Postgraduate Course: Financial Analysis (IBEM) (CMSE11036)
Course Outline
| School |
Business School |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Common Courses (Management School) |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
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. |
Course Delivery Information
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.
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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. |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Prof David Hatherly
Tel: (0131 6)50 3789
Email: D.Hatherly@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
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