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FINC20018 - Managerial Finance

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit provides a fundamental understanding of corporate goals and the allocation of resources, the raising of funds and undertaking of investments by firms, as applicable in organisational management. Students will be introduced to a range of financial decision making concepts such as financial goals, financial markets, financial mathematics, risk and return, asset pricing, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure and dividend policy. This is a task oriented unit, which requires students to learn and apply basic financial tools and concepts for financial decision making. If you have successfully completed the unit FINC20006 you should not enrol in this unit.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 9
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 20%
2. Practical and Written Assessment 20%
3. Group Discussion 10%
4. Examination 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 83.33% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 37.50% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
The unit lecturer/tutor was very effective and knowledgeable in the subject. Mixing up the theories and real-life application of the unit induce learning and having a guest speaker was fantastic.
Recommendation
The teaching team will continue the current teaching practice and integrate various learning resources including guest lecture and alumni talk to create a positive learning environment for students.
Action Taken
The teaching team has committed to a face-to-face teaching wherever is feasible. A hybrid teaching mode is in place with Zoom class for the campus/students who are not able to join the physical class due to the lockdown, and face-to-face class for the campus/students who are able to.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
The lecturer was very supportive towards all the students regardless of their previous background. I really appreciate this aspect of the unit.
Recommendation
The teaching team has focused on the areas that students may find challenging and spent time to reinforce finance concepts and terminologies using real-life examples. The Unit Evaluation demonstrates those students from non-accounting and finance background appreciated this teaching approach.
Action Taken
The teaching team has focused on the areas that students may find challenging and spent some workshop time to reinforce finance concepts and terminologies using exercise questions and case studies. The approach works well especially for students from non-accounting and finance background.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
I really appreciate support from unit coordinator and tutor as they made my way to financial management easy and understandable. Now I enhanced my knowledge in financing and have a clear idea about investing, risk of return and reducing risk etc.
Recommendation
The teaching team will endeavour to support students to achieve the learning outcomes.
Action Taken
The teaching team will endeavour to support students to achieve the learning outcomes.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
Good teaching approach by the unit coordinator.
Recommendation
The teaching team has focused on the areas that students may find challenging and spent some workshop time to reinforce finance concepts and terminologies using exercise questions and case studies. The approach works well especially for students from non-accounting and finance background.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
I really enjoyed the assignments for this course. They were real-world oriented, practical and I learnt a lot from them both.
Recommendation
The assessment questions are based on real-world case studies. All the assessments have been discussed in class with a clear expectation conveyed to students. The workshop sessions have been also recorded and uploaded on the Moodle to ensure that students have access to information and guidelines in preparing their assessments.
Action Taken
Nil.
Source: Unit Evaluation
Feedback
Please clearly identify what the lectures and workshops are in your next course.
Recommendation
The workshop is mainly for class activities and using practical questions and case studies to engage with students, while some of the finance terminologies are explained in detail in the lecture recording. This will require students to prepare the materials before joining the workshop. The teaching team will further clarify.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. examine and describe financial goals in the context of modern firms and financial managers;
  2. analyse the role of financial markets and their functions in a developed economy;
  3. interpret the importance of applying time value of money and risk-return trade-off concepts in finance and how markets value financial instruments, and calculate the values of those instruments and other cash flows relevant to make financial decisions;
  4. analyse and evaluate fixed asset acquisition proposals and make value maximising capital budgeting decisions using appropriate capital budgeting techniques;
  5. compute overall costs of capital (and its components) and interpret its implications to financial decisions; and
  6. critique and communicate the ways in which financing and dividend decisions are made to maximise the value of the firm.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment • • • • •
2 - Practical and Written Assessment • • •
3 - Group Discussion • • • • • •
4 - Examination • • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Knowledge • • • • • •
2 - Communication • • • • • •
4 - Research • •
5 - Self-management •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Advanced Level
• Professional Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 - Written Assessment • • •
2 - Practical and Written Assessment • • • • •
3 - Group Discussion • • •
4 - Examination • •