Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Financial Management

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM4141	City Campus	Postgraduate	660H Law	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2011, Spring2011, Sem 2 2012, Spring2012, Sem 2 2013, Spring2013, Sem 1 2014, Sem 2 2014, Sem 1 2015, Sem 2 2015, Sem 1 2016, Sem 2 2016, Sem 2 2017, Sem 2 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 2 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 1 2025
BUSM4142	RMIT University Vietnam	Postgraduate	660H Law	Face-to-Face	Viet2 2011, Viet3 2016, Viet3 2017, Viet1 2019, Viet1 2020
BUSM4143	RMIT Vietnam Hanoi Campus	Postgraduate	660H Law	Face-to-Face	Viet3 2019
BUSM4144	Open Learning Australia	Non Award	660H Law	Distance / Correspondence	OUAS1PG19, OUAS2PG19, OUAS1PG20, OUAS2PG20, OUAS1PG21, OUAS1PG22, OUAS1PG23

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
BUSM4340	Mandarin Oriental Hotel HK	Postgraduate	660H Law	Face-to-Face	PGRDFlex24 (MOHG)
BUSM4340	Mandarin Oriental Hotel HK	Postgraduate	660H Law	Internet	PGRDFx2020 (MOHG)

Course Coordinator: Steven Li

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 1445

Course Coordinator Email: steven.li@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: Building 80

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Required Prior Study
050937 - Design Thinking for Business (Executive) (BUSM4519/BUSM4520 or equivalent course code)

Course Description

Financial managers face three types of key decisions: what investments should be made, how investments should be financed and what dividend policy should a firm take. This course will develop a framework for analysing a firm’s investment, financing and dividend policy decisions, providing concepts and analytical tools that are based on the fundamental principles of modern financial theory.
You will examine financial markets and the key financial tools used in managing organisations. You will investigate financial mathematic techniques, the valuation of debt and equity securities, corporate capital budgeting, risk and diversification, the efficient market hypothesis, weighted average cost of capital, capital structure theory and dividend policy.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

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On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

1. Apply design thinking to investment and financing problems in order to develop financial solutions.
2. Apply research principles and methods to design innovative financial management options and solutions for, and make reasoned judgments about, problems and issues in contemporary business practice.
3. Select, communicate and advocate desirable solutions that will address investment and financing problems.
4. Synthesis and apply a contemporary business finance knowledge, accepting the importance of ongoing continuous learning.

Overview of Learning Activities

In this course you will be encouraged to be an active learner. Your learning will be supported through various in-class and online activities comprising individual and group work. These may include quizzes; assignments; prescribed readings; sourcing, researching and analysing specific information; solving problems; conducting presentations; producing written work and collaborating with peers on set tasks or projects.
 

Overview of Learning Resources

Canvas is RMIT University's Learning Management System. Canvas is a flexible online system which will provide you with an engaging and exciting learning experience as part of your studies with us. The Canvas platform will be the primary site for you to gain access to all the resources designed to support your learning in this course. Your Canvas portal can accessed by logging into the following RMIT page: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students

Overview of Assessment

The assessment tasks, their weighting and the course learning outcomes to which they are aligned are as follows:

Assessment Task 1: 20%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3, 4 

Assessment Task 2: 30%
Linked CLOs: 3, 4

Assessment Task 3: 50%
Linked CLOs: 1, 2, 3

Feedback will be provided throughout the semester in class and/or in online forums through individual and group feedback on practical exercises and by individual consultation.