AFW2631 - Financial management
6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate Faculty of Business and Economics
Offered
Berwick First semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Sunway First semester 2009 (Day)
Sunway Second semester 2009 (Day)
Singapore First semester 2009 (Off-campus)
Peninsula First semester 2009 (Day)
Synopsis
Time value of money, Theory of valuation, capital budgeting, portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model, efficient market theory, cost of capital, capital structure and dividend policy.
Objectives
The learning goals associated with this unit are to:
- apply the concept of the time value of money and other project evaluation techniques
- explain and apply portfolio theory and the capital asset pricing model
- measure a firm's cost of capital
- describe dividend policy and its relevance to the value of a firm
- apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with financial management.
Assessment
Within semester assessment: 20%
Examination (3 hours): 80%
Prerequisites
AFW1000 or AFW1001 (pre 2009)
Prohibitions
13 October 2017
19 December 2024