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Financial Spreadsheeting (FNCE90045)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2025
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The following topics will be covered: Financial Applications using Excel: basic spreadsheeting skills, functions and the function wizard, worksheet formatting and graphics. Financial problem solving tools: Solver, Goalseek and the Analysis Toolpak. Data management tools, subtotalling, consolidation, sorting filtering and pivot tables. Programming principles with applications to finance: object orientated programming, variable and control structures, writing Excel financial functions and subroutines, and creating add-ins. Communicating with the user of financial applications through message boxes, input boxes and dialogue boxes.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Use all the built-in features of Microsoft Excel;
- Explain the principles of object-orientated programming;
- Apply the principles of object-oriented programming to the development of Visual Basic for Applications programs;
- Integrate various programming structures and concepts to build complex programs;
- Evaluate strategies for finding and fixing computer programming errors;
- Design computer programs that implement solutions in an efficient and effective manner.
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: 4 March 2025