MBAZ603-19T4 (C) Term Four 2019

Managerial Finance

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 7 October 2019
End Date: Sunday, 15 December 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 18 October 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 22 November 2019

Description

The application of financial techniques, tools and principles needed to assess the performance of projects and organisations and consider the economic viability of their ongoing success. A consideration of financial risk management and the process required to minimize such risks in different organisational settings.

The course focuses on understanding the purpose and tasks undertaken by finance and treasury managers in organisations.

It looks at the ways organisations raise and utilise funding and provides the tools necessary to assess the potential and existing performance of projects and investments.  

It also takes a detailed look at how organisations manage financial risk.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the paper, you will have:

1. An understanding of how the finance role fits in to organisations;
2. An understanding of how to evaluate cash flows over time, in order to make informed decisions on maximising shareholder wealth;
3. An understanding of project evaluation from a finance perspective;
4. An understanding of how financial markets work and how organisations can utilise financial markets to achieve the goals of the organisation;
5. An understanding of financial risk, and how to manage it;
6. An understanding of portfolio returns, and how to achieve them;
7. An understanding of how organisations use debt and equity to fund expansion and acquisitions.

Prerequisites

Subject to the approval of the Programme Director

Restrictions

MBUS621, MBAD611

Course Coordinator

Xiaopeng Wei

Textbooks / Resources

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (2014) Ross, Bianchi, Christensen, Drew, Westerfield, Jordan. McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd, 6th edition.

ISBN: 9780071013192

Additional material will be supplied.

Course links

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Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,193.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 10 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Business Taught Masters Programmes .

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