208-237 Business Finance

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208-237 Business Finance
Availability	Dookie campus
Credit Points	12.5
Prerequisites	208-276 Introduction to Business and Finance, 208-292 Accounting for Agribusiness
Semester	1 (view timetable)
Contact	Two 1-hour lectures per week and two 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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