Corporate Finance and Investment

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• bond and stock valuation, and raising capital through debt and equity financing;
• convertible bonds and their uses, and asset securitisation.
• capital structure and the associated cost of capital;
• companies, their sources of finance, and sustainable finance;
• present and future values, and their uses;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop logical and concise arguments and engage in independent enquiry grounded in appropriate source material.
• analyse critically theoretical material and case study evidence on the basis of an informed knowledge;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Develop clear logical thinking;
• Compose and communicate ideas effectively

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Peer assessment

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Peer and self-assessment method will be used to help students assess their understanding; exercises, which students will be recommended to attempt by themselves, will be available in lectures or on online blackboard and the answer is available one week after.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.