Postgraduate Course: Financial Analysis (CMSE11108)
Course Outline
| School | Business School |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 15 |
ECTS Credits | 7.5 |
| Summary | The course is concerned with introducing students to the practice and theory of financial statement analysis. The course itself brings together elements of financial accounting and financial ratio analysis; corporate strategy analysis, market and industry analysis and techniques of equity valuation to enable students to understand how individual businesses function within the constrained market environment. |
| Course description |
A practice oriented course, to enable students to critically analyse the performance, prospects and valuation of a corporate business entity.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Accounting and Financial Management (CMSE11104)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | For Business School PG students only, or by special permission of the School. Please contact the course secretary. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2020/21, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
150
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Lecture Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 3,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
127 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework 100% |
| Feedback |
Students are encouraged to ask questions - this enables students to test their own understanding of concepts and techniques.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Have a critical understanding of accounting ratio analysis
- Understand the relationship between corporate strategy and corporate performance
- Be able to undertake a financial analysis of a corporate body
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Reading List
Technical Background Reading
Krishna Palepu, Paul Healey and Erik Peek, Business Analysis and Valuation IFRS Edition, CENGAGE Learning, 4th Edition, 2016.
General Background Reading
John Kay, The Long and the Short of it: A guide to finance and investment for normally intelligent people who aren't in the industry, Profile Books, 2016.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
For those that choose to fully engage with the conceptual underpinning of this course they will find the course offers both significant challenge at both the intellectual and practical levels.
The course requires students to extract and construct information from several different analysis tasks and then to synthesise a coherent and sound narrative all of which helps to develop improved cognitive, communication and group-work skills. However, the work load on individuals is significant and all students must be able to work autonomously on the group-assigned tasks.
The various analysis tasks requires students to undertake significant critical and logical (inductive logic) analysis. Students will construct computerised valuation and accounting models and will develop their IT and their numeracy skills. Working in groups fosters communication and management skills. |
| Keywords | MGMT-FA |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tom Brown
Tel: (0131 6)50 8333
Email: T.Brown@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Fionna Ogilvie
Tel: (0131 6)51 3028
Email: Fionna.Ogilvie@ed.ac.uk |
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