Overview:
- Credits:
- 5.0
- Level:
- 4
- Semester:
- Spring
- Subject:
- Finance
- School:
- Business
- Coordinator:
- Assoc Professor Paul Ryan
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Curricular information is subject to change
On successful completion of this module you will:
• Be able to contribute to and develop business cases in financial terms
• Appreciate the key distinction between corporate profitability and cashflow and the consequent implications for long- term value creation
• Understand the linkages between managerial decision making and corporate financial performance (including reference to discounted cashflow analysis and economic profit)
• Identify and decide on the optimal mix of long term financing options, conditional on the risk profile of the company, its stage in the industry life cycle, its degree of operational gearing, and other important factors
• Understand the principles associated with short- term and long- term financial planning and the factors driving the magnitude of funding required to finance company operations
• Understand the importance of actively managing a firm’s operating cash cycle in a cash constrained environment
Student Effort Type | Hours |
---|---|
Lectures | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities | 50 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 51 |
Total | 125 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Group Project: Financial analysis of a selection of companies | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 35 |
Assignment: Individual learning journal | Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 30 |
Assignment: Individual open book take home project |
Throughout the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 35 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
---|---|
Summer | Yes - 2 Hour |
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Written feedback provided on group project 20 days after submission
Name | Role |
---|---|
Ms Roisin O'Loughlin | Tutor |