Postgraduate CUR-MT515-2022
Financial Principles and Analysis
Expand the range of financial tools and analysis methods in your arsenal. Consider their potential applications in the business sector. Calculate how company values can be advantaged or disadvantaged by the financial decision-making process.
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Study method
100% Online
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Assessments
Subjects may require attendance
Prior study
Not required
QS RANKING 2022
11
Times Higher Education Ranking 2022
17
Subject details
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- describe the basic building blocks of finance
- apply financial tools to value real and financial assets
- analyse and communicate how company values can be enhanced and destroyed via financial decision making
- evaluate and apply the concepts of risk management.
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- Finance overview
- Time value of money
- Interest rates
- Valuations - bonds. Valuations - stocks
- Return, risk, diversification and CAPM
- Capital budgeting decision criteria
- Cashflows and capital budgeting
- Cost of capital
- Capital structure
- Derivatives
- Risk management
In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- OUA-PSU-GCE-2022
- UNE-PRO-GCE-2022
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
Additional materials
This subject covers the monetary decisions that businesses make and the financial tools and analyses used to make these decisions.
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- Invigilated Exam (50%)
- Case Study Assignment (25%)
- Major Assignment (25%)
- Post-Entry Language Assessment (PELA) (0%)