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AFM231 Corporate Finance

Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus
Armidale Summer Semester Off Campus

Student fees

Online level Level C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
N/A N/A Optional Residential school cancelled
Exam
  • June
  • Summer
Pre-requisites QM161 or AFM317; for BCompSc: AFM101 or AFM217 or AFM317 or STAT100
Co-requisites None
Restrictions None
Notes offered in summer semester 2007-2008
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Subba Reddy Yarram (syarram@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This is an introductory unit in finance at the second-year level. The major topic areas covered are the finance function and the firm's objectives, valuation of securities, portfolio diversification, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, the Efficient Market Hypothesis, compound interest and present values, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure and dividend policy.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory

Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Corporate Finance Fundamentals
ISBN: 9780071285636
Ross, S.A., Westerfield, R.W., Jordan, D.J., McGraw-Hill 8th ed. 2008
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
ISBN: 9780073134291
Ross, S.A., Westerfield, R.W., and Jordan, B. D., McGraw-Hill/Irwin 7th ed. 2005
Recommended Material
Optional
None
Disclaimer Offer of some subjects is subject to viability. Information in these unit descriptions is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
   

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