Undergraduate - UnitAFW3841 - Lending decisions

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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

Synopsis

Lending environment; decision making and organisation of lending, lending policies and controls; behavioural aspects of decision making and decision-makers; retail, commercial and corporate lending; business expansions; off balance sheet lending; loan management and problem loans.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

apply appropriate analysis techniques to particular loan facilities
analyse the risk return characteristics (and pricing) of a loan application
examine the major types of lending products and gain the ability to match these products to customer needs
investigate the behavioural aspects of decision making and decision makers
describe statistical techniques used in decision making at the approval, monitoring and termination stages of lending
apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with lending decisions and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by AFW3841.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination (3 hours): 70%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Sockalingam Ramasamy

Contact hours

3 hours per week

Prerequisites

Students must have passed two units from the following: AFW2401 and AFG2631 or AFW2631 before undertaking this unit.

Prohibitions

AFF3841