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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

11038 (v.4) Finance (Corporate) 307

Area: School of Economics and Finance
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 12607 (v.3) Finance (Principles) 215 or any previous version
OR
2807 (v.5) Finance (Managerial) 212 or any previous version
Syllabus: This Unit focuses on some of the important aspects of the corporate finance theories and relevant tools and techniques to facilitate financial decision making. It aims to expose students to and familiarise them with corporate sector financial management by examining the main issues faced by financial managers of public companies. Topics covered are: Information asymmetry and signalling, agency theory, capital markets and sources of funds, capital budgeting under uncertainty, capital structure, dividend policy, and the market for corporate control and corporate governance.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 081101 Banking and Finance
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2       Y  
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2012 Sydney Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Sydney Campus Semester 2 Y        
2012 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 1 Y        
2012 INTI Intern'l College Penang Semester 1 Y        
2012 INTI Intern'l College Penang Semester 2 Y        
2012 INTI Intern'l College Penang Semester 2 Y        
2012 Metropolitan College Malaysia Semester 1 Y        
2012 Metropolitan College Malaysia Semester 2 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        
2012 Singapore Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Singapore Campus Semester 2 Y        
2012 Singapore Campus Summer Semester Y        
2012 UHK SPACE Main Campus Summer Semester Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External