5699 (v.6) Financial Management 550

Area:

Graduate School of Business

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0

** 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. **

Lecture:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Designed as an introduction to accounting and financial management, for managers and professionals without formal business qualifications. Develops knowledge and understanding of a company's financial position, corporate accountability and how these affect business decisions. The assessment of companies according to their liquidity, profitability, financial backing and triple-bottom-line performance. Develops understanding of the real drivers of a business and explain, in financial terms, the costs and benefits of decision alternatives. Provides skills to communicate more effectively with finance and accounting managers.

** 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. **

Field of Education:

080100 Accounting (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2005	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2005	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y		Y
2005	Perth City Campus	Trimester 1	Y
2005	Perth City Campus	Trimester 2	Y
2005	Perth City Campus	Trimester 3	Y		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