Undergraduate - UnitAFC3140 - Advanced corporate finance

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

print version

6 points, SCA Band 0 (NATIONAL PRIORITY), 0.125 EFTSL

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered, or view unit timetables.

Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Offered	Clayton First semester 2012 (Day) Clayton Second semester 2012 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit extends studies in financial economics introduced in AFC2140. Topics include risk management, asset pricing, leasing, real options, capital structure, mergers, acquisitions and takeovers, corporate management and equity financing.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

evaluate investment and financing decisions;
apply analytical techniques to a variety of problems in domestic corporate financial management
describe the institutional environment in which financial decisions are made including identifying the sources of financial risk and their relevance in financial management
critically evaluate finance theories, concepts, assumptions, limitations and arguments
apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with advanced corporate finance and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by AFC3140.