Unit Synopsis
This unit provides a fundamental understanding of management finance. You will examine corporate financial goals and how to realise them through the raising of funds, the allocation of resources and the undertaking of investments by firms. You will be introduced to the theory and use of a range of financial decision making concepts such as financial goals, financial markets, financial mathematics, risk and return, asset pricing, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure and dividend policy.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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. Written Assessment | 20% |
| 2. Practical and Written Assessment | 30% |
| 3. Online Test | 50% |
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%).
Past Exams
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Term 1 - 2025 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 72.73% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 18.18% 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: Unit Evaluation
I really enjoyed the assignments for this course. They were real-world oriented, practical and I learnt a lot from them.
The assessment questions are based on real-world case studies. All the assessments have been discussed in class with a clear expectation conveyed to students. The workshop sessions have been also recorded and uploaded on the Moodle to ensure that students have access to information and guidelines in preparing their assessments.
The assignments will continue to assess both conceptual understanding and practical application, and to address real-world financial decision-making.
Source: Unit Evaluation
I genuinely don't have any finance background, I find it a bit challenge for me.
The teaching team has focused on the areas that students may find challenging and spent more time in workshops to reinforce finance concepts and terminologies using exercise questions and case studies. The approach works well for students from non-accounting and finance background.
The teaching team will commit to support students from all backgrounds to achieve the learning outcomes.
Source: Unit Evaluation
If on-campus classes are taken before 5pm it would be nice.
Some classes run after 5pm, students may find fatigue after a long day in the campus. The classes are scheduled according to the university’s timetabling, we may need to have another look the timetable to accommodate.
The university’s timetabling has scheduled the on-campus classes to daytime.
Source: Unit Evaluation
This was one of the most tech-embracing units I have had at CQUniversity so far. The content is complex, but it was delivered in a way understandable for students coming from different backgrounds.
This unit has used teaching technologies to engage with the students, future activities may continue embracing various methods and tools such as Echo360, youtube videos, online quiz in smartphones, and GenAI.
In Progress
Source: Unit Evaluation
My sincere gratitude to my lecturer who helped me a lot to understand the content and helped me to complete my assessment. Though I am from a medical background I could be able to understand at least few parts of theoretical and its importance in practical life.
It is a challenging unit for students from non-accounting and finance background. The teaching approach may consider reinforcing fundamental concepts and terminologies but gradually enhancing complexity.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Examine and describe financial goals and their realisation in the context of modern firms and financial managers
- Analyse the role of financial markets and their functions in a developed economy
- Evaluate various capital assets and funding strategies
- Evaluate corporate financial decisions related to capital structure and dividend policy aimed at maximising the value of the firm.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment | • | • | ||
| 3 - Online Test | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Research | • | |||
| 5 - Self-management | • | |||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | |||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |