Undergraduate - UnitBFF3651 - Treasury 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	Caulfield First semester 2014 (Day) Caulfield Second semester 2014 (Day)

Synopsis

The role of treasury, coordination and management of the treasury operation, quantitative and qualitative risk analysis, risk management process and hedging techniques, role and mechanics of derivative products, performance measurement and evaluation.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

explain the role of treasury operations in an international or a local bank
describe how risk management processes work
demonstrate the application of hedging techniques used in banks' treasury operations
apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills to individual and/or group activities dealing with treasury management and demonstrate in an individual summative assessment task the acquisition of a comprehensive understanding of the topics covered by BFF3651.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 40%
Examination: 60%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Tram Vu

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester

Prerequisites

Students must have passed AFF2401, BFF2401, BFW2401 or AFW2401 before undertaking this unit.

Prohibitions

AFW3651, BFW3651, AFF3651