Area: |
School of Economics and Finance |
Credits: |
25.0 |
Contact Hours: |
3.0 |
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| ** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. ** |
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Seminar: |
1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
Prerequisite(s): |
11948 (v.2) Finance (Managerial) 512 or any previous version
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Syllabus: |
Examination of the motives and incentives for mergers, acquisitions and takeovers. Measuring security price performance. The causes and consequences of takeovers. Corporate raiders. Corporate governance through proxy contests. The effects of share marketrepurchases versus cash dividends as forms of corporate payouts. Anti-takeover defence mechanisms. Executive compensations structures, ownership and firm performance. |
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| ** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** |
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Field of Education: |
81101 Banking and Finance |
HECS Band (if applicable): |
2 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information: |
Informational |
Result Type: |
Grade/Mark |
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Availability |
| Year |
Location |
Period |
Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
| 2004 |
Bentley Campus |
Semester 1 |
Y |
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Y |
| 2004 |
Open University HK |
Trimester 2A |
Y |
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Area
External |
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central
External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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