Corporate Financial Management
Overview
This unit fosters a robust financial awareness in students and enable them to make informed investment and financing decisions for sustainable value creation and understand the relationship between risk and reward. It is intended to create appropriate practical skills of seeking out information, looking at a problem from the perspectives of leadership challenges, marketing imperatives, technological changes, strategic fits, and financial prudence, and engaging into meaningful debate on those issues. It helps students to take effective, ethical and timely actions as to current and future acquisition and allocation of resources in a complex global environment.
Requisites
01-June-2025
08-June-2025
02-November-2025
08-February-2026
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Apply coherent and advanced knowledge of the financial techniques necessary for the correct evaluation of a firm’s financing and investment options
- Generate innovative and ethical solutions to problems in corporate financial decision making
- Critically analyse analytical tools derived from finance theory
- Evaluate financial management principles to analyse, design, and operate business models
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
| Unspecified Activities Independent Learning | 9.50 | 12 weeks | 114 |
| Online Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Swinburne Online
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.50 | 12 weeks | 150 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Individual | 40 - 50% | 1,2,3,4 |
| Examination | Individual | 30 - 50% | 1,2,4 |
| Online Tests | Individual | 10 - 20% | 1,2,4 |
Content
- The role of finance in business
- The goal of financial management
- The concept and use of time value of money
- Valuation of shares and securities
- Capital budgeting decisions
- Capital market efficiency
- Risk and return
- Cost of Capital
- Capital structure and leverage analysis
- Financing decision for a growing firm
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.