FINC201-13S1 (C) Semester One 2013

Business Finance

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 18 February 2013
End Date: Sunday, 23 June 2013
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 3 March 2013
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 19 May 2013

Description

The core principles of the financial management of business firms.

Learning Outcomes

  • The course aims to teach students the basic analytical tools of finance. Specifically, by the end of the course you should be able to:

  • Understand the difference between accounting and finance
  • Solve time value of money problems, including the valuation of bonds and stocks
  • Solve financial planning models and working capital problems
  • Understand the different project evaluation techniques and apply them to investment decisions
  • Understand cost of capital concepts and compute a firm’s weighted average cost of capital
  • Understand issues concerning the capital structure of the firm
  • Understand a range of dividend policies

Prerequisites

ACCT102 and STAT101 or MSCI110, plus at least 45 additional 100-level points from the BCom or BSC schedules. RP: Students without a mathematics background equivalent to NCEA Level 2 should pass MATH101 before enrolling in this course.

Restrictions

FINC202, AFIS204

Equivalent Courses

AFIS204

Recommended Preparation

Students without a mathematics background equivalent to NCEA Level 2 should pass MATH101 before enrolling in this course.

Course Coordinator

Debra Reed

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 50%
Quizzes 10% Weekly quizzes
Mid-term test 40%


In order to pass this course, students are required to receive a mark of at least 50% on the final examination.  

This means you can get a 50% overall and still fail the course because you did not earn 50% on the final exam.

If you earn between 50-54% on the final exam, you will receive a C- which will not be sufficient to go on to 300-level finance and will not be sufficient for NZICA.  However, you will receive the 15 points of credit toward your degree.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Brealey, Richard A., Myers, Stewart C., Marcus, Alan J; Fundamentals of corporate finance ; 7th; McGraw Hill, 2012.

Course links

Course Outline

Notes

This course will use Microsoft PowerPoint in lectures.  The slides will be available on LEARN before class.  There will be gaps that you will need to complete during the lecture.  The complete slides will not be available to students.  If you miss the lecture, you will need to depend on other students to get the material.  You will need to be familiar with material other than the PowerPoint presentations such as the textbook, lecture notes, tutorial material and any other supplementary material.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $682.00

International fee $3,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 100

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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