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Financial Decision Making
Postgraduate | RMI-MPAC70 | 2018
Course information for 2018 intake
Zero in on the key investment, financing and dividend decisions that managers make. Note the advantages and disadvantages of the sector’s most popular investment evaluation methods. Learn from real case studies about businesses’ financial decisions.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
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Financial Decision Making
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject you will be able to:
- CLO1: Demonstrate a broad, critical and practical understanding of financial decision making theories and practices in the real world
- CLO2: Identify valuation models and use them for equity, debt instruments and the firm as a whole
- CLO3: Compare the advantages and disadvantages of the most commonly used methods of investment evaluation
- CLO4: Differentiate between the various costs of capital and calculate these costs
- CLO5: Recognise the significance of capital structure and examine its importance in decision making
- CLO6: Recognise the impact of dividend policy as it applies to firms
- CLO7: Understand the importance of working capital management.
- Introduction and overview of financial Management
- Valuation of Financial Assets & Time Value of Money
- Risk & Return - Capital Market Theory
- Debt and Share Valuation
- Capital Budgeting
- Cost of capital
- Capital structure policy
- Dividend policy
- Working capital management
This subject provides you with the key knowledge and skills required for financial management linking together strategic decision making concepts with day-to-day management decisions. The subject adopts a practical approach using examples taken from Australian companies as well as large international companies. It equips you with techniques and skills that enable you to objectively analyse and evaluate alternatives from a solid theoretical base.
This subject embraces the three key decisions confronting business: The Investment Decision, The Financing Decision and The Working Capital Decision.
- Invigilated Exam - Linked CLOs: 1 - 7 (50%)
- Mid-Session Test - Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3 (20%)
- Assignment - Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 6 (30%)
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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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