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Postgraduate Course: Corporate Finance and Accounting (CMSE11095)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits15
Home subject areaCommon Courses (Management School) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis course provides an introduction to the core concepts and skills in corporate finance and financial accounting. The corporate finance section considers the main financial decisions facing a company, reviews current academic thinking on how these decisions are made, and introduces analytical tools that can assist in financial decision-making. The accounting section explains what the accounting information produced by companies means, and presents certain techniques of analysing those numbers for the purpose of understanding what is going on in the company, and what its prospects are. The emphasis is on mainstream ideas and techniques at the level of a good textbook, with use of numerical examples to reinforce understanding. We shall also refer to research findings as appropriate.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed
Co-requisites
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-requisitesBusiness School Postgraduate Students Only
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?No
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 16/09/2013
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 150 ( Lecture Hours 22, Summative Assessment Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 122 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 80 %, Coursework 20 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)Corporate Finance and Accounting2:00
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Building block Skills
* Understand the core concepts and techniques in corporate finance
* Understand the core concepts and techniques in financial accounting
* Be familiar with the key financial decisions facing a company and with the main ideas in academic finance about how those decisions are made
* Be able to conduct discounted cash flow analysis and estimate a company's cost of capital
* Be able to carry out some types of analysis of accounting information

Advanced topics and special interest
* Students will be introduced to the empirical academic research on certain of the topics

Intellectual skills and personal development
Cognitive skills
* Be able to follow complex lines of argument
* Be able to write answers to essay-style questions
* Be able to conduct certain subject-specific types of numerical analysis

Key skills
On completion of the assessed course work (a class exam) students should:
* Have an understanding of their progress so far and of areas that need further work
* Have consolidated their knowledge of the subject up to the date of the class exam

Subject specific /career skills
On completion of the course, students should have a textbook-level knowledge of the key topics in corporate finance and accounting. This will be useful for the courses in the second semester, and is seen by employers as part of the core body of knowledge of a someone who has studied finance.
Assessment Information
Class presentations (20%). The class presentations are after reading week, just over half way through the semester.

Final exam (80%). The final exam is at the end of the fisrt semester (date to be announced). It lasts for two hours, and consists of six questions, of which you should answer three. The exam will be a mixture of essay-style and numerical questions
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
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Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsCFA
Contacts
Course organiserProf Seth Armitage
Tel:
Email: Seth.Armitage@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Stephen Graham
Tel: (0131 6)50 8071
Email: Stephen.Graham@ed.ac.uk
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