Postgraduate Course: Entrepreneurial Finance (CMSE11304)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 15 |
ECTS Credits | 7.5 |
| Summary | It is intended to provide students with a deep understanding of issues associated with the financing of innovation, particularly in new and growing ventures. |
| Course description |
This course will provide a comprehensive approach to the analysis of the value creation process in entrepreneurial firms. Entrepreneurial finance is a discipline that studies financial resource mobilisation, resource allocation, risk moderation, optimisation in financial contracting, value creation, and value monetisation within the context of entrepreneurship. This course examines how the activity of entrepreneurial finance can be enhanced via a concentration on value creation and through improved strategic decision-making. It provides participants with the opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of concepts through in-class and between class discussion of and work on real-world cases.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2016/17, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
150
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Lecture Hours 20,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 4,
Summative Assessment Hours 73,
Other Study Hours 50,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
Independent preparatory reading for lectures
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
i) Students will be formed into groups and each group will undertake the analysis of a case organisation, applying the knowledge and understanding and techniques learned in class. The case analysis will be written up as a 2,000 word assignment worth 50% of the overall mark (with 10% of the overall mark as a peer participation grade, written 40%).
ii) Each student will be required to complete an individual report based on the analysis of the financing of a company and interpretation of its financial history. The report will be 2,000 word in length, accounting for 50 % of the overall course marks. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Analyse critically an organisation's financial status as a value creation process
- Analyse and discuss critically how value creation is not a one-off activity, but rather a continuous cycle of incremental improvements across a wide range of business activities;
- Understand and discuss critically how entrepreneurial value creation can be described in four comprehensive stages: value creation, value measurement, value enhancement, and value realisation;
- Critically assess how strategic management, financial management, and entrepreneurship combine to simultaneously examine business topics from different perspectives to better encapsulate actual entrepreneurial practices.
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Reading List
| Klonowski, D (2014) Strategic Entrepreneurial Finance: From Value Creation to Realization, Routledge. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Cognitive and Subject Specific Skills:
-Relate entrepreneurial finance to broader concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation covered in other courses;
-Establish how strategic deliberations maximise the entrepreneurial firm¿s chances of making the right business decisions for the future, enable the firm to manage its available financial and non-financial resources in the most optimal manner, and ensure that the necessary capital is secured to progress the development of the firm to its desired development level;
-Integrate the concepts discussed in the course and relate them to real-world organisational scenarios.
Transferable Skills:
-Successfully undertake independent reading and enquiry;
-Articulate convincing arguments in writing;
-Engage in active debate about key topics and issues in case analysis;
-Analyse and interpret company financial histories. |
| Keywords | EI-EF |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Alessandro Rosiello
Tel: (0131 6)50 8246
Email: Alessandro.Rosiello@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Yvonne Sanderson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5333
Email: Yvonne.Sanderson@ed.ac.uk |
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