University of Sydney (USYD )

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Introduction to macroeconomics * Measuring macroeconomic performance: output, the price level, savings, investment and wealth, wages, employment and the labour market * An introduction to short-term economic fluctuations * Macroeconomics in the short-run: the basic Keynesian model * Fiscal policy * Money, prices and the Reserve Bank, monetary policy and the economy * Aggregate demand and aggregate supply * Macroeconomic policy ...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Consolidation and the concept of control * Principles of consolidation and the consolidation process * Fair value adjustments and tax effect accounting * Intra-group transactions (borrowing and inventory) * Intra-group transactions (non-current assets) * Partly owned subsidiaries: non-controlling interest * Segments and related party disclosures * Accounting for associates and joint ventures – the equity method * Joint Opera...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Introduction & Course Overview Revision of Using the NPV rule * Risk and the Cost of Capital Dealing with Risk in Capital Budgeting Certainty Equivalents * Capital Budgeting: Project Analysis Evaluating Projects Tools for Uncertainty * Options and Corporate Finance * Real Options * Agency Problems, Performance measurement and Signalling * An Overview of Corporate Financing How Corporations Issue Securities * Capital Structure T...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Residence and Source * Concepts of Income - Income from personal services, including an overview of FBT * Concepts of Income - Income from property and business * Capital Gains Tax * General Deductions * Specific Deductions * Tax Accounting * Tax Avoidance Includes lecture notes, cases and the textbook

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * IS Introduction * Business Processes * Competitive Advantage * Databases and Information * Data Modeling (ERD) * BIS Ethics Issues * Business Process Management * Process Business Modeling (BPMN) * Digital Commerce * Business Intelligence * Social Media and Collaboration

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Introduction to GAAP and revision of the accounting information system * Accrual accounting concepts * Recording, analysing, managing and reporting merchandising operations * Accounting subsystems * Recording, analysing, managing and reporting receivables * Recording, analysing, managing and reporting non-current assets * Recording, analysing, managing and reporting liabilities * Recording, analysing, managing and reporting equ...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Individual differences: cognitive ability, personality, and emotional intelligence * Motivation and goal-setting * Career goals, values, and ethics * Diversity and culture * Team and group processes * Managing perceptions and conflict * Leadership, power and influence * Communication and feedback * Career sustainability: managing relationships and stress Readings covered: * Upsides to Dark and Downsides to Bright Personali...

Covers all content from entire semester Topics covered: * Gains from Trade * Production and Costs * Supply * Demand * Equilibrium and welfare * Elasticity * Perfectly competitive markets * Pricing market with power I and II * Strategic Interaction and Business Strategy I and II * Market interventions: price regulation, taxes and subsidies * Market failures: Public goods and externalities * GDP and Business Cycles * Employment and Inflation * Budget Policy and Monetary Policy ...

Covers topics for entire semester * Introduction to Corporations Law; the Characteristics of Corporations * Incorporation and the Corporate Veil * Pre-incorporation contracts, Promoters, and Directors * Company Constitutions; Liability in Contract * Membership and Shareholding * Securities Markets * Directors' Duties - Best Interest and Proper Purpose * Directors' Duties - Conflicts of Interests, Care and Diligence * Consequences of Breaches of Duties * Companies' legal rights aga...

Covers entire content during semester Topics include: * Introduction to Finance and Financial Markets * A Modern Financial System * Financial Mathematics * Valuation of Stocks and Bonds * Capital Budgeting - I * Capital Budgeting - II * Risk and Return * Capital Asset Pricing Model * Company Cost of Capital * Equity Capital Markets * Asset Market Efficiency and Behavioural Finance * Business Ethics Includes lecture slides and textbook