FINAN200-22A (HAM)

Financial Management 1

15 Points

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Division of Management
School of Accounting, Finance and Economics

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Paper Description

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This paper covers capital budgeting and working capital management for private and public sector organisations. Three key important questions are answered in this course: What long-term investments should the firm take on? The cost of long-term financing to pay for the investment? How will we manage the everyday financial activities of the firm?

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Paper Structure

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Lectures

Students gain a thorough understanding and insight into the three most critical issues in finance through lecture sessions on capital budgeting, capital structure, and capital markets. All communications are done through Moodle. It enables students to access all course materials and activities.

Tutorials

Tutorials start in the 2nd week of A Trimester 2022. All students should attend one tutorial (one hour) per week.

The tutorials will be scheduled on-campus and online (NOTE: Not all the tutorial sections will be available and some sections will be scheduled online. Please refer to Moodle for detailed information). The students need to do their tutorial selection through Moodle.

The size of any tutorial group is limited, due to the size of the venue. Once a particular tutorial group has reached this limit, it will no longer be available as an option to other students, so please make your selection as early as possible.

Moodle - Primary source of information for updates on the FINAN200-22A Teaching and Learning related activities (if any)

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Learning Outcomes

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Students who successfully complete the paper should be able to:

  • 1. Illustrate and identify capital budgeting techniques and the analysis of evaluating projects. (LO1).

    Apply financial problem-solving skills to evaluate long-term investment decisions.

    Linked to the following assessments:
    Online Quizzes (1)
    Mid-term Test (2)
    Individual Assignment (4)
  • 2.Interpret and Identify the relationship between risk and return in the context of determining cost of capital for project valuation. (LO 2).
    Linked to the following assessments:
    Online Quizzes (1)
    Mid-term Test (2)
    Individual Assignment (4)
  • 3. Explain and compute a firm's cost of equity capital, cost of debt, and overall cost of capital. (LO 3).

    Illustrate and identify the problems of using the weighted average cost of capital as a discounted rate for project valuation and the solutions.

    Linked to the following assessments:
    Online Quizzes (1)
    Final Test (3)
    Individual Assignment (4)
  • 4. Describe the venture capital market and its role in financing new businesses (LO 4).

    Discuss how securities are sold and what investment bankers do to assist a firm.

    Linked to the following assessments:
    Online Quizzes (1)
    Final Test (3)
    Individual Assignment (4)
  • 5. Illustrate what financial leverage is and explain the effects of financial leverage on cash flows and the cost of capital for a firm [LO 5].
    Linked to the following assessments:
    Online Quizzes (1)
    Final Test (3)
    Individual Assignment (4)
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Assessment

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Content/Foundational Skill: Both critical-thinking and problem-solving questions will be included in the Assignments, Midterm Test, and Final Test. The critical-thinking questions (i.e., short essay questions) will be evaluated by Communication Skills, Professionalism and Innovation. There is an expectation that students demonstrate academic integrity when they attempt the assignments in this paper. Moreover, referencing academic research articles to answer the questions will be rewarded in terms of marks (But referencing non-academic websites, such as Investopedia, will not have a reward). The design is to motivate students to achieve effective academic reading.

The critical-thinking questions also allow for the evaluation of effective academic reading by students as their answers will demonstrate their understanding of the concepts explored in the paper. And the short essay questions require students to demonstrate their business writing ability. For the problem-solving questions (i.e., calculation questions), students are required to show all their workings. These questions require students to perform calculations on data and then to demonstrate their understandings of the numbers calculated, and thus equip students with numeracy skills/using data.

Note: Typed answers or diagrams copied from the web or Panopto will be marked as zero. Turnitin (or a similar index) shouldn't be > 60%.

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Assessment Components

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The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam. The final exam makes up 0% of the overall mark.

The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0 or 0:0, whichever is more favourable for the student. The final exam makes up either 0% or 0% of the overall mark.

Component DescriptionDue Date TimePercentage of overall markSubmission MethodCompulsory
1. Online Quizzes
20
  • Online: Submit through Moodle
2. Mid-term Test
12 Apr 2022
3:00 PM
20
  • Online: Submit through Moodle
3. Final Test
7 Jun 2022
3:00 PM
30
  • Online: Submit through Moodle
4. Individual Assignment
21 Jun 2022
11:30 PM
30
  • Online: Submit through Moodle
Assessment Total:     100    
Failing to complete a compulsory assessment component of a paper will result in an IC grade
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Required and Recommended Readings

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Required Readings

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Recommended Readings

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Other Resources

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Studiosity

MindTap, providing topic features - websites, practice exercises,videos and questions on a weekly basis.

Weekly references to an online news item relating to the topics

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Online Support

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Lecture slides, tutorial resources and related teaching materials will be available in Moodle.

Studiosity

MindTap

Cengage App downloadable from Google play provides mobile access to Text book and MindTap support.

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Workload

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The course has 36 (3 X 12) contact hours (lectures and tutorials). The rest of the 150 hours expected workload in this 15-point paper can be distributed as follows: 20 hours to complete the Assignment, 35 hours to prepare for and attend the Midterm Test and 59 hours to prepare for and attend the Final Test.

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Linkages to Other Papers

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There is a significant interrelationship between finance and non-finance areas. First, finance and accounting are related since accounting information is needed for finance decision. Second, finance and economics are related because economic activity and policy affect finance decisions, and vice versa. Finance and management are related because the management decisions, such as setting salary, hiring new staff and paying bonus must be coordinated with finance. Finance and information system are related because finance decisions rely on information. Last but not least, there are four ps of marketing, product, price, place and promotion. Clearly, the price and promotion, e.g., advisement are related to finance.
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Prerequisite(s)

Prerequisite papers: FINA201 or FINAN101

Corequisite(s)

Equivalent(s)

Restriction(s)

Restricted papers: FINA311, FINA510

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