques
- analyse information relating to sources and uses of capital from a CFO perspective
- evaluate financial policies of public corporations.
- Introduction - Capital Budgeting
- Risk and Return Cost of Capital
- Cost of Capital Valuations
- Debt Policy
- Capital Structure
- Dividend Policy
- Financial Analysis
- Corporate Governance
- IPO, SEO and RI
- Mergers and Acquisition
- Corporate Restructuring
This subject focuses on aspects of the corporate finance theories and tools and techniques to facilitate financial decision making. It aims to expose students to and familiarise them with corporate sector financial management by examining the main issues faced by financial managers of public companies. Topics covered are: Information asymmetry and signalling, agency theory, capital markets and sources of funds, capital budgeting under uncertainty, capital structure, dividend policy, and market for corporate control and corporate governance.
Introduction to economic concepts and principles, Demand and supply analysis, Elasticity ,Economic Efficiency,
Market failure, Introduction to macroeconomics, Unemployment and inflation, Model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply, Global markets.
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- Case Study (35%)
- eTest (20%)
- Invigilated Examination (45%)
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Prior study
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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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