On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Appreciate the importance of finance and risk in personal/business decisions;
2. Communicate with clarity the investment, financing and dividend decision processes of the firm;
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the role cash flow estimates and analysis have in these decision processes;
4. Utilise financial mathematical models to solve investment problems;
5. Display an understanding of capital asset pricing model;
6. Identify the basic instruments of corporate funding and have an elementary understanding of the issues underlying capital structure theory and practice; and
7. Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of risk management and its importance to management.

Topics covered in this course include but are not limited to the following:
1. Specification of corporate objectives;
2. the time value of money;
3. evaluation of investment projects;
4. risk and return concepts;
5. intorduction to capital asset pricing model;
6. capital markets;
7. sources of finance;
8. financing decisions;
9. dividend decisions;
10.cost of capital.

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No prior knowledge of corporate finance is required however it is expected that students have the required academic skills in information collection, evaluation, compilation and presentation.

External Mode
Flexible Delivery / Student Centred Learning
Internal Mode

Lecture
Tutorial

Lecture: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term