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Postgraduate Course: Corporate Reporting Analysis (CMSE11622)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeSandwich AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThe course aims to empower students with essential skills to discern business opportunities and risks embedded in corporate financial and non-financial reports. Through critical analyses, students will evaluate the firm's financial performance and evaluate its long-term value.
Course description Students will learn to extract necessary information from corporate annual reports to understand business opportunities and risks and critically evaluate corporate strategies. Students will then study how to calculate, interpret, and use financial ratios in different scenarios.

Outline Content

-Corporate Reporting Framework

-Business Environment & Strategy Reporting

-Risk Reporting

-Financial Reporting

-Application of Financial Ratios

Student Learning Experience:

Tutorial/seminar hours represent the total live hours a student can expect to receive on this course. These hours may be delivered in tutorial/seminar, lecture, workshop or other interactive whole class or small group format.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Block 1 (Sem 1)
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 88 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 100% Project report (Individal) - Assesses all course Learning Outcomes
Feedback Formative: Feedback will be provided throughout the course.

Summative: Feedback will be provided on assessment within agreed deadlines.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Understand the construction of corporate reporting.
  2. Critically evaluate business opportunities and risks through corporate reporting analysis.
  3. Analyse corporate financial performance in real cases.
Reading List
Core text:

Palepu K., P. Healy, and E. Peek, Business Analysis & Valuation: IFRS Standards edition, 6th edition. Publisher: Cengage Learning, ISBN: 9781473779099.

Supplementary reading:

Peter Atrill & Eddie McLaney, Accounting and Finance for Non-Specialists, 10th edition. Publisher: Pearson, ISBN: 9781292135601.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Knowledge and Understanding

After completing this course, students should be able to:

Demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of contemporary organisational disciplines; comprehend the role of business within the contemporary world; and critically evaluate and synthesise primary
and secondary research and sources of evidence in order to make, and present, well informed and transparent organisation-related decisions, which have a positive global impact.

Cognitive Skills

After completing this course, students should be able to:

Be self-motivated; curious; show initiative; set, achieve and surpass goals; as well as demonstrating adaptability, capable of handling complexity and ambiguity, with a willingness to learn; as well as being able to demonstrate the use digital and other tools to carry out tasks effectively, productively, and with attention to quality.
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Contacts
Course organiserDr Eleni Chatzivgeri
Tel: (0131 6)50 8074
Email: Eleni.Chatzivgeri@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Aoife McDonald
Tel: (0131 6)50 8074
Email: Aoife.McDonald@ed.ac.uk
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