Postgraduate Course: Accounting and Financial Management (CMSE11104)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 15 |
| Home subject area | Common Courses (Management School) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This is an introductory course on accounting and finance with a particular emphasis on understanding accounting information and financial management. Its objective is to provide the accounting and financial background desirable for any intending business manager, and an introduction to those analytical tools necessary to understand the financial management of an organisation and the interrelationship between the organisation's accounting results, financing and valuation. Specifically we focus on the following topics: the accounting process, basic accounting statements and their interpretation, capital investment decisions, firm valuation, cost of capital, dividend policy and capital structure. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
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| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | For Business School PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Please contact the course secretary. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding:
On completion of the course students will:
* Understand basic accounts and appreciate their relationship to the performance, financing and valuation of a company.
* Recognise how accounts are a discipline in the process of valuation and performance measurement and form the basis of control and accountability.
* Be able to review financial statements and evaluate the performance of a firm.
* Appreciate how projects are evaluated using the idea of net present value both with and without uncertainty and how to use the idea of the weighted average cost of capital.
* Understand the role of risk in the pricing of assets and its role in the markets for equities and bonds.
* Learn how corporations raise capital and the valuation effects of capital structure decisions and dividend policy.
* Appreciate the role efficient capital markets play in effecting the value of traded securities and the implication of market efficiency for financial management.
Cognitive Skills:
On completion of the course students should have demonstrated that they are able to:
* Understand the basic concepts underlying accounting and finance.
* Critically appraise issues related to the problems involved in evaluating projects and in assessing the cost of capital.
* Appreciate the consequences for managers of capital structure and dividend policy and the impact of market efficiency upon shareholder value
Key Skills:
On completion of the assessed course work students should be able to:
* Be able to understand how the basic ideas and tools of accounting and finance work and how managers can use them.
* Critically appraise issues that affect firm valuation and the ability of firms to raise capital in financial markets. |
Assessment Information
Assignment 30%
Exam 70% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Transferable skills |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | AFM |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Yew-Ming Chia
Tel: (0131 6)51 3024
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Course secretary | Miss Rachel Allan
Tel: (0131 6)51 3757
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