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Offerings
DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2020-ONGOING
DUBAI-ISC-TMD-INT-2018-2019
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2020-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2018-2018
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Learning outcomes
1.
Appreciate that trends in the financial and economic environment affect business and financial success and enhance the need for numeracy, financial literacy and planning.
2.
Explain the time value of money concept and use your financial calculator to solve time value of money problems.
3.
Value bonds, debentures, preference shares and ordinary shares.
4.
Organise data and construct and interpret visual displays of data relevant to particular situations.
5.
Input data and use Excel to generate summary statistics.
6.
Interpret probabilities.
7.
Generate scatterplots and related statistics using Excel and interpret the results.
8.
Explain issues of information asymmetry in relation to financial structure, credit markets, and venture capital firms.
Assessments
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Additional information
Unit content:• To provide all students with opportunities to develop good work habits individually and in groups.
• To enable students to understand the relevance of mathematics in financial decision making.
• To equip students with required mathematical and numeracy skills to define and solve problems in a business context.