Postgraduate - UnitAFF5250 - Corporate treasury management

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

1. design corporate treasury as a strategic business unit with clear structure, roles, functions and control systems
2. appraise empirical approaches to net working capital management and the treasurer's role in managing profit-risk trade-off
3. debate empirical estimation of hurdle rates and the treasurer's role in capital budgeting and project risk assessment
4. debate empirical estimation of 'optimal' capital structure and the treasurer's role in optimising debt-equity mix
5. debate Australia's dividend imputation tax system and its implications for corporate treasury goals and operations
6. design debt and equity products (including financial and operational leases) with emphasis on pricing and market considerations
7. evaluate treasury management systems and other decision support systems
8. apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and / or group activities dealing with corporate treasury management and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by AFF5250.