2017/18 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS5832M Corporate Finance

10 creditsClass Size: 44

Module manager: Dr. Iain Clacher
Email: ic@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

Corporate Finance provides a critical understanding of the key theoretical principles for effective financial decision making in a corporate enterprise and develop a practical understanding of the use of financial theory in business and financial markets. The module relates theory to current corporate business practice and requires you to be able to confidently use, interpret and manipulate financial formulas and numerical data. It provides a basis for further study of more specialist modules in finance.

Objectives

The module aims to provide a critical appreciation of the fundamental concepts in corporate finance as a basis for further study of more specialist aspects of finance and financial markets. Specifically, it will give students critical knowledge of the key theoretical principles for effective financial decision making in a corporate enterprise and the use of financial theory in business and financial markets and the skills to apply that knowledge to consider specific financial decisions.

Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to critically evaluate:
- key theories of corporate finance in relation to risk, investment appraisal and corporate financing decisions
- corporate finance theories to the financial management process within corporate enterprises
- problems encountered by corporate financial managers

Skills outcomes
Upon completion of this module students will be able to:
Transferable
- Competently apply numerical and statistical skills to interrogate financial and other numerical data
- Extract relevant information from structured scenarios and data to identify problems and define solutions
- Deploy advanced written communication and critical thinking skills

Subject Specific
- Deploy knowledge of current theory and appropriate analytical tools to solve more advanced financial problems
- Apply core knowledge of corporate finance theory and numeracy skills and techniques in a range of scenarios

Syllabus

Indicative content
Corporate Financial Objectives and Agency Theory
Time value of money and Valuation
Capital Investment Decisions
Risk, Return and the Capital Asset Pricing Model
The Cost of Capital
The Capital Structure Decisions
The Payout Policy Decisions
The Efficient Market Hypothesis

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Workshop	3	8.00	24.00
Private study hours			76.00
Total Contact hours			24.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	3,000 word report on the recent financial performance of a specified UK-listed company	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The resit for this module will be 100% by coursework

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 30/01/2018

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