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AFM422 Small Business Finance

Updated: 30 March 2010
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study Online Level
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites candidature in MCom
Co-requisites None
Restrictions AFM322
Notes None
Combined Units AFM322 - Small Business Finance
Coordinator(s) Michelle Goyen (mgoyen@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

A unit dealing with the implications for small enterprises of the following: financial management; economic thought; modern finance theory; theoretical issues; financial problems; financial characteristics and performance; investment decision making; financing and profit distribution decisions; financial management practices; financial aspects of ownership; valuation; sources of finance; and accounting information and accountants.
Prescribed Material
Mandatory 		Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Small Enterprise Finance
ISBN: 9780470802052
Holmes, S. and others, Wiley 2002
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment
Title Exam Length Weight Mode No. Words
Assignment 1 10% 1000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 GA: 1, 2, 4 and 6
Assignment 2 10% 1000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 GA: 1, 2, 4 and 6
Assignment 3 20% 1000
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 GA: 1, 2, 4 and 6
Tutorial 10%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 GA: 1, 2, 4 and 6
Final Examination 2 hrs 50%
Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 GA: 1, 2, 4 and 6

Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. demonstrate an understanding of why small firms exist and why they are special;
  2. understand relevant developments in economic and financial theory;
  3. demonstrate an appreciation of the anomalies faced by small firms with respect to the "finance gap", "under pricing" and the "small firm effect" in financial theory;
  4. appreciate the problems faced by new and small firms in respect of growth and performance;
  5. analyse relationships between economic and financial theory and contemporary practice.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
Students will develop an increased knowledge of the discipline through the learning and teaching activities associated with the unit. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
 True True True
3 Global Perspectives
 True
4 Information Literacy
 True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
 True
6 Problem Solving
 True True True
7 Social Responsibility
 True
   

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