MBAZ603-18T1 (C) Term One 2018

Managerial Finance

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 29 January 2018
End Date: Sunday, 8 April 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 11 February 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 18 March 2018

Description

The application of financial techniques, tools and principles needed to assess the performance of projects and organisations and consider the economic viability of their ongoing success. A consideration of financial risk management and the process required to minimize such risks in different organisational settings.

The course focuses on understanding the purpose and tasks undertaken by finance and treasury managers in organisations. It looks at the ways organisations raise and utilise funding and provides the tools necessary to assess the potential and existing performance of projects and investments. It also takes a detailed look at how organisations manage financial risk.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the paper, you will have:

1. An understanding of how the finance role fits in to organisations;
2. An understanding of how to evaluate cash flows over time, in order to make informed decisions on maximising shareholder wealth;
3. An understanding of project evaluation from a finance perspective;
4. An understanding of how financial markets work and how organisations can utilise financial markets to achieve the goals of the organisation;
5. An understanding of financial risk, and how to manage it;
6. An understanding of portfolio returns, and how to achieve them;
7. An understanding of how organisations use debt and equity to fund expansion and acquisitions.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Director of Postgraduate Management Development

Restrictions

MBUS621, MBAD611

Timetable Note

Thursdays 9am to midday in L526 - starting Thursday 1 February 2018

NOTE: On Thursday 1st March our lecture will be from 5pm to 8pm. Location to be advised.

Course Coordinator

Oliver Hille

Oli Hille: Ph: 021 55 25 77 (Course Supervisor)

Please us this Email address: oli@author.co.nz

(Please do not use my University email address.)

Assessment

“Learn” Quizzes 3 Quizzes on Learn weight 15%

Mid Term Exam weight 40%

(Important please see “Terms” Requirements re Exam below)

Group Presentations weight 20%

Individual Project weight 25%

Textbooks / Resources

The class slides are your main resource for this paper. We do have a text book for this paper but you do NOT need to purchase it if you do not want to. There are copies in the library and I will give you selected questions from the text book.

Here is the text book:

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (2014) Ross, Bianchi, Christensen, Drew, Westerfield, Jordan. McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd, 6th edition.
ISBN: 9780071013192

Additional material will be supplied.

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,170.00

* 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.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Business Taught Masters Programmes on the departments and faculties page .

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