Module code: AFE7015-A
Foundations of finance introduces students to fundamental concepts in finance and investment.
It equips students with essential knowledge and skills to analyze and solve complex financial problems arising in a business environment. The importance of sustainable development in finance is also addressed. Although the class is designed so that the concepts and methods are explained in a corporate finance setting these concepts and methods can also be applied to more general financial decision making.
The objective of corporate finance and of financial managers, the financial sustainability of the business and of investments; the time value of money; valuing bonds and shares; valuation of companies (both quoted and unquoted); fundamentals of capital budgeting; analysis of investment decisions; risk and capital budgeting; cost of capital; introduction to options.
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