MN12006: Introduction to finance
[Page last updated: 23 October 2023]
| Academic Year: | 2023/24 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | EXCB 80%, EXIC 20% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Mid-semester assessment (EXIC 20%)
- Final examination (EXCB 80%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- Evaluate and interpret financial information and undertake calculations and analysis to support financial management and investment decisions.
- Demonstrate an appreciation of the theory and fundamental principles underlying the understanding and analysis of finance and investment scenarios/ problems/ questions.
- Identify the issues and problems in financial management to be addressed as well as the information and techniques required to do so.
- Appreciate the implications of economic and regulatory factors for financial management and investment.
- Be able to effectively communicate problem formulation, technique(s) used in analysis and interpretation of results so as to influence an expert and/or non-expert audience.
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| Synopsis: | Study fundamental concepts and techniques in finance. You'll explore:
- the issues involved in a firm's investment and financing decisions
- the tools used for new investment appraisal
- calculating the cost of capital
- the effect of capital structure on the value of a firm.
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| Content: | Capital investment decisions
Sources of funding and cost of capital
Capital structure
Dividend policy
Bond and equity analysis.
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| Course availability: |
MN12006 is Compulsory on the following courses:
School of Management
- UMMN-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management (Year 1)
- UMMN-AKB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management with work placement (Year 1)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2023/24 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2024/25 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2023/24.
- Courses and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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