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Finance Theory - Corporate Finance (FNCE90042)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 2
Email: bruceg@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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This subject will cover both theory and evidence. Topics covered will include raising capital, capital structure choice, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, contracting and incentives, game theory and signalling models, default and renegotiation and security design.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Analyse firms’ investment decisions under idealized settings and explain the importance of these decisions for shareholders and the economy
- Analyse the legal and institutional determinants of investment and financing decisions
- Analyse effects of moral hazard and adverse selection on firms’ investment and financing decisions
- Analyse the effects of contracts on problems of moral hazard and adverse selection
- Analyse dynamic models of investment and financing decisions and compare these with traditional static models
Generic skills
On successful completion of this subject, students should have improved the following generic skills:
- Oral communication
- Written communication
- Collaborative learning
- Problem solving
- Team work
- Statistical reasoning
- Application of theory to practice
- Interpretation & analysis
- Critical thinking
- Synthesis of data and other information
- Evaluation of data and other information
- Using computer software
- Accessing data and other information from a range of sources
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission to the PhD program in Finance
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- 2000 word assignment or equivalent (20%)
- 2 hour mid semester examination (40%)
- 2 hour end-of-semester examination (40%)
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Bruce Grundy Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours One three-hour lecture per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Email: bruceg@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
Estimated total time commitment of 170 hours per semester
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
You will be advised of prescribed texts by your lecturer.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Doctor of Philosophy - Business and Economics Course Master of Commerce (Finance) Course Master of Commerce (Accounting)
Last updated: 3 November 2022