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University of Melbourne

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Business Finance

  • FNCE20001
  • Contact Hours: Semester 1 and 2: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week; Summer Semester: Twenty-four hours of lectures and twelve hours of tutorials
    Total Time Commitment: Not available
  • 12.50
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Topics include basic institutional knowledge of the Australian finance sector and an introduction to the theory of pricing of risky assets, focusing on the Capital Asset Pricing Model; fundamentals of capital budgeting, including methods of allowing for inflation, and the treatment of risk; instruments of corporate funding; the theory and practice of capital structure and dividend policy decisions; and an introduction to complex financial instruments such as options and futures. -- Course Website

Prerequisites: Either: (1) FNCE10001 Finance 1 or (2) An approved quantitative subject and an approved accounting subject. Approved quantitative subjects are: ECON10005 Quantitative Methods 1, MAST10008 Accelerated Mathematics 1; MAST10009 Accelerated Mathematics 2; MAS



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