This paper covers capital budgeting and working capital management for private and public sector organisations. Three key important questions are answered in this course: What long-term investments should the firm take on? The cost of long-term financing to pay for the investment? How will we manage the everyday financial activities of the firm?

Lectures

The lectures will be delivered on campus (The lecture will be recorded via Panapto and the video will be available on Moodle after the lecture). The students are encouraged to attend the on-campus lectures and use the videos as a tool to review the contents.

Provide quick access to the whys and how of dealing with the three most important questions in finance: Capital Budgeting, Capital Structure, and Working Capital Management. Provide easy-to-understand information, including equations and examples that can be quickly applied to most problems of corporate finance.

Tutorials

Tutorials start in the 2nd week of B Trimester 2021. All students should attend one tutorial (one hour) per week.

The tutorials will be scheduled on-campus and online (NOTE: Not all the tutorial sections will be available and some sections will be scheduled online. Please refer to Moodle for detailed information). The students need to do their tutorial selection through Moodle. The selection will be open at 8:00 AM on 12 July 2021 and ended at 5:00 pm on 18 July 2021.

The size of any tutorial group is limited, due to the size of the venue. Once a particular tutorial group has reached this limit, it will no longer be available as an option to other students, so please make your selection as early as possible.

Mobile Phones and Cross Chats

As a courtesy to others, students are strongly urged not to disrupt lecture sessions by using mobile phones and cross-chatting during these sessions. Students are advised to disable their mobile phones during lectures.

Content/Foundational Skill: Both critical-thinking and problem-solving questions will be included in the Assignments, Midterm Test, and Final Test. The critical-thinking questions (i.e., short essay questions) will be evaluated by Communication Skills, Professionalism and Innovation. There is an expectation that students demonstrate academic integrity when they attempt the assignments in this paper. Moreover, referencing academic research articles to answer the questions will be rewarded in terms of marks (But referencing non-academic websites, such as Investopedia, will not have a reward). The design is to motivate students to achieve effective academic reading.

The critical-thinking questions also allow for the evaluation of effective academic reading by students as their answers will demonstrate their understanding of the concepts explored in the paper. And the short essay questions require students to demonstrate their business writing ability. For the problem-solving questions (i.e., calculation questions), students are required to show all their workings. These questions require students to perform calculations on data and then to demonstrate their understandings of the numbers calculated, and thus equip students with numeracy skills/using data.

Note: Typed answers or diagrams copied from the web or Panopto will be marked as zero. Turnitin (or a similar index) shouldn't be > 60%.

Lecture slides, tutorial resources and related teaching materials will be available in Moodle.

Studiosity

MindTap

Cengage App downloadable from Google play provides mobile access to Text book and MindTap support.

The course has 36 (3 X 12) contact hours (lectures and tutorials). The rest of the 150 hours expected workload in this 15-point paper can be distributed as follows: 20 hours to complete the Assignment, 35 hours to prepare for and attend the Midterm Test and 59 hours to prepare for and attend the Final Test.