CO4601:04
Business Finance (Honours)
Townsville
Prerequisites: Admission to BCom(Hons)
40 seminars/workshops. Offered as required.
Staff: Dr S Alison.
The study of finance theory and corporate policy at an advanced level.
Learning Objectives:
- explain the underlying concepts and relationships of mean-variance and stochastic dominance decision theories;
- discuss the relationship between the value of information and efficient capital markets;
- explain the determinants of the pricing of derivative securities;
- identify corporate financial applications of option pricing theory;
- evaluate the published empirical research relating to relevant issues in corporate finance;
- identification and evaluation of the issues relating to the international dimensions of corporate finance theory.
Assessment by project (20%); final examination (80%).
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