Overview

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Offerings

DUBAI-ISC-TJD-FACE2FACE-2026-2026
DUBAI-ISC-TMD-FACE2FACE-2025-2025
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-FACE2FACE-2026-2026
DUBAI-ISC-TSD-INT-2024-2024
MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2019-2024
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2019-2024
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

Other learning activities

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Learning activities

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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 the time value of money concept and solve time value of money problems.

3.

Value bonds, debentures, preference shares and ordinary shares.

4.

Organise, construct and interpret visual displays of data.

5.

Use Excel to generate summary statistics and interpret the results.

6.

Interpret probabilities, including probabilities with normal random variables.

7.

Generate scatterplots and related statistics using Excel and interpret the results.

8.

Explain issues of information asymmetry in financial contexts

Assessments

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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
  • Valuation of bonds, debentures, preference and ordinary shares
  • Visualisation of data
  • Numerical descriptive statistics
  • Interpretation of probabilities and normal distribution
  • Regression and correlation
  • Issues of Information Asymmetry: Adverse selection and moral hazard