FINC20006  Organisational Finance

On completion of this course you should:

• be able to use financial mathematics for various financial decisions
• be able to understand and critically evaluate “finance” articles appearing in the financial press
• be able to join in rational financial decision making in your organisation
• be appreciative of the progress in finance engendered by theoretical and empirical research.

Successful achievement of these objectives will require your dedicated attention. Finance is a difficult area, requiring strong quantitative ability, sound reasoning skills, and a good retentive faculty.

Topics include: Introduction to finance; Introduction to accounting and finance, terminology and relationships; Financial maths, interest rates, valuation; Capital budgeting; Introduction to risk portfolio theory; Capital asset pricing model - arbitrage pricing theory; Risk analysis in capital budgeting; Capital markets - raising equity; Raising debt, Capital structure; Working capital management; Dividend policy.