units

FIT5159

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 27 April 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Information Technology
OfferedCaulfield Second semester 2015 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides students with an understanding of the development and use of IT tools and techniques for modelling and decision support in the field of finance. The unit is designed to give students a broad understanding of the financial subsystems confronting business enterprises. The main focus, besides the traditional modelling of finance decision making process using spreadsheet tools, will be IT tools and related techniques that can aid in the analysis and interpretation of real financial problems confronting an enterprise. This unit will look at business related financial issues in the context of specific case studies.

Outcomes

On the completion of this unit, students should be to:

  • explain the core foundations of finance, as appropriate to key financial analysis and decision making;
  • analyse the core technologies that support financial analysis and decision making;
  • implement quantitative techniques supporting financial analysis and decision making;
  • apply the technologies and techniques studied to solving financial issues;
  • analyse financial solution requirements and select appropriate technical and quantitative decision aids;
  • interpret outputs from quantitative and technology based finance tools to aid in decision making.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Two hours of lectures
  • One 2-hour laboratory

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 8 hours independent study per week for completing lab and project work, private study and revision.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Caddie Gao

Prerequisites

FIT9131 or FIT5131 or FIT9004 or FIT9017 or equivalent
Basic descriptive and inferential statistics, some financial accounting and basic business finance knowledge.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit5159/