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ACCG353: Corporate Financial Design
This unit challenges the student to consider a comprehensive set of factors that influence organisations in their payout, investment and finance decisions within a dynamic framework. The decision might reflect the personality of a CEO, the composition of competitors or expectations about fluctuations in the economy. In this sense, students need to be able to appreciate the differences between theory and practice. Further, students are encouraged to read academic and professional finance journals and the business sections in the daily press. By the end of the unit students should understand: the theoretical and practical implications of the multifaceted nature of risk; how to combine different facets of risk using portfolios, derivatives and options, and the pricing of these instruments; the different issues (including flexibility) to be considered and the different approaches (including real options) available, in valuing risky projects; issues in determining capital structure; the theory and methods used in assessing the costs and benefits of mergers and acquisitions; and the link between corporate governance and finance. These outcomes contribute to the development of critical, analytical and integrative thinking.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year E2 - Evening; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact(s): | Accounting staff |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies |
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