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Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Introduction to Management Accounting; role and purpose of management accountants (costing, decision making & controls); strategic focus * Cost concepts, cost behaviour, Job Costing (Absorption costing) and costing allocation * Inventory Costing (Variable Costing) and Cost volume profit analysis * Activity based costing and process costing * Budgeting systems * Management accounting systems and information technologies (SAP) * A...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Introduction and unit overview * Mechanics of futures markets * Hedging strategies using futures * Determination of forward and futures prices * Swaps * Mechanics of options markets * Properties of stock options * Option trading strategies * Binomial trees and risk-neutral valuation * Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model * Options on stock indices, currencies and futures * Delta * Exotic options * Derivatives mishaps...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Introduction and overview of the financial system and the role of Banks * Interest rate risk: measurement * Market risk: measurement and the application of Value at Risk * Credit risk: individual loan risk measurement * Credit risk: loan portfolios and concentration risk measurement * Fintech Risk * Credit risk: management techniques * Sovereign risk: measurement and management * Liquidity risk: measurement and management * D...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Investment vehicles * Risk and return * Diversification and portfolio risk * Asset pricing * Market efficiency * Debt securities * Industry analysis * Equity securities * Illiquid investments * Derivative strategies * Performance evaluation Readings summaries: * How Much is a Tulip Worth? * Investor Flows and the Assessed Performance of Open-End Mutual Funds * Summary Edition Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yea...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * The auditing and assurance environment, understanding the importance of auditor independence and the use of professional scepticism * Planning the audit and understanding the concept of "business risk" * Introduction to the concept and importance of internal controls * Understanding audit risk assessment and the linkage to key accounts and management's financial statement assertions * Audit evidence collection linked to priorit...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Introduction to FSA and business strategy analysis * Accounting analysis and earnings management * Quality of accounting information, measurement and adjustments * Financial analysis * Ratio analysis * Prospective analysis * Equity valuation/security analysis * Credit analysis and distress prediction * Financial policy and cost of capital * Mergers and acquisition (M&A) * Initial public offerings (IPOs) * Communication and ...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Overview of the financial system * Money and the payment system; understanding interest rates * The behaviour of interest rates. Traditional view; modern central banking view * Risk, the term structure of interest rates, commercial banking * The money supply process; traditional and modern views * Inflation targeting, contrasted with monetary targeting * The global financial crisis * The current policy environment: global * Th...

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 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

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...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Institutional and Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting * Accounting for Assets – Property, Plant & Equipment * Accounting for Assets – Intangible Assets * Accounting for Leases * The Choice of Accounting Methods; Ethics * Contingent Liabilities and Provisions * Accounting for Employee Benefits * Accounting for Income Tax * Accounting for Financial Instruments * Equity * Accounting for the Extractive Industries *...

Notes cover content for entire semester Topics covered: * Trading basics * The trading industry * Large traders and market impact costs * Dealer markets * How do investors behave? * What do we want from markets? * Evaluating markets and investments * Arbitrage * What's been happening in markets? * Distressed markets * Market dislocations Includes lecture notes, readings and the textbook