FINC201-11S1 (C) Semester One 2011

Business Finance

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2011
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2011
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2011
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2011

Description

The core principles of the financial management of business firms.

Learning Outcomes

This course will help you acquire the fundamental tools used in financial analysis and apply them to business decisions.  It will introduce you to finance as a discipline that bridges accounting and economics.  It will help you learn to view business decisions from a finance perspective.  The topics covered include time value of money, financial statement analysis, financial planning, working capital management, stock and bond valuation, capital asset investment decision methods, risk and return, portfolio theory, cost of capital, capital structure and dividend policy.

Prerequisites

ACCT102, 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 
Final Exam 40%
10 online multi choice quizzes 10%
Term Test 1 25%
Term Test 2 25%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Brealey, Richard A. , Myers, Stewart C., Marcus, Alan J; Fundamentals of corporate finance ; 6th ed; McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2009.

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 $630.00

International fee $2,775.00

* 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.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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