Strategic Financial Analysis
UndergraduateUSA-ACG372021
Course information for 2021 intake
Scrutinise business analysis processes and frameworks.
Leaf through a firm's financial statements and assess their strategies. Find out how mergers and acquisitions work. Pore over corporate governance and regulatory compliance requirements.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Strategic Financial Analysis
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- Examine the role of financial statements in the analysis of business strategy, performance appraisal and monitoring, valuation, credit assessment, and stakeholder reporting.
- Utilise financial statement information to undertake assessments of a firm's business, competitive and corporate strategy decisions, and its position and sustainability within its industry sector.
- Discuss how accounting rules, regulations and conventions impact the interpretation and use of financial statements in business analysis.
- Provide critical financial assessments of the firm's operating, financing and investment decisions relative to its own historical performance and to the contemporary performance of its competitors and peers.
- Identify the role for and requirements of financial statement information in appraisals of governance and regulatory compliance.
- Undertake forecasts for valuation, strategy and policy analyses using financial statements and other sources of business and economic information..
- Introduction: A Framework for Business Analysis and Valuation
- Strategy Analysis
- Accounting Analysis and Implementation
- Financial Analysis
- Communication and Governance
- Prospective Analysis 1: Forecasting
- Prospective Analysis 2: Valuation Theory and Implementation
- Equity
- Credit analysis
- Mergers and acquisitions
This subject is designed to improve students’ conceptual grasp of the role and practical application of financial statements in business analysis, particularly as it applies to valuation, credit assessment, strategic decision-making, and assessment of corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
- 1500 words (40%)
- 1500 words (40%)
- continuous assessment (20%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
USA-ACG12-Financial Accounting 1 (no longer available)
and one of
USA-ACG23-Business Finance (no longer available)
USA-ACG32 (Not currently available)
Others
Prior to enrolling, students must have successfully completed 72CP (16 subjects) of study.
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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