Offered
Caulfield First semester 2008 (Evening)
Synopsis
Topics include the credit risk assessment process; accounting fundamentals; reading financial statements (including ratio analysis); using budgeted financial statements (including breakeven analysis, what-if analysis and variance analysis); creative accounting; technical accounting update; business structures; current issues in insolvency and loan security.
Objectives
The learning goals associated with this unit are to:
- develop an understanding of the basic principles governing bank lending
- develop an understanding of the framework within which bank lending decisions are made
- develop an understanding of the analysis of financial statement of a company
- develop analytical skills with regard to the management of credit risk and its measurement techniques
- develop an understanding of new bank lending product development and its marketing.
Assessment
Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination (3 hours): 70%
Contact hours
3 hours per week
