Undergraduate - UnitBFB2631 - Financial management

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 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.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Banking and Finance
Offered	Berwick Second semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Abey Gunasekarage

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.

Outcomes

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 and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by BFB2631.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 20%
Examination: 80%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Abey Gunasekarage

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester

Prerequisites

Students must have passed one of following: AFG1000, ACG1000, AFP1000, ACP1000, AFW1000, ACW1000 or AFW1001 before undertaking this unit.

Prohibitions

AFC2140, BFC2140, AFF2631, BFF2631, AFG2631, BFG2631, AFP2631, BFP2631, BFW2631, AFW3044