Corporate Financial Management
Duration
One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2023 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Swinburne Online Teaching Period 1 |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 | |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
The aim of the unit is to foster a robust financial awareness in students and enable them to make informed investment and financing decisions for sustainable value creation and understand the relationship between risk and reward. It is intended to create appropriate practical skills of seeking out information, looking at a problem from the perspectives of leadership challenges, marketing imperatives, technological changes, strategic fits, and financial prudence, and engaging into meaningful debate on those issues. It helps students to take effective, ethical and timely actions as to current and future acquisition and allocation of resources in a complex global environment.
4. Evaluate financial management principles to the analyse, design, and operate business models.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of the financial techniques necessary for the correct evaluation of a firm’s financing and investment options.
2. Generate innovative solutions to problems in corporate financial decision making.
3. Critically analyse analytical tools derived from finance theory.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Face to Face Mode:
Scheduled hours: Class (12 x 3 hrs)
Independent Learning
114 hours (12 x 9.5 hours)
Other Student workload: Other activities including independent study and assessment tasks for a total of approximately 150 hours.
Swinburne Online:
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning
150 hours (12 x 12.5 hours)
Other Student workload: Students are expected to spend 5 hrs per week in engagement online with learning activities and discussion boards; and other activities including independent study and assessment tasks for a total of approximately 150 hours
Assessment
Online Test (Individual) 10-20%
Assignment (Individual) 40-50%
Final Examination (Individual) 30-50%
Assignment (Individual) 40-50%
Final Examination (Individual) 30-50%
Content
- The role of finance in business
- The goal of financial management
- The concept and use of time value of money
- Valuation of shares and securities
- Capital budgeting decisions
- Capital market efficiency
- Risk and return
- Cost of Capital
- Capital structure and leverage analysis
- Financing decision for a growing firm
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.