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Offerings
DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2022-2022
DUBAI-ISC-TJD-INT-2024-2024
DUBAI-ISC-TMD-INT-2023-2023
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2022-2022
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2024-2024
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Learning outcomes
1.
Discuss trends in the financial and economic environment that affect business and financial success and enhance the need for numeracy, financial literacy and planning.
2.
Explain and apply financial mathematical techniques to solve real world financial problems that affect individuals and businesses.
3.
Use technology to summarise, display and interpret data in a business context, and use this data to communicate financial information.
4.
Explain the ethical implications of information asymmetry in relation to financial structure, credit markets, and venture capital firms.
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Additional information
Unit content:
Key topics to be covered include:
- Trends in the financial and economic environment and how they affect business and financial success
- Financial literacy and planning for business and personal finances
- Time value of Money
- Solving time value of money problems
- Valuations of bonds, debentures, preference and ordinary shares
- Summarising, displaying and interpreting data
- Asymmetry of Information and the impact on financial structures, credit markets and venture capital firms