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2010 Course Handbook

ACST829: Capital Budgeting and Financial Modelling

This unit covers established methods for the valuation and appraisal of investment projects and related financial decisions, the new "real options approach" to investment appraisal, including the application of exotic options pricing formulae to real options using Microsoft Excel to build financial models and introducing students to Visual Basic/Excel macros for financial modelling.

Credit Points:4
Contact Hours:--
When Offered: E1 - Evening; Offered in the first half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: No Session)
Staff Contact: Mr Tim Kyng
Prerequisites:

(ACST601 and ACST603 and ACST604) or admission to MCom or MIB or MEc or MActPrac prior to 2011

Corequisites:

NCCWs:

Unit Designations: Commerce
Economics
Assessed As: Graded
Offered By:

Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies


Faculty of Business and Economics