CO5109 - Corporate Finance

[To be introduced in Guangzhou in 2009]

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

This subject develops skills and knowledge in areas of financial management. Emphasis will be on: consumption and investment decision under certainty; valuation of corporate securities; capital budgeting under certainty and uncertainty; concept of risk; portfolio theory; capital asset pricing theory; cost of capital; corporate capital structure decision; dividend decision and policy and options and coporate finance.

Learning Outcomes

• To understand pro-forma statements, ratio analysis, discounted cash flow valuation and risk analysis;
• To understand the notion of market efficiency, the valuation of options and other derivatives;
• To understand fixed-income and stocks valuation, the capital budgeting process and how to select investment projects;
• To determine the optimal capital structure of the firm and how it is affected by taxes.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to calculate, produce, interpret and communicate numerical information;
• The ability to select and use appropriate IT tools.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

LB5211

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 8
Census Date 05-Sep-2008
Face to face teaching 01-Aug-2008 to 17-Aug-2008
Coordinator:	Professor Brendan O'Connell
Lecturer:	Mr Stephen Stanton.
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - Consisting of 30 hrs lectures and 10 hrs of lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (45%); other exams (45%); as per the subject study guide (10%).
Cairns, Block, Study Period 8
Census Date 05-Sep-2008
Face to face teaching 15-Aug-2008 to 12-Oct-2008
Coord/Lect:	Professor Brendan O'Connell.
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - Consisting of 30 hrs lectures and 10 hrs of lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (45%); other exams (45%); as per the subject study guide (10%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53
Census Date 28-Nov-2008
Coordinator:	Mr Stephen Stanton
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - Consisting of 30 hrs lectures and 10 hrs of lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (45%); other exams (45%); as per the subject study guide (10%).
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21
Census Date 18-Apr-2008
Coordinator:	Professor Brendan O'Connell
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - Consisting of 30 hrs lectures and 10 hrs of lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (45%); other exams (45%); as per the subject study guide (10%).
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22
Census Date 15-Aug-2008
Coordinator:	Professor Brendan O'Connell
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - Consisting of 30 hrs lectures and 10 hrs of lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (45%); other exams (45%); as per the subject study guide (10%).
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23
Census Date 12-Dec-2008
Coordinator:	Mr Stephen Stanton
Contact hours:	40 hours lectures - Consisting of 30 hrs lectures and 10 hrs of lecturer directed activities.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (45%); other exams (45%); as per the subject study guide (10%).

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