Financial Accountability and Management
UndergraduateTAS-BFA1072025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 21 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,726
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Financial Accountability and Management
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Explain the theory and processes in financial accountability and management to enable informed decisions.
- Apply financial accountability and management concepts and tools to help users in making informed decisions that incorporate risk, including ESG risks, and returns.
- Communicate financial accountability and management information in a variety of business situations.
- Module 1: Introduction to accountability, principles of finance and financial markets
- Module 2: Time value of money Part a
- Module 3: Time value of money Part b: loan valuation
- Module 4: Risk and return and portfolio theory
- Module 5: The efficient markets hypothesis and capital market theory
- Module 6: Debt valuation and debt markets
- Module 7: Equity valuation and equity markets
- Module 8: Capital budgeting Part a: cash flow estimation and investment decision criteria
- Module 9: Capital budgeting Part b: risk analysis, including ESG risks, and project valuation, cost of capital
- Module 10: Capital structure
- Module 11: Dividend payout policies
- Module 12: Corporate risk management financial statement analysis
This subject will introduce you to the major concepts and analytical tools used in the theory and practice of accountability and financial management in a business organisation. It is designed to provide you with an understanding of:
• the basis of finance concepts including interest rate and the time value of money; the application of time value of money in evaluating different financial
assets such as bonds and equity;
• accountability and the application of financial management concepts in identifying and assessing environmental, social and governance risks; and
• the scope and nature of the finance function and its role within management.
This subject also develops your practical skills in the identification and analysis of financial problems and prepares you to provide advice to users on their decision making and the risks involved, including ESG risks. Specifically, this subject explains the relationship between risk and returns while considering the role and objectives of accountability, financial management and capital budgeting. It introduces students to the role and function of the capital markets, the various sources of finance and the accountability of the actors involved in the process.
- Online Quiz 1 via Respondus (20%)
- Online Quiz 2 via Respondus (30%)
- Major Assignment (50%)
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Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Introductory 1-hour Workshop; 2-hour Workshop x 12 weeks; plus online content.
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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