208-237 Business Finance

Availability

Dookie campus

Credit Points

12.5

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures per week and 2-hours of tutorial per week

Subject Description

This subject introduces the financial environment, the scope and basic principles of finance and their impact on rural and regional businesses.

Topics include: introduction to the financial environment and the role and scope of finance; time value of money; financial statement analysis; capital budgeting and structure; cost of capital and inflation; introduction to pricing of risky assets; capital asset pricing model; introduction to risk; introduction to financial markets; introduction to options and derivatives; foreign currency issues.

Assessment

A 3 hour end-of-semester examination (50%), a 2-hour written mid-semester test (25%) and assessment of tutorial worksheets equivalent to 2500 words (25%).

Prescribed Texts

  • TBC G Pierson, R Brown, S Easton and P Howard, Business Finance. McGraw Hill, 7th ed,1998.


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