Classes

• Students should each week attend their allocated lecture of up to two hours duration, and their allocated 50 minute tutorial. Tutorials begin in Week 2 and cover material based on the preceding week's lecture topic.
• No lectures are given in Week 7, as this lecture time is reserved for the mid -semester test. 
• Students should attend PAL Sessions where necessary to improve their understanding of the material covered.
• Attendance at tutorials is very important for successful completion of assessment tasks in this unit. Tutors keep weekly attendance records. These may be taken into consideration in determining the overall unit result. The tutorial attendance record may also be taken into account in considering applications for supplementary end-of-semester final examinations.
• The timetable for classes can be found on the University web site at:http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/

Prizes

Information on prizes is available at MQ website: www.businessandeconomics.edu.au/undergraduate_degrees/prizes_scholarships.

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Required Text (source for weekly tutorial questions)

The textbook will assist you in the weekly quizzes.

• Printed copy: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, Australasian 2nd Edition + iStudy 2 Card
• ISBN : 978-0-7303-0571-2
• E-book:    Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, Australasian 2nd Edition E-Text + iStudy 2
• ISBN : 978-0-7303-0542-2

Available at http://www.wileydirect.com.au/buy/fundamentals-corporate-finance-2nd-edition/

Technology Used and Required

• Financial non-programmable calculators can be used in the unit. A financial calculator is not essential as a scientific non-programmable calculator should meet all your needs (calculation of the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is not required in any of the assessment tasks). Note: Only non-programmable calculators without text retrieval functionality are allowed for use in the unit’s assessments tasks.
• Excel or similar spreadsheeting tool will be required to complete the assignment.
• Students should have access to the internet.

Unit Web Page

• Course material and announcements are available on the learning management system (iLearn).
• Students should check iLearn regularly before each lecture, tutorial and assessment.

Learning and Teaching Activities

The unit is delivered through weekly lectures and tutorial classes. Tutorial questions will mostly be sourced from the required textbook. The question numbers that will be discussed in tutorials will be posted to iLearn each week. Students should attempt these questions before tutorials. Brief answers to the tutorial questions will be posted on iLearn after each week.

To achieve the best possible results students should:

1) Attend all lectures and tutorial classes, though attendance is not compulsory;

2) As it is unlikely that tutors will be able to cover all questions and problems in each tutorial class, students should attempt and complete all assigned questions and problems before attending tutorial classes;

3) Tutorial questions and problems are assigned from the required text book;

4) Read the assigned chapters of the required text book before attending lectures;

5) Download lecture notes from iLearn, which are available weekly before lectures. Ensure these notes are brought to lectures.

6) Attend PAL sessions where difficulties are experienced.

Changes since the last unit offering

1. Weeky online quizzes.
2. Week 4 diagnostic online quiz.
3. Mid semester weighting decreased from 25% to 15%

* Refer to iLearn each week to find the tutorial questions from the recommended textbook.

This unit uses research from external sources including journal articles and other text books which will be made available on iLearn.