Course overview
This course will equip students with an advanced and integrated understanding of the financial principles which constitute the conceptual framework of modern finance, and the ability to apply those principles to advanced examples to achieve sound financial decisions. Present value concepts; discounted cash flow techniques; risk; required rates of return; debt capacity; dividend policy; cash management; short term financial management; leasing; debtors management; debt valuation; equity models; dividend valuation; capital structure and cost of capital.
Course learning outcomes
- Present an explanation of an integrated advanced conceptual framework within which financial decisions are made in profit seeking firms, especially the concepts of present value, and risk/return trade-offs.
- Evaluate complex physical investment decisions using DCF techniques.
- Build and manipulate financial models to understand the linkages between the various financial components of firms.
- Evaluate major financial implications of business decisions such as optimum capital structure and dividend policy.
- Critically interpret financial data.
- Apply the knowledge and techniques to make long-term investment and financing decisions in advanced examples.
- Demonstrate UniSA Business Enterprise Skills in the context of the Finance discipline: Teamwork (intermediate level).