Financial Analysis (IBEM) (P02227)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : MSE-P-P02227

To enable the participant to assess corporate financial health and performance through an understanding of strategy and business opportunity gained through published financial statements as the entry point for the participant's engagement with the corporation.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : Accounting and Financial Management P01734

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Common Courses (Management School and Economics), (Management School and Economics, Schedule H)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

? Other Required Attendance : 1 hour(s) per week for 1 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding:
At the end of this course, the student should be able to analyse a set of financial statements in conjunction with an annual report, identifying the key business issues so as to advise either investors or management on the financial performance and prospects for the business.
Cognitive Skills:
The course deepens and develops the numerical skills, analytical skills and skills of synthesis and presentation, the foundations of which are provided by the core course in Accounting and Financial Management.
Key Skills:
On completion of the course, students should be able to give a presentation and/or written report on a company, based on its Annual Report and Accounts.

Assessment Information

Assessment is in two parts: 30% of the total assessment is given to an individual assignment, in the form of a 2500 word written report analysing the performance and prospects of a significant company based in an emerging market (the home country). Students will be expected to research the governance ‘culture’ in the chosen home country and comment upon the reliability of its financial statements as a risk factor in its evaluation. Additional sessions will be held to provide guidance to the students on how to go about this exercise. 70% of the total assessment is given to an unseen written examination which takes the form of an individual report analysing a business on the basis of excerpts from its annual report and accounts.