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AFM231 Corporate Finance

Updated: 25 May 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus
TOP Sydney Semester 1 On Campus
TOP Sydney Semester 2 On Campus
Online level Level D - Comp/internet essential
Intensive School(s)
Start Finish Attendance Notes
N/A N/A Non-Mandatory Intensive school has been cancelled
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites AFM101 or AFM217 or AFM317 and QM161 or STAT100
Co-requisites None
Restrictions None
Notes None
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. and Jordan, D.J., McGraw-Hill 8th ed. 2008
Text refers to: Semester 1 and TOP Semester 1 , On and Off Campus
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Standard Edition
ISBN: 9780073382395
Ross, S.A., Westerfield, R.W. and Jordan, D.J., McGraw-Hill/Irwin 9th ed. 2010
Text refers to: Top Semester 2 , On Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
   

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