Gradebook

It is the responsibility of students to view their marks for each within session assessment on iLearn within 20 working days of posting. If there are any discrepancies, students must contact the unit convenor immediately. Failure to do so will mean that queries received after the release of final results regarding assessment marks (not including the final exam mark) will not be addressed.

Assessment Criteria

Assessment criteria for all assessment tasks will be provided on the unit iLearn site.

Late submission or non-attendance penalties

Class Tests and Group Presentation: – No further opportunity to complete this task will be granted. Students who miss the task will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task, except for cases in which an application for disruptions to studies is made and approved.

Assignment: - No extensions will be granted. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late (for example, 25 hours late in submission – 20% penalty). This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for disruption of studies is made and approved. No submission will be accepted after solutions have been posted. 

Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials

Text

Principles of Managerial Finance, 6th edition. Gitman, Juchau and Flanagan, Pearson Australia, 2011.

Reference

Financial Management: Principles and Applications, 7th edition. Titman, Martin, Keown and Martin, Pearson Australia, 2016.

Technology Used and Required

Calculators

You may use a calculator in the class test and in the final examination provided it is portable, silent and battery operated, but you must show clearly the steps involved in every calculation. You may NOT use any calculators that have a text-retrieval capacity, whether or not they have a full alphabet on the keyboard. Calculators may be checked at the commencement of the class test and final exam, and the make/model may be recorded.

Word processing

Students need to have access to word processing software (like Word) to complete the Group Assignment. You will need electronically submit your Assignment (using iLearn) as a PDF file. Check your word processing software can generate a PDF file.

Spreadsheet program

Many of the problems you will encounter in this unit can be solved easily with the spreadsheet program, Excel. You can use this spreadsheet program to verify your solutions to many of the problems you are solving.

Apart from the minor reordering of topics, the following changes inter alia are made to meet the new requirements per the Assessment Policy (effective from S2 2016):

1.  The individual component in the Presentation Assignment now constitutes an overall 50% of the unit weighting.  With this change, 50% of group work assessment is now allocated to individual performance (Schedule 2: 2.3);

2.  A further direct assessment on the Group Assignment is made as a part of the Final Examination.  This assignment component in the Final Examination constitutes an overall 15% unit weighting and makes up the 25% of the Final Examination's overall 60% unit weighting.  With this change, 50% of group work assessment is now allocated to individual performance (Schedule 2: 2.3);

3.  The hurdle requirement in passing the Final Examination is now removed.  As the summative assessment tasks constitute at least 75% of the total unit weighting, the fulfilment of unit and program learning outcomes can be achieved without the 'double pass' requirement (Schedule 2: 3);

4.  The Final Examination duration has been reduced from 3 to 2 hours. (Schedule 4: 2.1)