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FINM2001 Corporate Finance

Later Year Course

Offered By School of Finance and Applied Statistics
Academic Career Undergraduate
Course Subject Financial Management
Offered in Summer Session, 2009, First Semester, 2009, Second Semester, 2009, Summer Session, 2010, First Semester, 2010, and Second Semester, 2010
Unit Value 6 units
Course Description

This is a course in the finance discipline with a specific focus on corporate issues. Covers a range of topics designed to provide a general understanding of modern finance theory and practice. Topics include: capital markets; financial decision-making under uncertainty; assessment of risk; portfolio theory; valuation of equity and debt instruments; pricing of risky assets; efficient markets; corporate financing decisions; corporate dividend decisions; capital budgeting concepts and applications and international finance.

Learning Outcomes On completion of this course students should understand and be able to apply the processes and applications outlined in the course description.
Indicative Assessment
  • In-Tutorial Quizzes (3) 10%
  • Essay 10%
  • Mid-semester Examination 20%
  • Final Examination 60%
Workload

At least three contact hours per week plus private study time.

Areas of Interest Finance
Requisite Statement

FINM1001 Money, Markets and Finance.

Incompatibility Incompatible with COMM2005
Prescribed Texts

See Course Website:  http://ecocomm.anu.edu.au/courses/course.asp?code=FINM2001

Preliminary Reading

See Course Website:  http://ecocomm.anu.edu.au/courses/course.asp?code=FINM2001

 

Indicative Reading List

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Other Information

For further information please refer to http://ecocomm.anu.edu.au/courses/course.asp?code=FINM2001

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