Module code: ACFI 3203
Module description
By undertaking this module, students are introduced to the main principles of corporate financial decision-making. Analytically, using normative economic theory as the basic philosophical foundation, students are exposed to the three essential parts of business finance, namely:
- Financing decisions and their impact on a company's capital structure and methods to optimise the company's gearing levels in terms of the overall cost of capital
- Corporate investment decisions and the fundamental tools for their analysis
- The selection of a suitable dividend policy including the underlying theoretical viewponts on the selection and impact of such policies to both shareholders and the firm
Contact hours per student per year
- Lectures: 44 hours
- Tutorials: 22 hours
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