BU2004 - Financial Management

Credit points:	03
Year:	2008
Student Contribution Band:	Band 3
Administered by:	School of Business

This subject will develop a framework for understanding financing and managing the resources of a business. Managers are concerned with acquiring, financing and managing the business's assets in a challenging environment. The ability to adapt and expand your knowledge base will be developed through examining short-term financial management, the time value of money, capital budgeting, capital structure and risk, allowing you to embrace innovations borne of changing contexts. This subject is compulsory for students wishing to satisfy professional accreditation requirements in the Bachelor of Business (Accounting).

Learning Outcomes

• self-identify misconceptions and common mistakes in financial management;
• develop an understanding of the logic of financial decision making as an integrating theme;
• develop disciplinary knowledge and computational ability in selected topics;
• acquire life long learning skills through collaboratively contributing to peer learning through discussion, feedback and marking.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies.

Prerequisites:	((BU1002 OR CO1101 OR CO1002 OR CO1001) AND (BU1007 OR OR BU1010 OR MA1401))
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	CO2611 AND CO2601

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 04-Apr-2008
Coordinator:	Mr Ben Jacobsen, Professor Brendan O'Connell
Lecturer:	Mr Ian Burnett.
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - The class contact is based upon an inductive approach thus in-class activities will involve periods of supervised student activity, lectures, individual and group work.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Students must submit on-course assessment as directed, which requires attendance and participation in class based work.
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 04-Apr-2008
Coord/Lect:	Mr Ben Jacobsen, Professor Brendan O'Connell.
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - The class contact is based upon an inductive approach thus in-class activities will involve periods of supervised student activity, lectures, individual and group work.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Students must submit on-course assessment as directed, which requires attendance and participation in class based work.
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53
Census Date 28-Nov-2008
Coordinator:	Mr Ben Jacobsen, Professor Brendan O'Connell
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - The class contact is based upon an inductive approach thus in-class activities will involve periods of supervised student activity, lectures, individual and group work.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Students must submit on-course assessment as directed, which requires attendance and participation in class based work.
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21
Census Date 18-Apr-2008
Coordinator:	Mr Ben Jacobsen, Professor Brendan O'Connell
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - The class contact is based upon an inductive approach thus in-class activities will involve periods of supervised student activity, lectures, individual and group work.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Students must submit on-course assessment as directed, which requires attendance and participation in class based work.
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23
Census Date 12-Dec-2008
Coordinator:	Mr Ben Jacobsen, Professor Brendan O'Connell
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - The class contact is based upon an inductive approach thus in-class activities will involve periods of supervised student activity, lectures, individual and group work.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Students must submit on-course assessment as directed, which requires attendance and participation in class based work.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.