208-165 Financial Management I

Availability

Dookie campus

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Mr Peter McSweeney

Semester

1, repeat 2 (view timetable)

Contact

Twenty-four hours of lectures (2 hours per week) and 36 hours of tutorials (3 hours per week). Residential workshop for flexible-delivery students

Subject Description

Topics include:

  • financial management (principles and responsibilities);

  • financial recording/reporting of information systems;

  • analysis and interpretation of accounting/financial information;

  • business structure;

  • financial statements (profit, cashflow, balance sheets);

  • budgets and planning;

  • costing methods;

  • computer business applications;

  • debt finance;

  • leasing decisions;

  • direct taxes;

  • indirect taxes; and

  • taxation planning issues.

Assessment

One 2.5-hour written examination worth 40% of final marks, two assignments equivalent to 3000 words and worth 30% of final marks each.

Prescribed Texts

  • Makeham and Malcolm, The Farming Game Now. Cambridge Press, 1993.


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