FINC608-20S2 (C) Semester Two 2020

Applied Financial Analysis and Valuation

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2020
End Date: Sunday, 8 November 2020
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 24 July 2020
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 25 September 2020

Description

The use and application of accounting information to financial problems.

Learning Outcomes

In terms of specific learning objectives, students, by the end of the course, will be able to:

1. Recast company financial reports (income statement, balance sheet etc.)  in a standard form so that the reports of different companies can be directly compared with each other or the reports of one company can be compared over time.
2. Reconstitute the financial reports of companies to reverse the effects of (perhaps misleading) company accounting policy decisions.
3. Forecast company funding needs from pro-forma balance sheets and income statements via the Additional Funds Needed model.
4. Value the equity of a company using a present value method that takes information directly from the company’s financial reports.
5. Employ the Black-Scholes option pricing model to value a range of investment projects of various types (projects where the choices to delay, extend or, even in the future, abandon all have a calculable value).
6. Perform a diagnosis as to whether a company is entering (or is in) a state of financial distress, employing several different techniques (Altman’s Z-score, Argenti’s balanced scorecard, the Black-Scholes option pricing model applied to real options).
7. Undertake a critical evaluation of recent developments in the research record concerning financial distress (this is a postgraduate undertaking only)
8. Perform an analysis of a firm’s equity employing the Bloomberg database and its related tools.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of Head of Department

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final exam 40% Comprehensive exam.
Assignment 20% Literature Review
Test 20% Term test
Project 12 Oct 2020 20% Analytical project

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $982.00

* 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.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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  • FINC608-20S2 (C) Semester Two 2020