Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Lecturer and Unit Convenor
Chi Truong
Contact via via Dialogues in iLearn
E4A R230
2-3 pm Wednesday
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
(Admission to BActStud or BActStudBSc or BAppFinBActStud or BActStudBProfPrac) and 12cp at 100 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit equips students to understand corporate financial reporting and corporate finance decision-making. It provides a basic understanding of financial reporting and how to interpret financial statements, and integrates this with corporate financial decisions such as raising finance, determining capital structure including liquidity, paying dividends, and assessing capital investments, in the context of the Australian financial sector. Students will also understand and apply basic theoretical concepts in finance. Students gaining a grade of credit or higher in this unit may apply for exemption from subject CT2 of the professional exams of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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 for all assessment tasks will be provided on the unit iLearn site.
Tasks 10% or less – No extensions will be granted. Students who have not submitted the task prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task, except for cases in which an application for special consideration is made and approved.
Tasks above 10% - 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 special consideration is made and approved. No submission will be accepted after solutions have been posted.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Class Test | 20% | No | 30 September |
Group Assignment | 20% | No | Various |
Final Examination | 60% | No | Examination period |
Due: 30 September
Weighting: 20%
A class test covering the material taught in the first 6 weeks of the course will be held in the first 90 minutes of the lecture time in Week 08. The test will be of 90 minutes duration.
No cheat sheet is allowed for class test.
Due: Various
Weighting: 20%
You will be assigned to a group to work on your Group Assignment.
The assignment report and related files must be submitted electronically via iLearn.
You will use iLearn's peer assessment tool to assess the contribution of members in your group. This peer assessment will be kept confidential.
Please refer to iLearn for assignment due dates.
Due: Examination period
Weighting: 60%
A three hour final examination for this unit will be held during the University Examination period.
You are permitted ONE A4 page of paper containing reference material printed on both sides. The material may be handwritten or typed. The page will not be returned at the end of the final examination.
Brealey, R., Myers, S., and Allen, F. 2019. Principles of Corporate Finance (13th ed.). McGraw-Hill
Reference
Ross, S., Westerfield, R. and Jordan, B., 2019. Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (12th ed.). McGraw-Hill
Hoggett, J., Medlin, J., Chalmers, K., Beattie, C., Hellmann, A., Maxfield J., 2018. Accounting (10th ed.). Wiley
Weygandt, J., Kieso, D., Kimmel, P. 2016. Financial Accounting (10th ed.). Wiley
Technology Used and Required
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.
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.
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.
Unit schedule will be provided in iLearn.
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Supplementary Exams
Further information regarding supplementary exams, including dates, is available here
https://students.mq.edu.au/study/my-study-program/special-consideration
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Changes include:
1. The textbook has been changed to Brealey et al. 2019.
2. Some topics have been added to be in line with CB2 curriculum