Business Finance (11215.2)

Availability

• UC - Canberra, Bruce

  Year	Teaching Period	Convener		Mode of Delivery
  2021	Semester 1	DR   Bomikazi   ZEKA	(Ph: +61 2 62012814 )	FLEXIBLE
  2021	Semester 2	DR   Abu   MOLLIK	(Ph: +61 2 62012019 )	FLEXIBLE

• UCI - SVKM's Institute of International Studies, Mumbai

  Year	Teaching Period	Convener		Mode of Delivery
  2021	Global Pathways Program Semester 1	DR   Bomikazi   ZEKA	(Ph: +61 2 62012814 )	ON-CAMPUS

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Syllabus

This is a problem oriented unit which requires students to learn and apply various fundamental finance concepts and tools for typical financial decision making by business enterprises within a framework of maximising shareholder wealth. Students are introduced to a range of concepts such as financial goals, time value of money, risk and return analysis, asset pricing, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, and dividend policies.

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Explain the goals of financial management of a firm and basic finance principles, including the time value of money concepts, risk-return relationship, efficient market and portfolio diversification concepts;

2. Differentiate and explain theories and models used in investment, financing and dividend decisions;

3. Select and apply appropriate models and techniques to solve problems relating to the valuation of shares and bonds, alternative capital investment proposals, and to calculate cost of capital; and

4. Apply capital structure theories and dividend policies to solve problems involving financing and dividend distribution decisions.

Assessment Items

Contact Hours

One 2 hour lecture/seminar and one 1 hour tutorial/workshop on-campus per week.

Prerequisites

11165 Quantitative Methods in Commerce.

Corequisites

None.

Assumed Knowledge

School/college level mathematics and/or statistics, accounting or economics knowledge.

Incompatible Units

6224 Business Finance PG.

Equivalent Units

6392 Business Finance.