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Corporate Financial Management

Unit Code: HBC609

Duration

Contact Hours

Campus

Prerequisite

Corequisite

One teaching period

36 hours

Hawthorn

None

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points

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Aims & 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. It helps students to distinguish between ‘opportunities’ and
‘traps’ as well as 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.
The general thrust of the unit is to enhance the ability to utilise the disciplines of finance and quantitative analysis in
decision-making. This, in turn, develops the skill of making informed judgements and help taking effective, ethical and
timely actions as to current and future acquisition and allocation of resources in a complex global environment.
 
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
  • Apply the financial techniques necessary for the correct evaluation of a firm’s financing and investment options
  • Decipher the messages the market sends about the proper objectives of corporate financial decision making
  • Present and discuss analytical tools derived from finance theory
  • Evaluate alternative solutions to corporate finance problems 
  • Examine how companies create value and how corporate finance can facilitate the process of value creation
  • Discuss why the various theories make sense and how those theories can help solve finance problems


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Teaching Methods:

Delivered in 3 hour sessions in evenings or 5 hour sessions in block delivery. Total student workload is 120 hours.


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Assessment:

Tests (Individual) 20-30%
Assignment (Individual) 10-15%
Exam (Individual) 60-70%


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Generic Skills Outcomes:

This unit aims to achieve the following in our students:
  • Analysis skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
  • Ability to work independently
  • Ability to consider local and international environments


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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

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Textbooks:

Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.

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