FINC19011 - Business Finance

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit covers the basic concepts, tools and techniques that financial managers use in the contemporary business context. You will learn about the principle functions of financial managers, the different business structures, and capital markets and financial securities. You will also examine the valuation of investments and portfolio, project evaluation, the cost of capital, market efficiency, risk management, basics of foreign exchange and international financial market, and dividend policy. Completion of the unit will raise your awareness on how businesses and corporate organisations decide on short and long term investment decisions, and the global and domestic economic and contextual factors which influence these decisions.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

ECON11026 or ECON11030 or STAT11048 or MGMT11169

 

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Practical and Written Assessment 30%
2. Online Quiz(zes) 10%
3. Online Test 60%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 63.64% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 17.74% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Self & Student
Feedback
Can add more examples with difficulties similar to final exam.
Recommendation
Explore addition of more examples in some weeks that students typically feel challenging.
Action Taken
This has been implemented in recorded workshops, but further improvements in this regard will continue.
Source: Self
Feedback
Can update some resources.
Recommendation
Continue the normal yearly update process to keep the content relevant.
Action Taken
Excel-modelling was introduced. Additional improvements are expected to continue.
Source: Self & Student
Feedback
Can improve exam question structures.
Recommendation
Some changes have already been undertaken, and more adjustments on the question structure are to continue with the unit returning to the invigilated standard test.
Action Taken
This was implemented in the currently settled online test structure.
Source: Student & Self
Feedback
Can add more examples with difficulties similar to the final test.
Recommendation
Introduce more final test-like questions in study materials.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student & Self
Feedback
Can reduce content amount in some weeks.
Recommendation
Reduction of some content or more streamlining of the content is to be explored while maintaining the same quality and standards.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Identify and explain the critical problems corporate financial managers encounter and solve
  2. Apply finance theories and synthesise related information for corporate valuations, capital structure analysis, financial decision making, and dividend policy formulation
  3. Analyse and form investment decisions using sound capital budgeting techniques
  4. Analyse risk and return for financial decision making
  5. Explain the valuation of financial securities (bonds, shares etc.) and the role of efficient markets.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Practical and Written Assessment • • •
2 - Online Quiz(zes) • •
3 - Online Test • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • • • • •
2 - Problem Solving • • • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • • •
5 - Team Work • • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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