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.

Late submissions of assessments

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, no extensions will be granted. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available assessment-task marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24-hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. Late submissions will only be accepted up to 96 hours after the due date and time.

No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g., quizzes, online tests.

Table 1: Penalty calculation based on submission time

Special consideration

To request an extension on the due date/time for a timed or non-timed assessment task, you must submit a Special Consideration application. An application for Special Consideration does not guarantee approval.

The approved extension date for a student becomes the new due date for that student. The late submission penalties above then apply as of the new due date.

Where a Special Consideration application is approved, the student may be offered an alternative assessment or may receive a mark based on the percentage mark achieved by the student in one or more other assessment tasks, at the Unit Convenor’s discretion.  

Lectures

Lectures will be held on campus—please refer to the timetable or eStudent for class details. If you have registered to attend the online lecture, please note that there is no real-time live online class. A lecture recording will be available to students after the on-campus lecture is held.

Tutorials and Practicals

Tutorials will be held in week 01, and then in weeks 06 to 13, inclusive. Practical classes will only be held in weeks 02 to 05. Tutorials and practicals never run concurrently—in any week, you attend either a tutorial or practical, but never both.

Calculators

You may use a calculator in the class tests and at the final exam provided that it is portable, silent and battery operated, but you must show clearly the steps involved in every calculation. In the final exam 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 final exam, and the make/model may be recorded.  

Software

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. You will need to use Excel to do the Group Spreadsheet Project.

Week 01: Simple interest and short-term financial instruments, compound interest and bonds.

Weeks 02–03: Short-term financial instruments and bond prices.

Week 04: Bond prices, bond yields and zero coupon bonds.

Week 05: Re-investment risk and TRCY

Week 06: Horizon analysis.

Week 07: Horizon analysis, bond duration.

Mid-semester break.

Week 08: Bond duration.

Weeks 09-10: Contingent payments, forward contracts.

Week 11: Forward contracts.

Week 12: Option pricing.

Week 13: Revision.