FINANCE ECOSYSTEMS & TECHNOLOGY (4 SCU)

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to understand the financial market ecosystems in Australasia; describe the characteristics of stakeholders, players, and regulatory bodies in the region; explain different types of financial instruments and business systems that are currently used; apply basic financial mathematics to financial problem solving; analyze financial instruments and apply valuation techniques to financial instruments; and analyze the participants, operations, and characteristics of the equity, bond, futures, and options market.

Topics

This course focuses on financial decision-making processes leading to a company’s value creation. This course gives basic knowledge of a financial statement analysis, mathematics of finance, a short-run and long-run financial analysis, and value creation. Specifically, this course will cover topics of financial performance analysis, time value of money, risk return trade-off in financial decision making, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, working capital management, and dividends policy.

Prerequisite(s): None